All the stories tagged with aol
AOL Dial Up Still A Money Spinner
02/17/2013, Come on now, let us have a show of hands here. How many of you still have a landline at home simply because grandpa lives there and he has absolutely no need for a mobile phone, as he does not [...]
AOL PLAY now for the Kindle Fire
07/24/2012, AOL’s music app, PLAY, has been available on Android and iOS devices for some time now, but not for folks with the Kindle Fire (unless they managed to sideload it of course) and today it has finally arrived. AOL announced [...]
Nokia Announces New App Partnerships at CTIA Wireless
05/08/2012, Today at CTIA Wireless – the show for “all things mobile”, the Finnish mobile manufacturer, Nokia announced a plethora of new and extended application-based partners that are touted to bring leading and exclusive titles to the Lumia smartphone range. These [...]
Microsoft purchases over 800 patents from AOL for $1.056 billion
04/09/2012, Given how many companies are suing each other over alleged patent infringements these days, loading oneself up with a bunch of patents would seem like a good way to protect yourself and your products from potential lawsuits, but also to [...]
AOL Instant Messenger is not shutting down
03/14/2012, Earlier this week there were rumors about AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) shutting down due to AOL getting rid of a whole bunch of workers and leaving only the support staff behind. Well, it looks like those rumors aren’t true. According [...]
AOL Instant Messenger to be shut down?
03/13/2012, According to reports online, it looks AOL might be shutting down its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service. The company has reportedly fired 40 of its AOL staff, leaving only the support staff behind to keep the service running. Apparently the [...]
AOL AIM Gets Updated
11/16/2011, A New version of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has just been released on the web (preview.aim.com), desktop (PC/Mac) and mobile phones. It features significant changes in the user interface. First, the contact list is not that long and monolithic anymore. [...]
Gmail Chat and AIM shake hands
05/20/2011, AOL and Google have reached another level of understanding, taking their instant messaging partnership to a different level by offering complete interoperability among AIM, Gmail and Google Talk. Ever since 2007, Gmail users were able to access their AIM account [...]
AOL Mail is down
01/25/2011, According to the latest reports from CNet, AOL Mail is suffering from some issues that prevent users from logging onto their accounts. When it first started, AOL pointed out that it was a scheduled maintenance that took longer than expected, [...]
AOL Sells ICQ For $187.5m
04/28/2010, Folks who were around during the beginning of instant messaging will remember ICQ, which set the standard for instant messaging back then. AOL acquired Mirabilis, the Israeli-based company who came up with the program, back in 1996 for $407 million, [...]
