Posts tagged yahoo
Yahoo and Microsoft finalize the search deal
Dec 5th
Yahoo and Microsoft have just finalized the search deal, which was announced back in July. The companies have finalized and executed the definitive Search and Advertising Services and Sales Agreement and License Agreement in accordance with the letter agreement announced in July. (Official statement from both the entities mentioned below)
Nokia E71 gets a firmware update
Nov 29th
Own a Nokia E71? Then this post is of particular importance to you. Nokia has rolled out a new firmware update for Nokia E71. The new firmware has the version number 400.21.013. It brings bug fixes, stability improvements, tiny updates for a number of E71 apps such as Ovi Contacts, Nokia Messaging and more. (Full list of features and changes provided below)
Windows Live Messenger comes to Nokia Messaging service
Nov 21st
Is this good news or what? Nokia has added Windows Live Messenger support for Nokia users via Nokia Messaging service. It took the Finnish mobile maker a long time do so, but finally they have done it. Now, Nokia users can access the world’s most popular instant messaging service via Nokia Messaging IM application.
Nokia Messaging offers a desktop-like IM experience on your Nokia device. You can stay in contact with your friends across multiple communities, easily switch between and save conversations and login invisibly.
Fring releases mobile app for Android, calls it Fring for Android
Nov 21st
Finally, fring has done what the Android users were anticipating and waiting for a long time. Yes, fring has just launched fring for Android. The just released fring mobile app for Android enables the Android phone users to chat across multiple IM platforms, call their fellow fringsters and much more. (Features listed below).
Palm rolls out webOS 1.3.1, brings browser cookies support and more
Nov 14th
Palm has just unleashed an update to its latest mobile phone operating system and has named it webOS 1.3.1. webOS 1.3.1 doesn’t bring any new applications. Instead, what it brings is a lot of improvements, fixes and feature enhancements such as playing video in full screen mode (rather than cropping it) and more.
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Yahoo Messenger 10 released, brings support for Windows 7
Nov 13th
Yahoo has just rolled out Yahoo Messenger 10. Yahoo Messenger with version number 10.0.0.110 brings various bug fixes, some of which are related Yahoo’s new video call feature. Also the product’s overall stability has been improved.
Facebook registers a 5 percent growth in U.S. for the month of August
Sep 22nd
comScore just keeps coming up with interesting and valuable statistics. comScore which is a web measurement firm revealed facts that is surely going to please Facebook as well as Facebook fans. ComScore reports that Facebook alone in United States experienced a 5 percent(5.1% to be precise) growth in between the month of July and August. Facebook monthly unique visitors rose from 87.7 million users to 92.2 million. Facebook currently ranks five and this is the second straight month that Facebook has secured or should I say maintained this rank.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL are the sites that stand above Facebook. Also you might be interested to know that Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and AOL have more than 100 million users.
Facebook as an ad network was viewed by 46.7% of the whole US Internet population. in this the month of August.
Not so good month if you see it from MySpace and Twitter‘s perspective. MySpace‘s monthly active users count dropped from 80.9 million monthly users in July to 77.5 million in August. Twitter had 21.2 million visitors in July but that dropped to 20.8 million for the month of August.
Did you think that the post would be complete without informing you guys how Apple is performing. So here it is, Apple ranks 11th in this list not bad ain’t it.
What’s new and changed in Windows Live Wave 4 M1 release
Sep 13th
You probably would be aware of the fact that Windows Live Wave 4 M1 was rolled out. So your next question would be what are the changes that you can expect from the upcoming Windows Live Wave 4 M1 release Do not worry if you don’t see these changes right now. These changes will require a duration of about 3 weeks to reach the global audience. These include:
Changes made for Windows Live Wave 4
Auto Inbox Refresh
Previously Inbox was refreshed after every 60 seconds, however with Wave 4 Inbox will be refreshed when user logs into WebIM.
Auto Save Drafts
Automatically saves emails as drafts as users type them. The current time is set to 3 minutes.
KeyBoard Shortcuts
A huge amount of KeyBoard shortcuts have been added to Wave 4 with an effort to match those of Yahoo and Gmail. Here is the list of all the Hotmail Shortcuts
Download all attachments
If an email contains multiple attachments, then these attachments will be downloaded together as a .zip file
WebIM Contact List
A new feature called “view online contacts” is added to the WebIM Contact List
Mobile browser improvements
Backend changes have been made to improve and optimize mobile performance
Action Bar at bottom of page
Reply/Forward/Delete is now available from both the top and bottom of an email.
Contact Picker Improvements
More than one change has been made to contact picker. These changes are:
- edit contacts in compose
- recent email data used in auto-complete and contact picker
- copy/paste enabled in IE
- a “verify recipients” feature added
Are these all the changes that Wave 4 will bring. Apparently it seems that way. If that’s the case, then it probably would disappoint you once you read these changes. Please do share as to what you feel about these changes.
Ufone blocks Email to SMS service for Gmail users
Aug 27th
The news which I am going to share with you is quite sad, but nevertheless it should be told. Previously it was just Hotmail and Yahoo users who were denied the right of using Ufone‘s Email to SMS service. Now Gmail users are the latest to be hit by this unfortunate event as Ufone has blocked Email to SMS service for Gmail users as well.
Yahoo takes a u-turn advises users to switch to the New, Safer IE8
Aug 21st
You won’t believe it but this is true. All of a sudden, Yahoo has taken a U-turn on its previous stance of “Firefox being a safer and faster browser.” Now it is recommending its users to switch to Microsoft‘s latest browser IE8. Yahoo sees IE8 as a safer browser. About a year back, Yahoo was against Internet Explorer and recommended its users who were using Internet explorer to switch to a “safer and faster firefox”.
Personally I see couple of reasons behind this:
- Just recently IE8 was declared the browser with the best phishing filter, because of which it sees IE8 as a safer browser
- Since Yahoo and Microsoft are now business partners, and Microsoft is paying them, so all of a sudden IE8 becomes a safer browser than others The second reasons simply outclasses and puts the first reason out of picture. It is just my thinking. I am sure you will have your own thoughts. Please do share with us.
