Yahoo prepares to announce the closure of Yahoo Photos, the service that allowed users to upload and share their pictures with other Internet users. The service will be shut down in the upcoming months because the company wants to move all the clients to the recently acquired platform, Flick. According to TechCrunch, the migration will be enhanced by a new Yahoo function that will allow users to transfer all their photos to Flick with a single click. It seems that other services will be also supported so, if you want to move your pictures to Photobucket, Snapfish, Shutterfly or Kodak Gallery, you can do it with ease. Flickr was bought in Ma... [read more >>] Yahoo finally launched a web-based version of Yahoo Messenger, allowing the users to communicate with their friends straight from an online page. The product is actually quite amazing, providing an impressive interface bundled with almost perfect functionality. The web-based Yahoo Messenger is probably the most powerful rival for the famous Meebo or other similar services like Ebuddy. As far I can see, the way this new version works is quite impressive, the messages are sent extremely quickly, just like the downloadable application. Yahoo Web Messenger is based on Flash 9 and is compatible with any Yahoo ID or Live Messenger contacts. Basic... [read more >>] The security company Exploit Prevention Labs managed to discover the procedure used for last week's Google hack that affected a considerable number of AdWords publishers. The firm sustained the entire malicious move was based on trusted websites redirected to famous organizations such as The Better Business Bureau. When an ordinary user searches Google for this organization, the technology returns him two types of links for the same website. Let me explain it better. As you know, Google uses the SERP to return ordinary links and sponsored links that are placed in the right part of the screen. The attackers managed to exploit the sponso... [read more >>] Gmail, the mail solution provided by the Mountain View company, will get some fresh updates soon that will surely improve the functionality of the product. Mp Web Wizard, a translator for the Google language, identified some new features that will be soon implemented into Gmail. First of all, it seems like the search giant plans to include support for Presently, the upcoming presentation tool that was designed to complete the Google Office suite. "Clearly Google Presently will be integrated into Gmail straight from the get-go. Google is probably prepared for this because Google Apps is meant to be Google's collaborative suite of enterp... [read more >>] The story so far: Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central, sent a subpoena to the search giant, demanding to remove more than 100.000 clips from YouTube. The main reason? Viacom considered that Google receives praises and money for the content provided by other publishers. Of course Google agreed and started the huge removal. After only one week, Viacom went even further and filed a complaint against Google, suing the company for copyright infringement. Since the lawsuit was officially confirmed, the battle was continued by other elements concerning the two companies. For example, the YouTube users wanted to sue Viacom because some of t... [read more >>] Google debuted a new name for its famous Personalized Homepage that brings the Mountain View-based company a little bit closer to Apple, the well known producer of Mac OS X. The search giant presented a new version of Personalized Homepage, codenamed iGoogle that reveals some interesting features and abilities that will surely attract more users. As I reported yesterday, Google introduced some new themes for the product that help clients customize the appearance of their own website, improving it with spring elements. However, the company prepared even more features and bundled them in a new version of the service that was released today un... [read more >>] Google debuted a new set of updates that bring some new features for the video sharing service, improving the functionality and the users' powers. Among a lot of new functions, Google debuted the "Who can comment?" ability that will help uploaders control the comments for their videos. For example, you can customize your channel with the possibility to restrict the comments to friends or to allow all users to post messages. If you want to use the new function, this is available under the My Profile menu or in the Edit Video options for a single clip.You're now able to configure the appearance of your own channel using the "Organiz... [read more >>] Yahoo Messenger is often more than a simple instant messaging client because it provides a lot of powerful functions that allows users to communicate with ease. Since the version 6 was released, Yahoo Messenger was continuously promoted and managed to become the most popular application on the Internet. As you know, the instant messaging client is available for free with a simple Yahoo account that is also compatible with other products developed by the company such as mail or bookmarks. However, most of the Yahoo clients are creating their accounts because they want to communicate on the Internet using Yahoo Messenger.The latest version of... [read more >>] Have a look at this site. This is the new beta for the upcoming design of the famous AOL. Now visit Yahoo's homepage. Please tell me the differences. None? Shocking or disgusting? You choose. However, the AOL homepage is a perfect copy of the current Yahoo layout with exactly the same elements. The button, the menu, the images, the entire layout, everything is copied. Except for the logo and the search engine that is currently provided by Google. Oh, and even the search button that is exactly the same as the one published by Yahoo. AOL's senior product manager posted a message on his blog to present the new version of the homepage... [read more >>] Yesterday, numerous users reported their accounts were hacked and several anonymous advertising campaigns were started without their approval. More than that, the credit card information was changed, but the password remained unmodified. The affected members sustained the advertising campaigns started by the hackers redirect visitors to infected webpages that try to install several malware files. Although the company didn't confirm that more users were affected by the flaw, the AdWords members were still looking for a way to talk with Google's representatives. However, the company didn't remain unaffected by the flaw because ... [read more >>] | 
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