AOL-HELL to offer free personal email domains

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AOL not only plans to offer 5GB free online storage space to web users in September, but also free personalized email domains (one per user). According to the press release on Time Warner’s home page, AOL will be giving out free email domains, where you can setup up to 100 aliases to use with your domain. The service will be called the “AOL My eAddress” service, and users will be able to use .com or .net domains to customize their email addresses. This service will apparently tie in with AIM, AIM Pages, and other AOL services. Looks like AOL is trying to integrate all their services and give users one easy way to identify themselves outside of the AOL.com and AIM.com domains. AOL is leading the way with this. Other services out there have a “managed custom domain” area like Gmail and Windows Live. AOL is the first I know of to hand them out. Woot!

http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1224553,00.html

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They are all at it.

There is a Broadband War going on!

In the UK, Talk Talk started the “free” broadband war in June and quickly announced that 340,000 people had signed up for the offer.

They were followed by BSkyB - with new subscribers to Sky Digital able to sign up for its broadband for between £5 and £17.

BT then stepped up their battle for integrated media services with the launch of BT Total Broadband.

Television programmes in England have given much coverage to these stories which can only be good for the consumer - you now have a much wider choice and we need the competition.

In the end it will be only the best that survive.