National Geographic: Murdoch Strikes!

What a sad, sad end to what was an amazing institution....

National Geographic Society sets biggest layoff in its history

The National Geographic Society of Washington will lay off about 180 of its 2,000 employees in a cost-cutting move that follows the sale of its famous magazine and other assets to a company controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

The reduction, the largest in the organization’s 127-year history, appears to affect almost every department of the nonprofit organization, including the magazine, which the society has published since just after its founding in 1888.

The reduction also will affect people who work for the National Geographic Channel, the most profitable part of the organization. Several people in the channel’s fact-checking department, for example, were terminated on Tuesday

(WashingtonPost)

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Apple App Updates downloads

If you go to Macupdate.com, you'll see Apple Messages App 9.0 available, but, when clicking on it, you have to choose "leave macupdate.com" and then the App Store will eventually start up but only for El Capitan. I found this sam behaviour when trying to download the newest Safari. If I go to Apple Software Updates below, none of these updates show. I find this strange.

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For Sale Apple TV 1st Gen 160GB $75

This is the original Apple TV with larger HD. Works perfectly! Comes with all original packing materials, manual, and additional aluminum remote. Happy to deliver in metro GTA or will ship at cost.

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Question about MAIL

How can I have MAIL stay ONLINE.? I have to click "Take all accounts ONLINE" every time I open Mail or read an email.

Thanks

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Apple Has Enough Cash To Buy Every Major Sports Team In The World

That's a lot of dough . . .

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Though Wall St. didn’t seem terribly impressed, Apple last week delivered yet another stellar earnings report. Riding on the back of strong iPhone sales, Apple posted revenue of $51.5 billion and a quarterly profit of $11.1 billion. As Tim Cook noted, “fiscal 2015 was Apple’s most successful year ever.” By the time Apple’s October quarter came to a close, the company found itself sitting on a cash hoard worth $206 billion, a figure that’s higher than the GDP of many countries. With $206 billion, Apple could theoretically afford to give every single person in the United States (assuming a population of 318.8 million) $646, effectively the cost of a brand new iPhone. Even more interesting is that Apple has enough cash to buy every single team from every major sports league in the world. Here’s how the calculations all break down.

More here.

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Original iPhone Version 1 (2g). Can it be reset to factory?

I just bought a 2007 original iPhone. In quite good condition, and a decent battery it seems. It's stuck on the "connect to iTunes graphic", is there any hope to get this back to factory settings? I will only be needing this iPhone to work via wifi, at the most. I really just want to see the original factory icons etc., rather than its current useless state.
Purchased only to add to my collection, as a novelty piece.

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Strange Desktop Occurrence

I keep getting this dialog image showing up on my Desktop until I reboot, but it always returns. Anyone else seeing this? Image attached.

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