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Vulnerability Lab researchers released a proof-of-concept video to reveal a buffer overflow issue present in Yahoo Messenger, the popular instant messaging client. The high severity security hole was identified by Manideep, also known as z3r0 erR0R, who proved that when users try to send an image file on chat rooms ... |
11 February 2012
07:13 GMT |
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For some time now, Yahoo has used an algorithm to choose the news stories it shows on its homepage. It used to do it with human editors and there used to be just one homepage for everyone. Now, there are 13 million every day.
Yahoo uses a wide variety of info to pick the stories that it serves to any visitor. Based ... |
11 February 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Regardless of whether you're in the US or not, the Super Bowl is coming this weekend. And, regardless of whether you care or not, you're going to be hearing more about it.
In that vein, Yahoo has now shared some search stats leading up to the big match on Sunday, pitting the two NFL teams, the New York Gia... |
3 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Yahoo Mail underwent a big and somewhat painful revamp last year as a newer version replaced the one that had been around for years now. The New Yahoo Mail promised better performance and a few other enhancements, but it also relied more on Facebook and Twitter integration.
The upgrade went smoothly enough, consider... |
3 February 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Borrowing a page out of Google's playbook, Yahoo has announced that it is focusing even more on mobile, by killing off a bunch of mobile apps. It's quite a long and somewhat surprising list, since it contains apps linked to some of Yahoo's most popular properties."We’re moving forward with a ... |
30 January 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Some of the major technology firms, including Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo, joined their forces in creating a powerful email standard that should protect inboxes from spam and phishing messages.
DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, is actually a technical specification created ... |
30 January 2012
08:19 GMT |
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Yahoo has released its fourth quarter financial results. They're not that bad, but that's considering that this is Yahoo. The company declined in both revenue and income numbers from the same period in the previous year. This happens while everyone else making money from ads is seeing growth. The slightly ... |
25 January 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Flickr has big plans this year, at least that's what it's saying in its "New Year's Cleaning" blog post. Big and wonderful new features are coming this year, but it's got to get rid of some of the older and rarely used ones first, it says.Flickr has compiled a list of features that are getting the... |
14 January 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Bing has done it, it's finally overtaken Yahoo Search. It may not be much of a victory, since Bing powers both search engines, but Microsoft will take anything it gets at this point. The software giant has been at it for many, many years and it has only now broken through the 15 percent market share mark. What&... |
12 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Now that Yahoo finally got a new CEO, it seems that the board is up for review. Rumors say that Yahoo is looking for new board members to replace at least several of the current ones.
Given that the Yahoo board is generally regarded as one of the most inefficient, to put it mildly, in the industry, that can only b... |
7 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
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It's official, Yahoo has announced that it has ended its search for a new CEO. It's been searching for one since September, when it ousted its former CEO Carol Bartz, even as the company has been involved in talks of a sale of the entire company or just its Asian assets.
Yahoo announced that, now former, P... |
4 January 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Yahoo has had a confusing past few months. Ever since it got rid of its CEO in September, the company's future has been unclear, to say the least. On the one hand, it has been looking for a replacement. On the other, it was looking for buyers as well, either for the whole company or just for its valuable Asian a... |
4 January 2012
08:10 GMT |
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The new year has started and the celebrations are over. Once again, as always, people are looking for a fresh start and the rather arbitrary date coinciding with the new year is as good as any. New year resolutions are quite a 'tradition' around the world and it seems that one of the biggest things people/Y... |
3 January 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Google has managed to maintain its top spot as the most visited website in the US, at least according to Nielsen numbers. Facebook comes in at number two, but still has some way to go before challenging Google, since it just overtook Yahoo.Google amassed an average of 153 million US visitors per month in 2011, more t... |
29 December 2011
06:10 GMT |
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Google, Yahoo and Bing have revealed this year's top searches, as seen from their perspective. Google shows that "Google+" is the second fastest growing search term on the site. Yahoo revealed that the "iPhone" was the "top search term."
Bing doesn't have an overall top, but the most searched for person wa... |
23 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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People may have mixed opinions about Facebook's auto-sharing, but Yahoo couldn't love it more. It's easy to understand why, Yahoo boasts that 12 of the top 40 most shared stories of 2011 on Facebook originated from its sites.
And it has paid off for Yahoo, its Yahoo News traffic coming from Facebook ... |
22 December 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Flickr has unveiled its regular Year in Photos gallery. In 2011, 18 hand-picked pics, all posted by Flickr users, highlight the big events of the year around the world and in the US.
