Former AOL execs sued for fraud - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 21st May 2008, 12:31

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05...ed-for-fraud/1

Eight former AOL execs - both from before and after the merger with Time Warner - stand accused of inflating advertising revenue.

Gunsmith · 21st May 2008, 12:52

i remember the AOL coffee coasters fondly as i was never short of them.

mutznutz · 21st May 2008, 12:53

500 hours free, then delete your account and use the next one

Awesome!!

Shame they may go down the pan? No

liratheal · 21st May 2008, 13:01

God I hope the company pans it.

Crappy service, crappy software, crappy execs (Apparently).

Cptn-Inafinus · 21st May 2008, 13:30

AOL BROWSER cheesecake!!!

God, I hated that thing with a passion.

I think we still owe AOL about £15 from *Counts on fingers* 7 years ago. That was our very first internet connection. 24.7 Blazing Kbps... I hate living in the country sometimes.

WildThing · 21st May 2008, 13:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gunsmith

i remember the AOL coffee coasters fondly as i was never short of them.

Rofl, made my day!

Mister_X · 21st May 2008, 13:32

+1 for Headline

Mister_X · 21st May 2008, 13:33

+1 for Tagline rather

Bionic-Blob · 21st May 2008, 16:08

god i wish AOL would just die. My grandparents use them and they're always complaining their internet doesn't bloody work right. I mean, it's their fault, we set them up with a fairly decent ISP to begin with then they changed to AOL v_v

Mr_Sinister · 21st May 2008, 16:15

i remember the joke that went something like this
"AOL install our 30 day free trial, as we welled ourselves to your hard drive"

i have always hated AOL

pendragon · 21st May 2008, 18:02

ha.. one of my friends still likes to use the AOL Browser on the internet

...its so last decade

moshpit · 21st May 2008, 18:21

I have Time Warner as my ISP, but AOL is no part of it, thank god. Apparently, some of us don't get the shaft. AOL FTL!

Brett89 · 21st May 2008, 19:03

I used to collect those cds haha. I'm glad I did, I luckily found AOL 4.0 for my old mac to install it on.

Joeymac · 21st May 2008, 19:19

AOL was my ISP until.. errmmm, counts on fingers.. yesterday. Was with them for 10 frickin years, unbelievable. I never had much of a problem with them. But I don't think AOL UK were never as bad as the US side, a couple of months ago they got sold to Carphone Warehouse and then connection speed/reliability took a bit of a nose dive. End of April my phone exchange was up graded to ADSL2 by Be* so now I'm with them. Been ok so far.
When I rang to try and get my MAC code they did the pitchin and begging thing to stay, but they weren't very good. The bloke was going on about 8Mbit vs 24mbit (though he said bytes) {Indian accent} "How fast is that really? 8000 bytes when you blink your eye, that's plenty enough, we have fastest connection, 8"
I found a page with their new customer's deals so I said if they give me a PS3 for free (other deal was a laptop) and offer me the starter prices then I'll stay. Weird, they didn't want my custom any longer... I've asked the same for phone contracts and they never give you new customer deals, they would rather lose your money. Very weird business practices.

21st May 2008, 12:31	#1
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,945	Former AOL execs sued for fraud http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05...ed-for-fraud/1 Eight former AOL execs - both from before and after the merger with Time Warner - stand accused of inflating advertising revenue. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

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Gunsmith my supersonic radar will help me! Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,394	i remember the AOL coffee coasters fondly as i was never short of them. __________________ People who optimise code are wimps. My code knows it's awesome, so it'll take all the time it needs. You can wait in awe

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21st May 2008, 13:01	#4
liratheal Just got a great book on tape Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: High Wycombe, UK Posts: 3,566	God I hope the company pans it. Crappy service, crappy software, crappy execs (Apparently). __________________ Gigabyte MA790FX, X4 9950 Black Edition, 8gb Geil Black Dragon, 2x4870 512mb, Antec TruePower Quattro 850w I game, Do you?

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Cptn-Inafinus Peanut Extrordinare! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Crieff, Scotland Posts: 398	AOL BROWSER cheesecake!!! God, I hated that thing with a passion. I think we still owe AOL about £15 from Counts on fingers 7 years ago. That was our very first internet connection. 24.7 Blazing Kbps... I hate living in the country sometimes. __________________ My Photography A few more of those

21st May 2008, 13:32	#7
Mister_X Chaotic Neutral Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Falkirk Posts: 113	+1 for Headline

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Mister_X Chaotic Neutral Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Falkirk Posts: 113	+1 for Tagline rather

21st May 2008, 16:08	#9
Bionic-Blob Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 72	god i wish AOL would just die. My grandparents use them and they're always complaining their internet doesn't bloody work right. I mean, it's their fault, we set them up with a fairly decent ISP to begin with then they changed to AOL v_v

21st May 2008, 16:15	#10
Mr_Sinister Not Evil, just Bad Join Date: May 2008 Location: UK London Tottenham Posts: 46	i remember the joke that went something like this "AOL install our 30 day free trial, as we welled ourselves to your hard drive" i have always hated AOL

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21st May 2008, 18:21	#12
moshpit Minimodder Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 48	I have Time Warner as my ISP, but AOL is no part of it, thank god. Apparently, some of us don't get the shaft. AOL FTL! __________________ Ci7 860, EVGA P55 SLI, 8Gb DDR3 1600, 2x HIS Radeon HD 5870, Patriot Torqx 128Gb, Corsair TX750, Win7 x64 Ultimate

21st May 2008, 19:03	#13
Brett89 Ultramodder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Grand Forks ND Posts: 1,084	I used to collect those cds haha. I'm glad I did, I luckily found AOL 4.0 for my old mac to install it on. __________________ C2D e6700 @ 3.25 Asus P5n-e SLi, 4GB of OCZ Platinum, Xonar D2, 320 and 160 GB Seagate, eVGA 8800 GTX and an Antec P182. C2D T7500 2.2ghz, 2GB DDR2, Quadro NVS 135M 14.1in screen

21st May 2008, 19:19	#14
Joeymac Multimodder Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 221	AOL was my ISP until.. errmmm, counts on fingers.. yesterday. Was with them for 10 frickin years, unbelievable. I never had much of a problem with them. But I don't think AOL UK were never as bad as the US side, a couple of months ago they got sold to Carphone Warehouse and then connection speed/reliability took a bit of a nose dive. End of April my phone exchange was up graded to ADSL2 by Be* so now I'm with them. Been ok so far. When I rang to try and get my MAC code they did the pitchin and begging thing to stay, but they weren't very good. The bloke was going on about 8Mbit vs 24mbit (though he said bytes) {Indian accent} "How fast is that really? 8000 bytes when you blink your eye, that's plenty enough, we have fastest connection, 8" I found a page with their new customer's deals so I said if they give me a PS3 for free (other deal was a laptop) and offer me the starter prices then I'll stay. Weird, they didn't want my custom any longer... I've asked the same for phone contracts and they never give you new customer deals, they would rather lose your money. Very weird business practices.