Yahoo For Good: You In?
Yahoo is running a new campaign online to encourage web users to indulge in acts of kindness.
This new project is named You In? And it is part of their Yahoo for Good section.
Yahoo is asking you to share your acts of kindness which are displayed on a public [...]
Yahoo Go shutting down next year
Yahoo has announced that they would shut down their Yahoo GO service next year.
This mobile service was launched by the internet media giant way back in 2006.
Yahoo has not updated it in months now and it would now shut down on January 12, 2010.
Yahoo Go has [...]
Google Android now has access to Fring mobile app
Fring has released their mobile application for the Google Android mobile platform.
Incidentally, Fring is already available on several other mobile platforms like Apple iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile.
Google Android version was much awaited and it has finally arrived.
Fring allows the user to communicate [...]
Yahoo Messenger 10 out of beta now
Yahoo has taken the latest version of their Yahoo Messenger application out of beta.
Yahoo Messenger 10 is now available as a free download. It replaces Yahoo Messenger 9 as their primary instant messaging offering.
Yahoo Messenger 10 is not a ground breaking upgrade. But it does improve [...]
Flickr collaborates with Snapfish for prints
Good news for Flickr fans in as many as 22 countries. They can now order their prints directly from Flickr through their collaboration with Snapfish.
Snapfish would deliver the prints in all the markets they operate in. This provide Flickr with a pretty impressive coverage.
You can order a [...]
Rasmus Lerdorf leaves Yahoo
Rasmus Lerdorf is known as the founder of PHP programming language which is very popular online.
He had been working with Yahoo since 2002 but left the company recently.
Yahoo has been making news in the recent times for high profile resignations.
This is just the latest.
Yahoo itself uses a lot [...]
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ReoCities: A project that was started to restore GeoCities
Yahoo shut down their GeoCities service a couple of days ago.
With this, we lost one of the most popular online brands of the 1990s.
ReoCities was a project started [...]
Yahoo Mail not working for some users
If we are to believe the reports from Twitter, Yahoo Mail is currently suffering from accessibility problems.
Yahoo Mail is one of the most popular webmail services with more than 300 million active users worldwide.
Google Gmail usually makes news for such kind of accessibility problems. Looks like [...]
Yahoo Geocities shutting down tomorrow
Yahoo would turn off the plug on their Geocities web service which has enabled millions of users to host a website on the web for free.
The service began as Beverly Hills Internet way back in 1994. It was one of the first to offer free hosting space online for [...]
Flickr finally has face tagging feature!
Yahoo owned photo sharing service Flickr has finally added a face tagging feature.
There is no face recognition technology though. You would have to manually tag faces with names.
The feature was made popular by services like Facebook. Picasa and Apple iPhoto have it with recognition capabilities.
Flickr said that [...]