It starts with the Arab revolutions of the spring and goes through natural disasters like the Japan earthquake and tsunami or a tornad... |
20 December 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger 11.5 was introduced a couple of weeks ago. The instant messaging client added quite a few features and changes, some of which have been requested for a lot of time. The latest update also brought support for a new language, Yahoo Messenger became available in Romanian for the first time.Yahoo is now m... |
19 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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Google may be dominating the search space globally, but 'dominate' can mean quite a different thing from country to country. In the US, Google has about 65 percent of the market. In the UK, its share is at over 90 percent.
While it has been stuck at that level for a lot of time, having gained just 0.68 per... |
15 December 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced a new security option for its users, which should make it harder for unwanted persons to access accounts without permission. It's not the first big identity provider to enable the option, but it's good that Yahoo finally got on board. If you want to add another layer of security to your... |
9 December 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Yahoo is finally giving its BOSS service an upgrade. After its fate was in question for many months, due to the switch to Bing for search results, it seems that Yahoo is determined to improve its custom search service.Yahoo BOSS, which stands for Build Your Own Search Service, is now introducing several new features ... |
7 December 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Google is now testing a new Image Search interface for tablets. Its main search page also comes with a customized look on tablets, so the extension makes sense.
Google is taking an interesting approach, displaying the images in the results in a slideshow, enabling users to both see the larger version but also look a... |
7 December 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced a couple of new features for its image search engine. They're not game changers, but they should prove useful in some cases. Users can now share images they find via Yahoo Search with their Twitter or Facebook friends.
The image results page also gets infinite scrolling, there are no more pa... |
6 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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By making use of a technique called DNS poisoning, a cyberattacker managed to take down Samsung, Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple, Linux, Microsoft and Hotmail websites, hosted on the .cd domain extension which belongs to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The hacker who calls himself AlpHaNiX managed to deface a... |
6 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Group messaging apps were the latest hype, a year ago. Yet, it seems some companies are still only now jumping on the bandwagon. Case in point, Yahoo, which is launching its very first group messaging app, dubbed Hub.
Yahoo Hub is a fairly standard group messaging app, it enables users to have group conversations as... |
5 December 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Security experts discovered that the newly released version of Yahoo Messenger and some of its predecessors contain a vulnerability that allows an attacker to take over the status of an unsuspecting user, replacing it with his own malicious links. Bitdefender researchers claim that the attack begins when a cybercrim... |
2 December 2011
10:20 GMT |
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The age of the content farm is behind us. Well, maybe not entirely, but the once unstoppable content-churning machines are reshaping themselves for a web (read that: Google) that is less forgiving of poor quality content.
Last year, Yahoo acquired Associated Content, one of the leading 'content farms' on t... |
2 December 2011
10:20 GMT |
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There's a new version of Yahoo Messenger out there and it's not just a minor update. Yahoo Messenger 11.5 adds several new features, some of which have been heavily requested for a lot of time.
Tabbed conversations is the biggest new thing in Yahoo Messenger 11.5. Finally, talking to several people at once... |
1 December 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Four major players of the Internet, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and AOL, unite their forces with Agari, a company that hopes to revolutionize email security, with the purpose of developing new ways to keep email inboxes clean.
According to CNET, Agari analyzes 1.5 billion emails each day in the attempt of trying to fin... |
30 November 2011
08:44 GMT |
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Lately, Yahoo! makes the headlines only in news that announce stake selling and the general downslide of the company. Despite all this, the development team for their instant messaging app has been working on a new version of the product and the result is Yahoo! Messenger 11.5.0.152. The new release introduces a sle... |
30 November 2011
04:06 GMT |
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Several months ago, Yahoo introduced the brand new Yahoo Mail. It boasted several improvements and new features, plus some performance enhancements. But not everyone was impressed, in fact, quite a lot of people liked their old Yahoo Mail. Yet Yahoo kept on pestering them to upgrade to the newest version. When they... |
26 November 2011
10:51 GMT |
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With Yahoo's troubles these days, it's hard to remember that it was once the hottest thing in Silicon Valley, a company on the way up. The dot com era was filled with rising stars, some long gone, but Yahoo stood out.It was during this time that it put up one of the most iconic billboards in San Francisco a... |
18 November 2011
12:04 GMT |
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The search market seems like a relatively easy one to follow. After all, not much happens, Google dominates, Bing and Yahoo try to keep up. But not everyone analyzing the market comes up with the same results.For example, Experian Hitwise's numbers for October seem to contradict the comScore numbers published ea... |
17 November 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Continuing a trend among search engines of late, Yahoo has now added a dedicated Recipe search tab and is also including recipe results in the main results page for some queries.
