Posts Tagged ‘ aol ’

Flavors.me Heads Into Tumblr Territory With “Follow” Buttons & Plans To Support Content Creation

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Flavors.me Heads Into Tumblr Territory With “Follow” Buttons & Plans To Support Content Creation

Flavors.me , the dead-simple service for building your own personal profile page, is launching a major redesign on Tuesday, with features that position it to take on the blogging juggernaut that is  the Tumblr pageview machine . Among a number of improvements to the service’s tools, user interface and design, the most notable...

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Video: What Is 4G? Ex-TC’er Doug Aamoth Explains It Better Than Anyone Else Could

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Video: What Is 4G? Ex-TC’er Doug Aamoth Explains It Better Than Anyone Else Could

I get asked the same set of questions at least a couple of times each week: What is 4G, anyway? Does “4G” mean the same thing across all of the carriers? I’ve been meaning to do a quick and humorous video explaining the whole mess, but just kept putting it off. I now...

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AOL Authorizes $250 Million Stock Buyback Program After Share Price Falls Off A Cliff

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AOL Authorizes $250 Million Stock Buyback Program After Share Price Falls Off A Cliff

AOL (which, in case you didn’t know, has been the owner of TechCrunch for almost a year now) has announced that its board of directors has given the green light for a stock repurchase program that will allow the company to buy back up to $250 million of its outstanding shares of common...

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Soon, AOL’s AIM Won’t Require A Separate Login To Chat With Contacts In Gmail

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Soon, AOL’s AIM Won’t Require A Separate Login To Chat With Contacts In Gmail

Since 2007, you’ve been able to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM contacts directly from Gmail. You simply login with your AIM account in Gmail and your contacts will populate your gChat list, allowing you to chat with them just like you would your Google...

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I’mOK Wants To Reward Kids For Communicating With Parents On Mobile Phones

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I’mOK Wants To Reward Kids For Communicating With Parents On Mobile Phones

As a teenager, my parents constantly hounded me about where I was going, and when I would return. I didn’t have a cellphone, so communication was limited. Flash forward ten years and although many teenagers have cell phones now, it’s still annoying for kids and teens to constantly communicate with parents and worrisome...

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