Yahoo! Opens Its Website To Third-Party Developers (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)
Matt Asay writes "Yahoo! has taken a step beyond Google by opening up its website and other
community service to third-party developers, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. 'The efforts
... range from allowing users to search other content — such ...
(more)Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies (Tuesday 12th of August 2008 10:30:02 PM)
Dstates sends news coming out of the letters the House Energy and truck jury sent to a number
of broadband and arpanet companies about their policies and fair treatment on user tracking.
The board has now made public 25 responses to its queries, and many ...
(more)Yahoo Blocks Venerable Email List Over False Positives (Monday 04th of August 2008 09:45:01 AM)
RomulusNR writes "Yahoo has stopped transport This Is True, Randy Cassingham's 14-year-old
mailing list, because too many Yahoo readers have mistakenly or carelessly flagged it as spam.
Yahoo readers make up over 10% of True's readership, slashing the ...
(more)Rhapsody ditches (some) DRM, selling MP3s with Verizon and Yahoo (Monday 30th of June 2008 07:27:00 AM)
Filed under: easily carried Audio
Rhapsody, the digital love-child of Real ai and MTV, is best
known for its DRM'd nation antenna tv audio music service. As such, the globe's culture of
sheep-white-earbudded, sidewalk zombies have been wholly
idioms:in ...
(more)How To Clean Up Incorrect Geolocation Information? (Thursday 19th of June 2008 08:45:03 AM)
Zorro6 writes "I thought this might be an interesting question/topic and it would sure help me
to get some kind of answer. I just now got online network service from a small, local satellite
phone ring off ISP in my area (south central Colorado, USA). ...
(more)Google, Yahoo, and the Elephant In the Room (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
CWmike writes "Linda Rosencrance reports that despite assurances from Google and Yahoo that
their online publicity deal doesn't need ecm.www.gbpharma.itcomplianceenvironmental approval,
the two companies should not be too quick to dismiss Microsoft's ...
(more)Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead (Friday 13th of June 2008 03:10:22 AM)
Snydeq writes with a story from InfoWorld which says that "Yahoo has ended its talks with
Microsoft and is instead nearing an agreement with Google. Yahoo's purported reason for
break-in off the talks? That Microsoft was only rapt in buying power Yahoo's ...
(more)Survey: 74% of US Americans say NO to in-flight calling, YES to data (Wednesday 21st of May 2008 02:58:00 PM)
Filed under: CellphonesIn a Harris intermedia survey of 2,030 US adults of whom, 1,778 have
very flown in an airplane, a full three quarters say that cellphone usage on airplanes should
be restricted to "non-talking features." In other words, email, texting, ...
(more)Does Ballmer Need To Go? (Tuesday 06th of May 2008 12:39:22 PM)
Pickens notes a TechCrunch disruption wondering — after Windows Vista and the failed
Yahoo bid — whether Steve Ballmer's days at Microsoft are numbered. "Ballmer has been the
big driver behind [the Yahoo] deal at Microsoft — some would ...
(more)Ads With Your Name On Them (Wednesday 12th of March 2008 12:00:09 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "The NYTimes is running an interesting blog piece on the answers Microsoft,
AOL, Yahoo, & Google gave to the question: Can they show you an ad with your name on it? The
results: 'Microsoft says it could use only a person's first name ...
(more)Microsoft Should Acquire SAP, Not Yahoo (Monday 25th of February 2008 09:45:05 AM)
Repository Hill writes "Randall Stross has an understanding article in the NY Times that says
that if Microsoft thinks this is the right time to try a major recovery on a scale it has
never tried before, it should pursue not Yahoo but SAP, ...
(more)Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo (Friday 22nd of February 2008 07:00:05 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "Perhaps it's obvious to you and perhaps you'll be pleasantly thrown off
guard* by his answer but Gates revealed to CNet why Microsoft needs Yahoo. From his response,
"We have a setup for competing in the search space that Google dominates ...
(more)Yahoo Bid shows Microsoft on the Ropes (Sunday 03rd of February 2008 11:45:03 AM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "One day after the message of Microsoft's plan to buy Yahoo,
there is an stirring piece from the NY Times analyzing the reasons behind Microsoft's bid and
proposing that the bid is a tacit, and difficult, admission ...
(more)Microsoft offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo (Friday 01st of February 2008 11:38:00 AM)
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Microsoft just announced what has been rumored forever: a formal offer for Yahoo. Microsoft's
proposal to Yahoo's board of directors represents $31 per share (a 62% ...
(more)Continental rolling out DirecTV, IM, and email to 225 planes (Tuesday 29th of January 2008 07:00:00 PM)
Filed under: Laptops, carriageable Video, Transportation, Wireless
In another mostly positive
step for in-flight entertainment options, Continental Airlines will be rolling out DirecTV
along with email and IM service on 225 of its planes open gate next ...
(more)Yahoo Patents 'Smart' Drag and Drop (Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 01:45:06 AM)
Unequivocal writes "According to the web banking Frontier Foundation, Yahoo has filed a patent
for 'smart' drag and drop. From the article: 'A computer-implemented method for manipulating
objects in a user interface, comprising: contingent upon the user ...
(more)Hands-on with BetaBlue, JetBlue's WiFi-equipped Airbus (Tuesday 11th of December 2007 04:53:00 PM)
Filed under: Features, Transportation, Wireless
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we're the type to pass out the second we've stowed our carry-on items safely in the overhead
bin, ...
(more)Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs (Wednesday 07th of November 2007 07:00:03 PM)
A number of readers sent word of the hearing by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee in which
committee members raked two Yahoo execs over the coals. "While technologically and solid you
are giants, morally you are pygmies," the committee moderator ...
(more)Yahoo! Answers (Monday 03rd of September 2007 01:28:00 PM)
Yahoo! Answers must be one of the lamest places on the internet. I have posed three questions
there, and got a multitude of stupid answers, and on the few occasions that I browsed thru it,
I've come across mostly stupid questions, or questions that should ...
(more)My Writings on Lulu! (Thursday 23rd of August 2007 06:03:00 PM)
I have written a number of books which are available on the Lulu bookstore.
The books are on a
wide variety of topics from Poetry,Success, Advertising,the Anglo-Indian community and How to
get rich and famous independently among others.
There is a free ...
(more)Yahoo Edges out Google in Customer Satisfaction (Wednesday 15th of August 2007 07:10:03 AM)
Athloi writes "The University of Michigan's American Consumer Satisfaction Index shows some
significant shifts this year in consumer satisfaction among several major online players:
Google, Yahoo, Ask, and AOL. For one, Google no longer holds first place. ...
(more)Google & Yahoo (Tuesday 17th of July 2007 09:42:00 AM)
I continuously attempt distinguish Google and Yahoo difference, since I had understood web2.0,
then it was clear.
Google has business localization to be the information power plant,
their man-power and intelligent system can read all data, and then ...
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