06/05/2008 by swordfish.

Yahoo has penned a deal with McAfee to use its SiteAdvisor software to warn users about potentially dangerous websites.

The new security feature will place a red exclamation mark next to search links McAfee believes are involved with spam, phishing or the spread of malicious software.

SiteAdvisor has been available for some time as a browser plugin, but Yahoo says it has been working for almost a year to integrate the technology into its search results. As part of the integration, sites that are found to be automatically installing malicious code, or attempting to exploit browser vulnerabilities, will be completely dropped from search results.

Source: PC Pro

P.S. The QBS PC Help website has been checked by the McAfee SiteAdvisor and it didn’t find any significant problems!

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11/04/2008 by swordfish.

Yahoo may have played a blinder by tying up with Google and hinting at a deal with AOL, but Wall Street still thinks Microsoft will win the takeover battle.

Yahoo announced earlier in the week that it was planning to trial an advertisement sharing scheme with Google, which sent analysts into a spin predicting a possible three way alliance with AOL.

Hours later, Microsoft trumped the announcement with the New York Times reporting that MySpace owner News Corp was in talks to join Microsoft’s bid for the web company. “Everyone is just exploring. The best option is to accept the Microsoft deal. I just see Yahoo as a mature brand and AOL as declining brand” says fund manager Mike Binger at Thrivent Financial, which owns small stakes in Yahoo and Microsoft.

Source: PC Pro

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09/04/2008 by swordfish.

Yahoo has added video sharing to its Flickr photo website in an effort to carve a niche in an on-line arena dominated by Google-owned YouTube.

Short videos can be posted along with pictures on Flickr pages that let users share images photo-album style with select people, as opposed to the way videos are displayed on YouTube for the world to see.

“Flickr is a very different experience from anything else out there,” Flickr director Kakul Srivastava said, demonstrating the video-sharing feature for AFP in the Internet firm’s San Francisco office. “We are not trying to be the highest volume site, but we are trying to be the most interesting, authentic and personal.”

The video-sharing feature rolled out Tuesday in eight languages on Flickr websites worldwide.

Only people with “pro” premium accounts, costing 25 dollars annually, can upload videos to their Flickr pages.

Source: Yahoo News

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07/04/2008 by swordfish.

Yahoo Inc is not opposed to Microsoft Corp’s bid for the Web media company, as long as it is at the right price, Yahoo’s board said on Monday in a letter to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

“We have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders,” the letter said. “Our position is simply that any transaction must be at a value that fully reflects the value of Yahoo, including any strategic benefits to Microsoft, and on terms that provide certainty to our stockholders.”

Source: Yahoo News UK

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05/03/2008 by swordfish.

Google has launched its Google Gears for Mobile browser extension for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, which allows users to access their web-based applications even when they are offline. This could mean that when there is no wireless access, or the network is experiencing delays, applications will still work.

The application won’t work with devices running Opera or other web browsers, however, which rules out the iPhone and some other devices.

Meanwhile, Yahoo has developed a new bookmarking tool, Yahoo onePlace, which keeps track of web favourites, such as news feeds, sites, images, video, etc from a single place on their mobile device. Yahoo onePlace will be available in the second quarter of 2008.

Source: ZDNet

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11/02/2008 by swordfish.

Yahoo on Monday rejected Microsoft Corp’s unsolicited takeover bid, currently valued at $42 billion (22 billion pounds), as too low, saying its board had unanimously concluded it was not in the best interests of shareholders.

In a statement, Yahoo said the offer “substantially undervalues” the company.

If completed, a merger of Microsoft and Yahoo would be the world’s largest of two computer technology companies and would create a formidable rival to Internet search and advertising leader Google.

Source: Yahoo News

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