Yahoo Gets Personal With oneConnect
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Yahoo's new oneConnect service lets mobile phone users share bits of their favorite Web sites with friends.
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Yahoo! gets into the game with its latest acquisition.
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Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites.
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Yahoo appears close to implementing&#160;OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites.Yahoo controls a domain me.yahoo.com, which shows a short message indicating the company will act as an identity provider for OpenID.Code on pages at Flickr.com, owned by Yahoo, could also let a person use their Flickr login and profile for logging into other OpenID-compatible sites. The code can be seen by viewing the source of Flickr photostream pages, and points to&#160;https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth.OpenID, an open-source project, has gained support&#160;from two other major Internet players, Microsoft and Google. However, those companies are not widely providing support on their sites for OpenID yet.But an early implementation of OpenID by Yahoo could provide a spark for broader support, some say.&quot;I expect Yahoo&#39;s implementation to be a major influence in encouraging OpenID 2 adoption,&quot; wrote Simon Willison, a freelance Web consultant and developer who used to work for Flickr. In January last year, Willison launched idproxy.net, a Web site that links Yahoo IDs and OpenIDs.OpenID is referred to as a decentralized system since no one company or entity controls all of the identity information. It gives users more power to determine who they want to share their identity with and avoids the potential security problems of having a massive amount of data locked up in a single database. The system is also free.Web sites acting as an identity provider for OpenID give users a unique URL (Uniform Resource Locator). When a person encounters another Web site supporting OpenID, they can enter that URL along with the password they have registered with the identity provider, which is then verified in order to login at the new site.The person is then allowed to carry their profile or other information into the new Web site, a concept known as single sign-on. It means that people may need fewer passwords but would be able to securely share their data and login on more Web sites.A variety of companies and Web sites are supporting OpenID, such as AOL, LiveJournal, Technorati and mobile operator Orange, which is owned by France T&#233;l&#233;com, according to the OpenID Web site. Hundreds of other Web sites are also using OpenID.Yahoo could not be reached for comment.&#160;
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Yahoo fixes a serious vulnerability in its Messenger instant messaging client.
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Yahoo has forged a strategic partnership with more than 150 daily newspapers across the US, the first benefit of which will be a tight integration with Yahoo's HotJobs service.
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Yahoo Inc said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users.
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ISP's customers have a new option for obtaining their e-mail on the go.
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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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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Yahoo&#39;s new Mobile Internet service lets users obtain localized search results on specific businesses, access maps, and make calls from the results page.
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The software maker lets a few details out during an employee Web cast to discuss Yahoo bid. It's just one of many product tidbits I expect to come out as part of regulatory filings associated with the offer.
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Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced a new mobile phone service that integrates e-mail, instant messaging and social networks.
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Yahoo Inc. is offering free group  conference calling services from Vapps Inc. to the roughly 80  million users of Yahoo's instant-message and Web  telephone-calling service, the companies said on Monday.
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Blog: Yahoo IM fixed after temporary problems
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Vapps, a US company that provides free conference calling via the Internet, announced that it would be adding the feature to Yahoo's online message service.
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Yahoo Adds Conference Calling to Messenger Yahoo continues to beef up its Yahoo Messenger Voice offering with the addition of VoIP conference calling from a partnership with Vapps ConfreeCall. Red Herring reports: &#8220;It will let you select people from your buddy list and start a conference instantly with them or schedule one for later via email,&#8221; said Vapps [...]