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Yahoo Go For Mobile 2.0

When Yahoo Go for Mobile went live a year ago, it promised to bring the full Yahoo suite of applications to the cell phone, and it certainly delivered. A year later, Yahoo has launched Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, with a completely redesigned look and innovative new features. The software...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Go, Mobile 2.0, mobile marketing, phone

Product reviews 2007-05-18

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz spars with Gartner analysts

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz spars with Gartner analystsMr. Schwartz gets it right, finally.He observed:"We will have R&D…the innovators who create unique intellectual property have the best opportunity to go after the marketplace." Ah, "intellectual property", property, something one owns and can sell to a customer. Solaris was property, but...

Tags: Programming languages, Yahoo Go, Gartner Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., General Electric Co., Java, Schwartz

Discussion threads 2006-05-17

Yahoo Go for TV beta

Yahoo recently made minor headlines by purchasing a small software company named Meedio, which was best known for creating a DVR application, also named Meedio. Just as Yahoo bought Konfabulator to create Yahoo Widgets, Yahoo Go for TV is based on this recently acquired property. Yahoo Go for TV combines...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Go, TV, menu item

Product reviews 2006-04-28

Yahoo Go for Mobile

When it comes to Web access on mobile phones, most cell phone providers prefer to provide their own mobile portals and Web services. Verizon has its Get It Now service, Sprint has PCS Vision, Cingular has Media Net, and T-Mobile has T-zones. The problem with these services is that their...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Go, telephone, mobile marketing

Product reviews 2006-04-27

Additional Resources

Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?

Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft had offered to pay for Yahoo in February. On top of that, the...

Tags: Google Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Business Structures, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Eight ways to track your portfolio on the iPhone

In case you haven't been paying attention, U.S. financial markets are in a tailspin (Dow and AAPL both down 4 6+% today). Securities continue on their relentless roller coaster ride that could make veteran stock brokers lose their lunch. If you'd like to stay more in touch...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Stock, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Analysis, Google Finance, Investment, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?

Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Truevert stands on Yahoo!'s shoulders; learning to search for Green issues

Joining the growing band of search solutions built on top of Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Search Service BOSS initiative, Truevert seeks to apply semantics in providing a particular slant on searches across Yahoo!'s index. Topically, Truevert "is focused on green, environmental...

Tags: Taxonomy, Yahoo! Inc., Ontology, Search Result, Truevert, Search, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-06

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free

Back in April I wrote about the availability of fring on the iPhone, but at that time you needed a jailbroken iPhone to use it and the iPhone 3G wasn't yet available. You may recall that fring is a VoIP application that lets you use Skype, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Skype Technologies S.A., 3G, Wireless LANs, Microsoft Windows, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Telephony, Instant Messaging, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Sen. Kohl: Justice should look closely at Yagoogle deal

Update: Google and Yahoo agree to "briefly" delay the deal to give Justice time to look into it. New York Times Congress continued its poking around in the Google-Yahoo deal with Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) calling on the Justice Dept. to give the deal strict scrutiny. In...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Law, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?A reader repliesI received this in email from a user who apparently wishes not to go through ZDNet registration. So here's my policy: I will not engage in private debate through email on the content of blogs. I will post the...

Tags: E-mail, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?

Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Yahoo wins confidentiality order for Google ad deal

Yahoo said Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has granted it a confidentiality order to keep certain parts of its Google ad deal out of the public eye. In its quarterly filing with the SEC Aug. 8, Yahoo redacted multiple details about its search advertising deal...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., SEC, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Android has power of a clean sheet

Android has power of a clean sheetMaybe Android is a big deal?When I first started seeing stories about Android, I figured it was an iPhone wannabe. But, more and more it sounds like my kind of device (os?).This could be the killer app (os?) for phones/PDAs/mp3 players/image viewers.Wow.The key...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Programming languages, Nokia Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Sony Bravia Internet Video Link (DMX-NV1)

The moment Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link (also known as the BIVL or DMX-NV1) was announced last year, we knew the product would face an uphill battle. What could Sony's proprietary video streamer offer that you can't already get from Apple TV, Xbox 360, Sony PS3, Vudu, or the Netflix...

Tags: Video on demand (VoD), Corporate communications, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Cable, Broadband Internet, BIVL, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-02

The cost of doing business in China: Privacy

The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...

Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Microsoft steps up online search R&D in Europe

Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe. LONDON--Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe, it...

Tags: Google Inc., R&D, Europe, Internet Search, Microsoft Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations, Reuters, search, Microsoft, Google

News items 2008-10-02

Microsoft's search perks gambit eyes 22% of market up for grabs

Microsoft's search perks gambit eyes 22% of market up for grabsRE: Microsoft's search perks gambit eyes 22% of market up for grabsThis is an excellent program! If you are going to search for a something you might as well use the one that gives you relevant results like Microsoft...

Tags: Web browsers, gambit eye, Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts

Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accountsWhy...Why are you people so hard on Palin? She can't help it. She suffers from Palinitis: You open your mouth, out pops a lie.I mean, she is only running for Vice President of the United States, with the additional possibility...

Tags: Devilcrat, Obama, e-mail, Palin, secret email account

Discussion threads 2008-10-01