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  • Twitter @anywhere to let publishers embed tweets into websites

    Twitter plans to launch a new platform that lets web publishers display 'tweets' on their sites more broadly and easily than is possible today via the company's APIs (application programming interfaces).The new frameworks, collectively called…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Youtube • Twitter • Programming • Javascript • Interfaces • Apis

  • Microsoft Bing gains ground on Google in search stakes

    Microsoft Bing, which held its third place spot behind Google and new partner Yahoo last month, has been moving in the right direction in recent months, rising from 8.92% of the search market in December to 9.37% in January and improving again to…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Yahoo • Traction • Microsoft Bing • Engine • Decline

  • Apple iPad to receive Associated Press news

    Client's include Internet-only outlets such as Yahoo and MSNBC.The AP already offers an iPhone application free. The Associated Press has revealed that it intends to launch a paid news application for Apple's forthcoming iPad tablet, as part of its…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Tablet • Revealed • Press • Itunes • App • Ap

  • Force10 Networks files for $144m IPO

    The companys customers include Fortune 100 companies, Internet portals, global carriers, research laboratories and government organizations, including eHarmony, NYSE Euronext, Sega, Yahoo! Ethernet switching company Force10 Networks filed for a…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Switching • Profit • Ipo • Filed • Carriers • Bank

  • Microsoft will catch with Google on search … someday

    The truth is, the number one thing Google benefits from is they did it right first," he said.A cornerstone of Microsoft efforts is a search and advertising deal with Yahoo, in which Microsoft Bing will become the search engine for Yahoo's websites…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Yahoo • Twitter • Steve Ballmer • Complaints • Antitrust

  • Facebook news feed patent to affect social networks

    We're humbled by the growth and adoption of News Feed over time and pleased with being awarded the patent.Barker declined to comment on what Facebook will do now that it has the patent.Karsten Weide, an analyst with IDC, said the patent could…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Updated • Twitter • Social Networking • Questions • Facebook • Affect

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    Everyone does.What could happen: Yahoo and Bing become swamped with search traffic, and might collapse under the weight. A Google spokesperson contacted for this story says, "We are always planning for different threat scenarios, but we aren't…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • Why I'm dropping Google

    I have also deleted as much personal information as possible from my Google profile.I still need to use some Google services, I have clients who share a couple of documents via Google Docs, I need to access one private blog on Blogger, and I will…
    26 February 2010
    Tags: Sharing • Profile • Frequency • Delete • Blogs • Assets

  • FAQ: The Kneber botnet revealed

    The name comes from the registrant for the original domain used to pull together various components of the botnet - hilarykneber@yahoo.com.How old is it? Security vendor NetWitness recently tapped into the logs of a command-and-control server for a…
    19 February 2010
    Tags: Trojan • Logs • Dangerous • Compromised • Agencies • Activity

  • Where do web giants stand on IPv6?

    Yahoo has started IPv6 peering around the world with various ISPs. The most popular websites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.That pressure was…
    05 February 2010
    Tags: Websites • Twitter • Pressure • Isps • Ebay • Carriers

  • IBM Project Vulcan aims to take down Microsoft, Google

    Email was an IT phenomenon, but collaboration in the 2.0 style is a business-led phenomenon.Traditional rival Microsoft is headed toward a similar collaboration strategy, but with less emphasis on the open architecture, as is Google and Cisco, and…
    25 January 2010
    Tags: Notes • Vision • Framework • Lotus • Context • Pull

  • Alternatives to Google and Microsoft search

    The results page will give you top news results, a Wikipedia page (if there is one assigned to the topic), top web results (you can choose whether Leapfish uses Google, Yahoo or Bing as the search engine), video results, Twitter results, a section…
    22 January 2010
    Tags: Events • Categories • Story • Displays • Comments • Realtime

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How-Tos

  • Security tips for large and small businesses

    This strips away most of the obfuscation tricks such as www.yahoo.com.com.attacker.evil.ru, where you might not realize that the DNS (domain name server) will read a URL from right to left (meaning you are visiting a site at evil.ru) and humans…
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Unpatched • Small Businesses • Enterpriseclass • Clicking • Bob • Active Directory

  • How to fix the most common Internet problems

    If Google, Bing and Yahoo replaced those back pages with a message that read, "You've failed. In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to worry about auto-playing video ads, leaping pay walls to read the news, fake emails phishing for our bank details…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Friends • Engines • Bar • Ads • Addon • Ad

