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Stepping up the chase for online advertising dollars, AOL will give away e-mail accounts and software now available only to its paying customers in a strategy shift likely to accelerate the decline in its core Internet access business.
Can AOL survive this?AOL will still offer its dial-up accounts at $26 a month for unlimited use, but the company no longer will aggressively market the service. Thats likely to mean the end of promotional CDs and an unspecified number of job cuts in marketing and customer service.