You have to admit, 20 years is a good run for a messaging protocol. After 20 years, AIM, the AOL Instant Messenger protocol, will be shut down on December 15th, 2017. The announcement was made by Oath, the Frankenstein merger of AOL and Yahoo! created by now-parent company Verizon. AIM, which surfaced from the original […]
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Verizon was able to save even more money following Yahoo’s email hacks. The telecommunications company announced a deal to buy the core business of Yahoo for $4.48 billion —managing to secure a $350 million discount it was pursuing because of two major security breaches, the last of which affected over 1 billion accounts. The deal […]
You pay less if the item you’re buying has a couple of dings on it. Verizon is apparently close to purchasing Yahoo’s Internet properties for roughly $4.8 billion, a price that includes a $250 million discount after the revelation of security breaches at the web company. Sources close to the store cited the discounted price […]
On Monday, Apple released macOS 10.12.1, the first major update to its recently-released macOS 10.12 Sierra operating system. The update, which weighs in around 584 megabytes, includes the following fixes and changes: Fixes: Adds an automatic smart album in Photos for Depth Effect images taken on iPhone 7 Plus. Improves the compatibility of Microsoft Office […]
Well, I say “inadvertently”, but no word on whether it was in fact so, or if it was intentional…or maybe Apple just doesn’t care enough to make sure it was functional for Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite users (granted, Yosemite is still in beta). As it was foretold many months ago by messages from Apple itself, […]