  • How to write good passwords

    tHAssuming that the password is for a Yahoo webmail account, we've added an "o" - for the last letter of Yahoo - and a 5, for the number of letters in Yahoo.The payoff: We started with a password of five lowercase letters, which has 11,881,376…
    15 December 2009
    Tags: Accounts • Letter • Passwords • Creating • Yahoo • Crack

  • How to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business

    Some 50 million people joined Facebook between July and September 2009 alone.According to Nielsen Online, the average Facebook user spent 5 hours, 46 minutes on the site in August 2009, far exceeding the average for the number two online time…
    27 November 2009
    Tags: Small Businesses • Tracking • Visitors • Ad • San Francisco • Complaint

  • Putting the finishing touches on your Windows 7 migration

    Same goes for.Videos: Most folks store them in the My Videos folder, so copy the contents to that same folder in Windows 7.Financial records: If you use Intuit Quicken or Microsoft Money, your best bet is probably to use either program's built-in…
    18 November 2009
    Tags: Music • Icon • Copying • Folder • Videos • Contents

  • How to add Facebook and LinkedIn contacts to Outlook

    It's the same thing if one of your contact's e-mail addresses matches a profile on Facebook, Yahoo or Linked-In. It pulls contact information from several different sources, including your database of Outlook e-mails, LinkedIn profiles, Facebook…
    18 September 2009
    Tags: Facebook • Michael • Bar • Actions • Mail • Plugin

Reviews

  • Palm Pre Plus review

    The main updates in WebOS 1.3 are the addition of Yahoo services, like contact and calendar syncing, and Yahoo IM messenger.You can also forward, copy text, and delete IMs and SMS texts by simply tapping on the message.
    22 January 2010
    Tags: Button • Battery Life • Games • App • Cover • Gaming

  • Google Music Search service review

    Google also directed 30 percent of all music-related web traffic from its search engine to third party websites - five times more than Yahoo did.Yahoo also has a similar service that allows you to play full songs and sample clips within your…
    02 November 2009
    Tags: Music • Searches • Delivery • Downloads • Amazon • Window

  • Google Voice review

    To transfer an address book from, say, Yahoo Mail or Microsoft Outlook, you'll need to export the data to a CSV file and import it into Google Voice. Chances are you've heard or read about Google's phone management system Google Voice, but you're…
    29 June 2009
    Tags: Listen • Killer • Fees • Gmail • Friends • Ring

  • D-Link DSM-210 review

    Images transferred very slowly to the frame's 1GB internal memory, because the D-Link DSM-210 allows you to copy them only one by one (the only way to copy multiple images is by using a downloadable Yahoo widget - a bit of a burden).Once there…
    08 June 2009
    Tags: Pictures • Photos • Cards • Picture • Images • Stream

  • AVG Internet Security 8.5 software review

    Unlike some security vendors, AVG Internet Security 8.5 allows you to opt in to various partnerships (as opposed to opting out), such as the Yahoo Search box, during installation.AVG Internet Security 8.5 has other strengths beyond its opt-in…
    01 June 2009
    Tags: Scans • Viruses • Detection • Signature • Registry • Filtering

  • Microsoft Bing website review

    Furthermore, categorised search seems a bit redundant when you have the handy Explorer Pane to help you focus your search results by categories.Bing: Instant ResultsBing joins Yahoo in declaring war against the "ten blue links" approach to…
    28 May 2009
    Tags: Searches • Categories • Preview • Deals • Map • History

White Papers

  • PHP Leads Web 2.0

    At this stage, most people perceive Web 2.0 through the rapidly increasing number of dynamic websites like Flickr, Facebook, MySpace or Yahoo! Everyone is currently talking about Web 2.0, it is the next big thing in the IT industry.
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  • Symantec Security Response Top Five Instant Messaging Security Risks for 2006

    Global services such as AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Instant messaging (IM) continues to be the fastest growing communications medium, with an estimated 390 million consumer and enterprise IM users by the end of 2006.
    13 January 2007
    Tags: Consumer • Activity • Intelligence • Events • Threat • Symantec

  • Blogging and your Corporate Reputation: Part Two – Contribute to the Debate

    Blogging is also useful as a way to get important keywords and phrases indexed by the search engines such as Google and Yahoo! The corporate Weblog (blog) has quickly become a terrific way for organizations and individuals within them to tell…
    13 January 2007
    Tags: Professionals • Self • Experts • Organization • Marketplace • Stories

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