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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The Apple Real Estate Extravaganza continues, Apple apparently snagging a a former chip fab in North San Jose. The deal reportedly went through last week and saw Apple pay $18.2 million for the 70,000 square foot building. Prior to the purchase, the plant had been a manufacturing plant for semiconductor company Maxim Integrated Products. The […]