Impulse Secures Yahoo! Link-Up
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By Anonymous  Unilever has sealed a six-month tie-up with Yahoo! to promote its Impulse anti-perspirant and body fragrance brand.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Inc. will soon start to fulfill a promise it made to users several months ago to tie its new Web mail service with its instant messaging application. Starting Monday and continuing over the coming months, Yahoo will activate this feature for users of the new version of Yahoo Mail, which is in beta, or test, phase but available to all users of the service. Yahoo officials demonstrated the integration of the Yahoo Mail beta with Yahoo Messenger in November at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The audience reacted enthusiastically to the plan. The new feature alerts Yahoo Mail beta users if their contacts are logged on to Yahoo Messenger and gives them the option of starting a text chat session from within the mail interface. If the user is composing an e-mail message but wants to chat instead, Yahoo Mail can grab the text and paste it into the text chat window. Likewise, the chat session can be automatically imported to an e-mail message form. This integration with Yahoo Messenger is the first of several tie-ups the company plans to implement in the ( Yahoo Mail beta ), because it wants the service to offer multiple communication options to its users, said John Kremer, Yahoo Mail's vice president. Although he declined to confirm future plans, he acknowledged it would make sense to let Yahoo Mail users launch voice conversations and to create links to the company's social networking service, Yahoo 360. Another likely development would be to extend Yahoo Messenger's interoperability with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live Messenger into the Yahoo Mail beta, he said. The beta version, a free service, offers a number of improvements over the current version, including a more agile interface based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) that works like a desktop application. The beta was introduced in September 2005. Unlike typical Web mail services, it lets users drag and drop messages into folders, provides a pane to preview messages' content and offers the ability to have multiple message windows open.
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If you can&#39;t beat &#39;em, join &#39;em, or so they say. Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) plans to double the storage capacity that comes with its free email product, though one might wonder why it didn&#39;t just go ahead, pull
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You ain't digging into my space, Monkeyboy !!!!! Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Yahoo! aimed at fending off the hostile takeover by Microsoft.â¦
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Shared bank accounts next? Call it co-incidence or call it necessity, but Microsoft has jumped on-board a Yahoo!-backed initiative to give internet users a single digital identity.â¦
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Internet provider EarthLink and Yahoo! have teamed up to fight spam by incorporating DomainKeys, a technology developed by Yahoo! that filters fake addresses used by spammers.
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There will be platform independence, this time Yahoo! has announced its intention to support third-party widgets on its mobile platform, promising platform independence and rapid development. The announcement came in a presentation at the CES event, currently taking place in Las Vegas.â¦
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Yahoo! aims to improve its ad reach by acquiring BlueLithium.
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Yahoo! Inc. and EathLink Inc. today announced they would begin attaching digital signatures using a new anti-spam technology to all of its outgoing emails to separate e-mails from unwanted soliciting emails - spam.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7  /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference -- Impulse Point, the leading network access control solution provider for large enterprise networks, announced today the availability of an innovative 802.1x Service Module Offering (SMO).
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Upgrade averts code catastrophe Yahoo! users are urged to upgrade their instant messaging software following the discovery of a brace of security vulnerabilities - the second set of serious security flaws involving Yahoo! Messenger in as many weeks.â¦
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They pooh-poohed Yahoo! -- just before it surged some 50%.
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Internet giant Yahoo! extended its reach in Net&#39;s growing multimedia market today when it announced the deal to acquire media player software house MusicMatch.
