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AOL hires Microsoft manager

Michael Wehrs to be chief technical evangelist for AOL wireless group.

Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
Elinor Mills

Time Warner's AOL has hired a Microsoft manager as chief technical evangelist for AOL's wireless group, AOL said on Tuesday. Michael Wehrs was director of business and industry development at Microsoft, and was responsible for driving industry adoption of the company's products, including its next-generation Windows Vista operating system. At AOL he will serve as technical visionary, industry spokesman and standards and public representative for the company's wireless platform and embedded products.