Microsoft and Yahoo are trading blame for a Windows Phone 7 data-drain issue related to synchronization between Yahoo Mail and Windows Phone Mail Client. – Microsoft has
blamed Yahoo Mail for a “data-drain” bug affecting a small subset of Windows
Phone 7 devices. However, Yahoo seems intent on shoveling that blame right back
on its rival-backslash-partner.
The fun
originally began when an unknown subset of Windows Phone 7 users began
complaining …
Microsoft suggested an "inefficiency" between Yahoo Mail and the Windows Phone Mail client is causing Windows Phone 7s unexplained data drain for some users. – Microsoft is
blaming Yahoo Mail for a “data-drain” bug affecting a small subset of Windows
Phone 7 devices.
For weeks, the
company had been investigating complaints of smartphones devouring users data,
even when not running applications or cruising the Web. Some users reported
that this unexp…
In its monthly report to Congress, the Veteran Affairs Department listed a Yahoo calendar containing patient data among a number of data security lapses it dealt with. – The Veteran Affairs Department ordered doctors to
immediately stop using a Yahoo Calendar Application to store confidential data.
Notifications of a possible security breach have been sent to nearly 900
affected patients, according to VAs monthly
report to Congress on Dec. 22.
The report called…
A nude photo scare, the finale of Hannah Montana, and the bong hit heard round the web helped make teen sensation Miley Cyrus the year’s Most-Searched Person on Yahoo! Yahoo! has tallied up their Top 10 Search Terms of 2010 and the controversial Disney starlet was among six celebrities who made the cut among web [...]
Yahoo is reportedly planning to kill a handful of services, with its bookmarking site Delicious actively seeking a new home outside the company. – Yahoo is apparently taking the term “buzzkill” to a new level, confirming to
various news outlets its plans to eliminate its Buzz social-news portal.
“We continuously evaluate and prioritize our portfolio of products and
services, and do plan to shut down some products in coming months such as
…
Microsoft Bing picked up search share in November, grabbing 11.8 percent share at the expense of Google and Yahoo. Google still wields 66 percent of the market. – Google and Yahoo each lost a smidgen of search engine
market share to Microsoft Bing, which rose to 11.8 percent share through
November, according to researcher comScore.
Google
maintained its 66 percent search engine market share through November, slipping
from 66.3 percent to 66.2 percent dur…
A leaked memo from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz confirms layoffs began this week. Yahoo was not the only tech company with announced layoffs: Nokia is also cutting staff in Finland. –
It’s a cold, cold winter in Sunnyvale, Calif.,
and Helsinki.
Internet “destination” Yahoo as it calls itself in its company overview has a
bit of bad news for 4 percent of its staff (about 600 employees) this holiday
season: Sorry, but your services at Yahoo are no longer necessary. Yahoo
emp…
Yahoo is adding Local Offers to its Local deals Web service, which is available in beta for computers, iPhones and Android handsets. Local is the answer to Facebook Deals and Groupon. –
Yahoo contributed to the latest crush of local-related
news Dec. 8 by making its refreshed Yahoo Local service available in limited
beta for computers and Apple’s iPhone and Google Android smartphones.
Compare the current and new Yahoo Local services.
The top menu has changed from vertically…
Google can fuel Yahoo Japan’s search engine without violating antitrust rules, said Japan’s Fair Trade Commission. The move casts a long shadow on Microsoft’s plans for Japan. – Google Dec. 2 won approval to power Yahoo Japan’s search
engine from Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, a victory that has Microsoft worried
about its prospects for Bing in that country.
