But Donald Logan, the chairman of Time Warner's media and communications group, which includes AOL, said the company was committed to keeping the online unit.

Diffbot's customers include AOL, Onswipe and Springpad.

Early customers for VPchat included AOL and Excite.

Meanwhile, Live 8's corporate sponsors included Nokia and AOL (which has reruns of some concerts at www.aolmusic.com).

Its advertisers include AOL, T-Mobile and Dell, among others.

Until 2007, American companies were the company's main customers; these included AOL and Knowledge Networks.

Affiliates include AOL, Blockbuster, RealNetworks, casino and credit card offers, and others.

The man was caught with the assistance of the Internet providers involved, which included AOL and Hotmail.

Failed picks included AOL after its takeover of Time Warner, Excite@Home, and drugstore.com.

Mr. McAllister, whose background is in packaged-goods marketing, found software that checked several e-mail accounts at once but nothing that included AOL.