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Yahoo plans jobs cuts as profit falls
News The areas where Yahoo plans to focus its attention, according to Bartz, are its homepage, sports, news, finances, mail, search, mobile and entertainment. Yahoo's first-quarter net income dropped 78 percent annually to $118m as the company struggled...
[April 22, 2009, 8:23]
Anti-spam tricks block the blind
News The increase in use of visual tests -- Yahoo in recent weeks has started springing them on users of its mail service -- comes as Internet service providers and other companies are acknowledging and attacking the spam problem with unprecedented...
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
Microsoft enforces its anti-spam tech
News Also, there are technologies that compete with Sender ID,such as Yahoo's DomainKeys. If your e-mail does not have a Sender ID, Microsoft wants to junk your message. It usually does not require new hardware or software and the most arduous part is...
[June 23, 2005, 9:30]
US Report: Net giants battle for portal dominance
News Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Yahoo! Yahoo has 30 million users, Excite has 20 million, whatever. And in that space Yahoo! Personalisation could make the difference, because once users get hooked on using a service like My Excite or My Yahoo!
[May 11, 1998, 7:32]
Lycos to offer own-brand Web browser
News Just this week, Yahoo! Also, Digital Equipment Corp.s AltaVista, released plans to launch a series of content "zones" that will make the site more competitive with search engines, including Lycos and Yahoo!
[March 2, 1998, 6:00]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News To make his April Fools' joke as believable as possible, Kaplan tweaked the Web address of the fake story so that it looked like it was posted on Yahoo News. In an annual tribute to the gullible, Web sites brought out everything from prank pages to...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Aside: "We have reorganised our instant-messaging business to optimise our ability to leverage the Yahoo network, whether our customers are at work or at home," Lisa Pollock Mann, senior director of Yahoo Messenger, said in a statement.
[June 18, 2004, 18:45]
Handspring cuts VisorPhone price ahead of UK launch
News Other programs on the CD will include Yahoo Messenger, an instant messaging program; JP Mobile One-Touch Mail, an e-mail program; and BugMe Messenger, which allows people to send and receive handwritten notes.
[May 15, 2001, 8:23]
Enemies of the internet named
News RSF also urged IT managers to "get in touch" with Yahoo to talk about its role in the arrest and prosecution of Shi Tao, a journalist sentenced to 10 years' hard labour after Yahoo turned his email records over to the Chinese authorities.
[November 8, 2006, 13:09]
Spymac gives away 1GB of email storage
News The launch could signal changes to the free email business Yahoo and Microsoft's Hotmail dominate. Yahoo subscribers, for example, get 100 megabytes of storage -- 10 times less than Spymac's free 1GB -- for $50.
[April 6, 2004, 10:10]
PeopleSoft climbs aboard the IM bandwagon
News Eager to profit from the growing corporate use of instant messaging (IM), PeopleSoft plans to integrate IM features from IBM, Microsoft and Yahoo into its business applications. Internet services such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo that spearheaded the...
[March 14, 2003, 13:46]
Are portal sites losing their magic?
News Nielsen//NetRatings Inc.which measures Internet audiences and traffic, says that the growth of portals such as Yahoo! Led by Yahoo! most of the portal sites evolved from search engines to full-featured services including news and information...
[July 5, 1999, 8:44]
Google shares plunge after growth warning
News And Yahoo and Microsoft are nipping at its heels. The company, along with Yahoo and MSN, has been blasted by members of Congress over cooperation with China's censorship policies. Dependence on online ads From AdWords on search results to ads...
[March 1, 2006, 9:30]
Google makes IM/VoIP play
News Google has launched an instant-messaging (IM) program that allows text chat and computer-to-computer voice connections, a move that highlights the search giant's increasing competition with Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online.
[August 24, 2005, 9:15]
Microsoft denies flaw in Vista
News Windows Mail Client — the Vista replacement to Outlook — will block the worms, but businesses running third-party email clients such as Lotus Notes, or webmail such as Yahoo or GoogleMail, could be vulnerable to social-engineering attacks.
[December 4, 2006, 13:16]
Arrest made in PairGain stock scam
News According to prosecutors, Hoke also allegedly posted a bogus e-mail message about PairGain under the subject line "Buyout News" on a financial news message board operated by Yahoo! The complaint alleges Hoke used a free Web page service operated by...
[April 16, 1999, 9:32]
Execs warned: Don't ignore spam menace
News Yahoo and Cisco have both created email systems that use digital signatures to verify the sender's authenticity, called "DomainKeys" and "Identified Internet Mail", respectively. Some panel participants, such as Brad Garlinghouse, vice-president of...
[December 3, 2004, 14:15]
Norton AntiVirus 2003 review
Reviews Surprisingly, however, NAV's default settings don't automatically protect instant messengers; instead, you'll have to delve into the Options menu to activate this feature, which scans file downloads in AOL, MSN and Yahoo IM applications.
[September 10, 2002, 7:25]
Gnutella swapping cookies, too
News Many companies, such as Yahoo, leave cookies on visitors' computers that allow personalised sites to be recreated at the next visit. CNET News.com was able to visit another person's personalised My Yahoo page by downloading and using that person's...
[February 9, 2001, 8:42]
Family Cyber Alert
Downloads Version 4.30 adds support to latest versions of Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo IM, Firefox, and other enhancements. This parental control tool records everything your family members do online and offline, including e-mail, chat/instant messaging...
[August 21, 2009, 9:27]