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Yahoo is working on a mobile service called oneConnect designed to aggregate contacts and communications around what it calls a &quot;socially connected address book.&quot;The service, due to launch in the second quarter this year, will be open and other companies are free to join, Yahoo said Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.OneConnect draws information from social-networking sites such as MySpace, instant-messaging services such as Yahoo Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger, and e-mail services including Yahoo Mail and Google&#39;s Gmail to build a picture of the mood, location, and activities of friends and colleagues.It also stores details of recent communications with address-book contacts, including instant-messaging and e-mail exchanges. All the information held about a person can be viewed on a &quot;social contact card.&quot;Location data is calculated by GPS (Global Positioning System) in handsets that have it, or deduced from nearby cell tower locations. Users of the service can keep their locations private, or opt to share that information with others.Combining all the information gathered by the service allows Yahoo to alert users of the service when friends arrive in town, or to let them follow up on unfinished business when colleagues become available.&quot;I can see all my communications archives so when someone comes up to me, I know whether I answered his last e-mail,&quot; said Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Yahoo&#39;s Connected Life division, who demonstrated the service at an MWC news conference.Yahoo oneConnect is built on the same widget platform that Yahoo used for its oneSearch mobile search service, so it will work on some 300 phones, either in a browser, as a Java applet or as a native application.Boerries demonstrated how oneConnect can extract information about the status and activities of members of a social network on other services such as MySpace.With some of those services, he said, Yahoo developed the code to exchange the information, while other partners chose to develop the bridge themselves.&quot;We don&#39;t want to be competing to build a better Facebook client,&quot; he said.In one case, though, the intervention of a neutral party was necessary to get both sides talking. Although oneConnect can collect information from Microsoft Exchange e-mail accounts, the connector was written by Dataviz, a third-party software developer specializing in data translation. Microsoft recently made an unsolicited offer to purchase Yahoo, and the two companies are engaged in a war of words over the value of the bid, which may turn hostile.Opening up the social network to other services will allow Yahoo to bulk up in its battle with Google for the attention of Internet users. But Google is also a potential partner for the service: the beta version of oneConnect gathers information from Google Talk and Gmail.The service sends large amounts of data to and from the mobile phone -- the demonstration paused often with a message indicating that data was being exchanged. While unlimited data services are common in the U.S., they are less so in Europe, making the service potentially expensive to use.Boerries acknowledged that data rates could be a problem, adding that Yahoo is negotiating with operator partners to introduce all-inclusive data tariffs for the service.In return, those partners could benefit from a share of the advertising revenue generated by Yahoo&#39;s online services, he said.To conclude his demonstration, Boerries announced &quot;one more thing,&quot; acknowledging that he had stolen the line from Apple CEO Steve Jobs.That thing was an iPhone running oneConnect as a native application, linked to contact information in the iPhone address book.&quot;It&#39;s a prototype, because there is no SDK [software development kit]. We had some eager developers who used Jailbreak to open up the iPhone,&quot; Boerries said, referring to the way in which iPhones must be hacked if they are to run applications not approved by Apple. Jobs has said an SDK will be made available to would-be iPhone application developers later this month.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 21  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yahoo! Inc. , a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rivals.com, the leading online destination for college and high school sports and recruiting information.
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This morning Yahoo! announced that its new search marketing platform, Yahoo Search Marketing &#8216;Panama&#8217;, is now available to advertisers that wish to open a new Yahoo! sponsored search account.   U.S. based accounts can now sign up online to begin marketing products through Yahoo!&#8217;s completely redesigned system. Previously, the system was only open to Yahoo!&#8217;s [...]
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo has fixed a serious vulnerability in its Messenger instant messaging client. The patch, posted Thursday, fixes a critical flaw in the ActiveX control used by Messenger's Webcam feature. According to security experts, this flaw could be exploited by hackers to install unauthorized software on a victim's PC. The patch came after two sample attacks that exploited the vulnerability were posted to the Full Disclosure security discussion list. EEye Digital Security first reported the issue on Wednesday without disclosing specific details of the bug. The security vendor considers the flaw to be serious. "ActiveX remote code execution vulnerabilities have very high impacts because the source of the malicious payload can be any site on the Internet," eEye said in its alert. This is the third time in recent months that Yahoo has had to patch an ActiveX control flaw in Messenger. It patched these other bugs in March and December.