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Jan
30
30
Yahoo to cease Development on Mobile Apps
Yahoo is going to cease work on the development of several apps as the new CEO of Yahoo appears to have taken a scythe to the company's mobile apps division.
The company has declared that it will be ending development on some of its apps.
The company
in a blog post that it is still committed to its "mobile first" approach though, and will still develop new services in the future.
The run down services are:
- Yahoo! Meme (iPad and iPhone)
- Yahoo! Mim (iPad)
- Yahoo! Answers (Android)
- Yahoo! AppSpot (Android and iPhone)
- Yahoo! Deals (iPhone)
- Yahoo! Finance (BlackBerry)
- Yahoo! ...
Jan
5
5
Yahoo is ready to declare new CEO
After firing former CEO Carol Bartz in September, Yahoo is ready to name PayPal President Scott Thompson as chief, the website AllThingsD reported by mentioning sources close to the situation.
Thompson has been managing PayPal, the online payments unit of eBay, since early 2008, and
formerly its chief technology officer.
PayPal processed US$29-billion in payments in the third quarter of 2011.
However, the Internet Company has been lacking a permanent chief executive since early September, when it fired Carol Bartz after losing patience with her attempts to turn around the company ...
Dec
30
30
Google named 2011′s most visited website in the US
The name of Google has been entered in the list of most visited website during 2011. Now Google become 2011's most visited website in the US.
Figures from market research firm Nielsen suggest that more than 153 million users accessed the search giant's pages each
placing it slightly ahead of runner-up Facebook’s 138 million. Yahoo is at third place with 130 million monthly visitors, while MSN and YouTube are at fourth and fifth respectively.
Microsoft came in sixth with more than 83,000 monthly users, followed by AOL Media Network and ...
Oct
19
19
Google+ is no threat for Facebook!
A statement was given by Google last week which said that its social networking challenge to Facebook has topped 40 million users and it is growing fast. During an earnings conference call, Google co-founder and chief executive Larry Page said
"People are flocking to Google+
an incredible rate and we are just getting started."
Google + was opened on 20th September to the public as it challenges Facebook.
But Sean Parker, who owns the part of Facebook, said that Google+ was in no way a threat to Facebook. He said
"Facebook would ...
Oct
18
18
“Buzz”…. Will be shut down.
According to a post on Google’s blog, the online social networking service, “Buzz” will be shut down in next few weeks.
Buzz was launched by Google almost 20 months back in an aim to build a social network to rival Facebook’s online associate, but it
turned out to be a big failure.
The next goal of Google is “Plus”, a three and a half month old service that seems to be more successful. It has already more than forty million users. Larry Page, Google CEO, is confident that it will ...
Oct
12
12
Facebook will begin charging on membership or not.
There is a rumor that Facebook will begin charging for membership, but the company answers the rumor by promising, “It’s free and always will be.”
The rumor was spread by the following message,
“Its official … was even on New … Facebook will start loading due to the profile of the new changes … if you copy the icon wall blue and Facebook will be free for you. Please send this message; otherwise your
Oct
12
12
Josh Holly is guilty to hack Miley’s account.
Miley Cyrus’s email and MySpace account was hacked by a 21-year old Josh Holly. He told the federal judge that he is addicted to internet and pleaded guilty to charges of credit card fraud and hacking. First he was not charged for hacking Cyrus’s account, but then the federal agents found evidence of other crimes against him.
Oct
11
11
“Siri”; a humble Personal assistant
Apple has introduced a new, talking, voice-activated “personal assistant” that will come with its new iPhone 4S.
Greek restaurant in Palo Alto, a monotone female voice responded that she'd found five and had listed them for him in order of their customer-review rankings.
She told Forstall when he had a text message, read it to him, took his "dictation" to respond to ...
Oct
10
10
Just 12 seconds…. And break a password!
Business hosting firm UKFast revealed that hackers can figure out your password in less than 12 seconds, and that is with the help of high street graphics cards costing only £30.
Tests were performed by the company using an Nvidia Geforce GT220 graphics card on
Windows 7 machine. It found that its security staff was able to crack an eight character password in four hours, a seven character password in five minutes and a six character password in just 12 seconds.
The company performed tests which can be bought for ...
Oct
10
10
Window’s start menu replaced by start screen
The Start menu of the Windows has been replaced with a start screen, and the reason for this change is so-called misuse as stated by Microsoft.
According to Microsoft's Chaitanya Sareen
"The taskbar has evolved to replace many aspects of the Start menu. You can even
the taskbar reveals many of the weaknesses of the Start menu and that the menu is no longer as valuable as it once was long ago."
Sareen showed that the number of items attached on the Start menu is very low, in 40 per cent ...
