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Yahoo launches new social network; Twitter redesign; Rumor: Ebay selling off StumbleUpon

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Network, Yahoo! Inc., StumbleUpon, eBay Inc., Twitter, Yahoo Launch, Arrington, Social Networking, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Yahoo launches Fire Eagle: Gauging my personal ROI

Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a location management service that is the latest step in the company's effort to add social networking features to its portfolio of sites and open its platform. The company describes Fire Eagle as a way "to store and manage information about their...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., ROI, Service, Yahoo Launch, Roi/Tco, Desktops, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-13

Yahoo launches 'stock market for ads'

Yahoo launches 'stock market for ads'Yahoos @ Yahoo Blocking EmailsI work for a university and we're having heck sending mail to people who use Yahoo. We've been back and forth over it. We've been told were in a black hole list first. We proved that we were...

Tags: E-mail providers, advertisement, stock market, Yahoo Launch, stock, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Mail, IP, IP address, Thank-you

Discussion threads 2008-04-13

Yahoo launches 'stock market for ads'

Yahoo on Monday unveiled AMP!, an advertising management platform designed to "significantly simplify the process of buying and selling ads online." In its video demo, Yahoo refers to AMP as a stock market for ads. File this platform under Yahoo's plan to be a central partner to...

Tags: Advertisement, Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Launch, Stock Market, AMP, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-06

Yahoo launches "Buzz" - phew! not quite a Digg clone

Ignoring the question of whether Buzz, Yahoo's newly launched social news site and "meme tracker", will go any way towards turning around the company's fortunes (it won't), I'm already a fan. It's too easy to call the site a Digg-clone, but, like AOL's attempts before it, Yahoo Buzz does borrow...

Tags: Digg, Yahoo! Inc., Story, Yahoo Launch, Yahoo Buzz, E-mail, Business Structures, Engineering, Online Communications, Finance, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Yahoo launches customizable ad tool

Yahoo launches customizable ad toolSo how exactly do they propose to know my gender?There's nothing in HTTP that would tell them. They can't trace it to my IP address, since it's going to be shared (even if it was static, my wife and I would both use it). I may...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., advertisement, ad tool, Yahoo Launch, tool

Discussion threads 2007-07-02

Yahoo launches customized IE 7 beta

Yahoo launches customized IE 7 betaAnd Google gets slapped down.So much for their anti-trust whining.How are these distributed?Is this by download only? Is it only for the XP version? Will it come pre-installed on Vista? With Microsoft moving in to compete on the "Search" front, how likely is that these...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Management, Astroturfing, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Yahoo Launch

Discussion threads 2006-06-12

Yahoo launches new video site

Yahoo launches new video siteGood luck!I just hope your stuff won't be as imbicilical as that you-tube crap.

Tags: Corporate communications, Yahoo Launch, video site, Yahoo! Inc., video

Discussion threads 2006-06-01

Yahoo launches 'contextual' search

Yahoo launches 'contextual' searchCongratulations Yahoo, Serve the BuyerThe "Contextual Search" is a good facility but it should be consistent with "Search Dialog Box". It should be seen as another means of filling in the "Search Dialog Box" and the information seeker should be able to edit the same. This...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Launch

Discussion threads 2005-02-03

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News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

JBuddy Messenger 3.1.091026 (Mac)

JBuddy Messenger is a multi-protocol, cross-platform instant messaging desktop client. JBuddy Messenger supports popular public instant messaging protocols as well as enterprise instant messaging servers and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and other Java-enabled desktop environments. System Requirements: JBuddy Messenger requires a Java Runtime Environment JRE...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screen Name, IM, JBuddy Messenger, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-26

News to know: Bing-Twitter; Net Neutrality; eBay; VMWare; Nook; Win7

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing Sam Diaz: Tweets on Bing: Watch out for more noise,...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Twitter Inc., Net Neutrality, VMware Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Software As A Service (SaaS), Podcasts, Microsoft Windows, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Google Chrome Frame boosts IE speed up to Chrome levels

If only it was for Firefox......but still astonishing results!Could this be the start of hybrid browsers? Will there be a FF version?irrelevantNobody uses IE 7 or 8 because of security.Making a bad product worse is not what windoze users need.This shows again the virtues of FOSS vs proprietary software.Corporate IT...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome Frame, Google Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Identity Theft, Phishing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-11

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Sony loses bid to force royalties out of webcaster

On the hunt for money to beef up their rapidly deteriorating industry, the Big Four record labels sued LAUNCH, owned by Yahoo, and currently operated by CBS Radio CBS also owns ZDNet. Their gripe: LAUNCH lets users create channels by genre and skip songs they don't like. This, they claimed,...

Tags: Sony Corp., Predictability, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Motorola Karma QA1 (AT&T)

It seems that PCD isn't the only manufacturer making square messaging phones. Indeed, the Motorola Karma QA1 for AT&T looks a whole lot like PCD's Verizon Wireless Blitz and the more recent Cricket TXTM8. However, the Karma QA1 is a step above those two in both design and features. It...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, AT&T Corp., Motorola Karma QA1, Karma QA1, Cricket TXTM8, Motorola Inc., phone

Product reviews 2009-08-05

Schmidt resignation: Is Apple search on the way?

When the first iPhone came out two years ago I was astounded that there was no way to search its contents: Searching For Search On the iPhone One year later, in 2008, after many updates to the software and new hardware: still no search function! Only now, in the...

Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Search Engine, Apple Inc., Search, Branding, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-04