The new tab, as is pretty self-evident, will enable users find the perfect meal for any time of the day or to try something different.
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16 November 2011
09:04 GMT |
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Yahoo Mail is now available in Arabic. Users can now sign up and use the popular webmail client entirely in Arabic, something they haven't been able to do so far.Apart from the Arabic translation, Yahoo is also debuting an interesting option for the new Yahoo Mail, the entire interface can be mirrored if you... |
14 November 2011
13:51 GMT |
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There hasn't been much movement in October in the search market. In the US, Google continues to dominate, it even gained 0.3 percent points last month, while Yahoo and Microsoft struggle, to no avail to catch up."Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent market share (up ... |
12 November 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have banded together in an unholy alliance of sorts. They've announced that they've struck a deal around advertising which will allow them to sell each other's inventory for, hopefully, a more efficient use of ad space and resources.The idea is to put unsold inventory from any... |
9 November 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Yahoo is continuing to expand its outsourcing. Under former CEO's Carol Bartz leadership, Yahoo moved to get rid of as many businesses and products as possible. The ones that it kept it oursourced to outside companies.
The biggest such move was its search deal with Microsoft. Bing is now powering Yahoo Search a... |
31 October 2011
06:04 GMT |
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The new version of Miranda instant messaging software does not show too many changes. There are no new features added, only bug fixes for two protocols: Yahoo and Jabber. The previous update squashed bugs relating to AIM protocol.
Yahoo-related repairs eliminated a bug that would interrupt compressed connections. Wi... |
28 October 2011
08:50 GMT |
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The situation around Yahoo is starting to become a little clearer, though not by much. There are definitely groups trying to buy Yahoo. And the company is definitely up for sale, for the right price.But, even at its lowest, Yahoo is still rather expensive. Few companies would afford to buy it outright and even severa... |
25 October 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Ever since the Yahoo board got rid of its, rather underperforming, CEO Carol Bartz earlier this fall, the rumors about its future have been all over the place. While Yahoo initially denied wanting to sell, this is one of the possible paths going forward.And, while it seems that the companies most interested in Yahoo ... |
24 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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It took almost two years, but Yahoo has finally switched all of its search sites over to Bing, with the sole exception of South Korea. What's more, all search partners that had integrated Yahoo Search features are being powered by Bing as well.Yahoo made the most progress, in terms of the number of countries swi... |
19 October 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Yahoo has revealed its financial results for the third quarter of 2011. The company reported both a drop in revenue and a drop in profits, but the numbers were higher than analyst expectations, resulting in a slight uptick in share price.Otherwise, there's not much else to celebrate, revenue continues to fall, t... |
19 October 2011
07:26 GMT |
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With all of the restructurings, the reorganizations, the plans to revamp the company and focus on content, it's easy to forget that Yahoo is, at heart, a technology company. Which is why the engineers still working at the company need to remind us with things like the Yahoo Mail Visualisation Project.
Just li... |
14 October 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Even though it's not the first time, Yahoo and Bing have been caught again serving malware through their advertised results, and this time the malicious element involved is the infamous Sirefef, also known as ZeroAccess and Max++.GFI Labs blog reveals that the cybervillains have changed the malevolent file that ... |
14 October 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of comScore's search market numbers, Experian Hitwise is providing its own analysis. While the numbers differ, for a number of reasons, the overall trends are rather similar and both reports show Google growing in September in the US, after staying put for a long time.
Determining exactly how... |
13 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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It's business as usual in the search market, at least in the US, in September. Except for the rather somber fact that Yahoo has hit its lowest point in history, everything else is moving, or not moving as the case may be, according to the bigger and unchanged trends.
Google managed to turn the tides in Septem... |
11 October 2011
09:21 GMT |
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With Yahoo's faith hanging in the balance and even the people in charge unsure what to do next, the rumor mill is having a field day digging up potential buyers or other strategic moves for the company.The latest rumor says that Yahoo is looking to sell its stake in Yahoo Japan, not exactly the hardest bet to ma... |
7 October 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Yahoo and ABC News have announced a partnership which will see ABC News content and coverage land on Yahoo News and other Yahoo properties. The partnership goes beyond content, the Yahoo news and the ABC News teams will share offices in several cities and will work on several common projects. The partnership will al... |
3 October 2011
11:13 GMT |
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Yahoo's future is uncertain and that's the only certain thing we know about the company. Despite initially denying it, Yahoo is entertaining the idea of a sale. But, despite its lackluster performance in recent years, the company is still worth more than $16 billion, 11.8 billion Euro.So it's going to ... |
1 October 2011
10:21 GMT |
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