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AOL, Microsoft get wireless.

By Tedesco, Richard
Publication: Broadcasting & Cable
Date: Monday, March 6 2000

Competing cyberspace powers are both angling to go anywhere and everywhere

Webheads won't have to be plugged in to access AOL or MSN anymore.

America Online struck a series of deals to deliver AOL content wirelessly, while Microsoft mirrored its rival's moves in plans to deliver MSN content and music via its Windows Media Player the same way.

The two companies may be based on opposite coasts, but they're moving in the same strategic direction. And the Redmond, Wash., software behemoth even seems to have adapted the "AOL Anywhere" mantra of the Du

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