Archive for the “Yahoo” category

Just released: Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Beta

by AJ on April 30, 2008

A few words. User interface is awesomely cool and very new! Food for the eyes. Full screen view, customizable new skins, tabbed messenger windows, new emoticons behavior (pops big and slides to a smaller one), Mac-like auto-save preference (no more (…)

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Yamour – Humoring Yahoo?

by AJ on April 11, 2008

Your logo is like telling Yahoo, “So sue me!”. :P –aj

Yahoo! AMP – Advertising Management Platform

by AJ on April 7, 2008

Yahoo! AMP (Advertising Management Platform) coming in the 3rd quarter of 08. Will this be the “real” worthy Google Adwords competitor? –aj

Yahoo.com redesigns homepage. Puts back centered logo

by AJ on March 25, 2008

In case you haven’t noticed, Yahoo! recently had another redesign of its homepage. Placing the logo at the center just like the old times. (March 25, 2008) (October 17, 1996) Seems a lot cleaner than the previous ones. Do you (…)

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Yahoo! Fire Eagle invite-only beta launched

by AJ on March 5, 2008

Yahoo! Fire Eagle recently mailed out my beta invite to test out the service. Think of it as a twitter for your location. I signed up for the alpha testing last January when I read about it on Yahoo! Next’s (…)

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Yahoo! rejects Microsoft bid. Says it undervalues the company

by AJ on February 11, 2008

From TechCrunch: YAHOO! BOARD OF DIRECTORS SAYS MICROSOFT’S PROPOSAL SUBSTANTIALLY UNDERVALUES YAHOO! Sunnyvale, Calif., February 11, 2008 — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft’s unsolicited proposal (…)

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Yahoo! Domains renewal price increases from $9.95 to $12.95

by AJ on February 6, 2008

I thought offering customers “Unlimited” hosting is a sign of good things to come. I was wrong. Yahoo! just emailed my billing for a domain and it also stated that they will increase their domain renewal from $9.95 to $12.95! (…)

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Yahoo! Web Hosting now “unlimited”

by AJ on February 6, 2008

Yahoo! Web Hosting plan is now offering unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, unlimited email storage, and 1,000 email accounts — all for $11.95 a month. This is shared hosting and I think it’s a pretty good deal compared to (…)

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Microsoft + Yahoo = Microsoft 2.0 (Microsoftoo)?

by AJ on February 1, 2008

I guess I was wrong. The rumor last May from WSJ was true after all. $44.6 Billion. Wow. I guess the number is so big, we can’t really understand it (especially the value). Our minds are just not hard-wired to (…)

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Yahoo! OpenID service now available as public beta

by AJ on January 30, 2008

Yahoo! just launched their OpenID service. 248 million users will now have the ability to login to any website that supports OpenID 2.0 authentication (link) and that my friend, is a huge boost to OpenIDs initiative. Here’s Jeremy Zawodny and (…)

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