Japan’s FTC said the deal wouldn’t violate antitrust
rules as it currently stands because it is limited to a sha…
Microsoft’s Bing could suffer if Yahoo becomes unstable, since Yahoo gives the search engine scale in its battle against Google. – Microsoft is apparently “very worried about making sure
there is a stable Yahoo,” according to anonymous sources speaking to
AllThingsDs Kara Swisher. If true, those comments would highlight the
interdependency between the two companies search and advertising businesses, where there is a
conside…
When word of Facebook’s new e-mail product, code-named Project Titan, broke Nov. 12, the assumption was that the social network was building some sort of super Webmail product geared to kill Google’s Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail. But releasing such "killer" products has not been Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s MO. Rather, he and his team have set forth to augment Facebook with software services that are germane to the network. Everything lives within the context of the walled garden, whose access to the outside world extends to third-party Websites only through carefully federated API connections. Facebook Messages is the messaging product, but rather than running as a stand-alone offering, the service streamlines users’ direct messages, SMS texting, e-mail and chat. Users who receive an invite to the beta will receive @fb.com addresses. Messages lacks the subject lines, carbon copies and blind carbon copies of regular e-mail service, but it provides a great deal more messaging efficiency to the social network, whose 500 million-plus users may be tired of fragmented communications. "We don’t expect anybody to wake up tomorrow and say, ‘OK, I will shut down my Yahoo or Gmail account and switch exclusively to Facebook,’" Zuckerberg said at the launch. Perhaps not so soon, but it is his belief that people will want to move all of their online communication to Facebook where it makes sense. Expect calls via Facebook, similar to what Google did in Gmail with Google Voice. Facebook could use Skype for video calling. The possibilities are many. Meanwhile, here is a brief overview of the launch and the Messages setup. – …
Yahoo Nov. 16 introduced Local Offers, a bid to rival Facebook Deals, Foursquare deals and Google Places. Also on tap: integrations with Twitter and Zynga, as well as new search tools. – SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo
Nov. 16 rolled out a number of new features for applications spanning search,
instant messaging and mobile applications as it seeks to lure more users from
Google, Facebook and other Internet rivals.
But the most interesting piece of news was the vague introduction of Yahoo
…
Realignment is the way of the Web portal. In some areas of Yahoos business there will be cost cutting via layoffs, but there is also a major announcement on content expansion. – Rumor
has it that Yahoo is cutting anywhere from 10 to 20 percent of its consumer
products division which could be between 650 and 2,500 individuals by the end of
the year, according to anonymously sourced reports from TechCrunch and AllThingsDigital. Yahoo disputed the numbers will be as high as…
As fast as Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo search engines are, they are still predicated on the traditional model that users type in queries and get a bunch of links. Hopefully one or more of those actually fulfill users’ requests for information. Google Instant Previews guesses users’ queries as they begin to type them, helping users search much faster than before. Google Instant Previews marks the search giant’s next evolution of rapid-fire search, offering users visual snapshots of search results. This gives users a better idea of what lies behind the query, helping them filter out the noise from results of value. Instant Previews comes as Google battles newcomers, such as Blekko, as well as question-and-answer sites, such as Quora, Hunch and Facebook Questions, in an increasingly crowded market for digital information search. Google Instant Previews is rolling out gradually in 40 languages, but while you’re waiting, eWEEK offers this tour of them here. – …
Facebook led Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and others in display ads, capturing nearly one quarter of all impressions in the U.S. as its 500 million users engaged with the social network. – Facebook led all online publishers with nearly one
quarter of all display impressions, a trend that should amplify fears for Google,
Yahoo and Microsoft that the social network is becoming a digital ad
clearinghouse.
Display ads include the graphical online ads that dot
Facebook’s Web pages, a…
Yahoo! has the trailer for Just Go With It, the winter comedy starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston and featuring Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman, and Heidi Montag. The feature follows a man (Sandler) who convinces a single mom (Aniston) to pretend to be his soon-to-be-divorced wife so that he can win over the woman he [...]
Blekko launched Nov. 1, promising a new, curated form of search customized by its users, with an assist from the type of machine-generated algorithm search giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing employ. Blekko users create slashtags, which help them search only the sites users want. This cuts out the spam of irrelevant information and links associated with the classic search engines. Blekko users create their own slashtags, allowing them to set up directories of information in a few vertical areas so that they can come back to them later and let other people see them. Once the slashtags are set up with relevant keywords and populated with target Websites, users can search only the favorite Websites they desire. Blekko has targeted specific verticals for the initial launch, including health, recipes, song lyrics, hotels, automobiles, colleges and personal finance. Expect more to come as the service picks up momentum. That will be quite a challenge versus Google and Bing, but we’re game to give it a shot. – …
Blekko Nov. 1 launched to public beta to challenge Google, Bing and Yahoo with a curated search engine geared to pare spam. – Blekko Nov. 1 became the latest startup to challenge
Google with a search engine that lets its users customize and refine searches to
can some of the spam.
Machine-generated search engines such as Google, Yahoo
and Bing take users’ queries and search for these digital needles of
information in …
Microsoft has finished migrating all of Yahoo’s ad accounts to its adCenter platform in the U.S. and Canada. The companies hope this effort helps Bing compete with Google. – For two months, Microsoft Bing has been serving all of Yahoo’s searches in the United
States and Canada.
Now all of the paid search Yahoo generates in those countries is funneling
through Microsoft’s ad platform, too.
Microsoft and Yahoo Oct. 27 said they finished migrating all of Yahoo’s ad
ac…
