Michael Jackson’s stunning death made him Yahoo’s biggest star this year. The quest to find out what happened to Jackson in his final hours on June 25 and celebrate his legacy elevated the late entertainer to the top of the Internet company’s annual breakdown of the most frequent online search requests. The self-proclaimed King of [...]
Nokia’s N900, the next tablet/smartphone/whatever to bat against Apple’s iPhone, ships today. It’s a big occasion for Nokia, as the N900 is its most powerful smartphone yet, and the device’s Maemo 5 open source operating system is a diversion from Symbian, which Nokia tends to support. I’ve been intrigued by the N900 since Nokia announced [...]
Google has decided to release as open source several of its key application development tools, hoping that they will prove useful for external programmers to build faster Web applications. Google has used the tools in some of its most popular Web applications, including Gmail, Google Docs and Google Maps, said Amit Agarwal, a Google product [...]
A Motorola Droid smart phone goes on sale Friday, joining the growing ranks of smart phones on the open-source operating system backed by Google. With Droid, which will work on the Verizon telecom network, Motorola is taking on mobile devide powerhouses such as Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion (RIM). “People are gravitating to Android [...]
WarMouse, in collaboration with the OpenOffice.org community, revealed on Friday a new open-source mouse developed specifically for users of the OpenOffice suite. The corded pointing device, memorably dubbed the OpenOfficeMouse, features an unconventional amount of inputs, and will no-doubt be more than welcome in the line-up of the worlds weirdest mice. It packs in a [...]
Yahoo shut down GeoCities the site that offered a free platform for users to create their own Web sites during the dot-com boom. Yahoo paid $4.5 billion for it. The closure of GeoCities marks the end of an era, as the Internet community says goodbye to the pioneering Web… More: continued here
Scattered reports say the world’s most widely used e-mail service was suffering from scattered outages on Monday morning. Yahoo Mail users reported problems Monday morning, with the service inaccessible for some and spotty for others. TechCrunch noticed a Twitter spike in reports of problems with Yahoo… More: continued here
Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a Mapquest map of the area. Google is Wal-Mart’s computer. Type in a UPC bar code number, such as “036000250015, ” to see the description of the product you’ve just “scanned in.” (Thanks to the Google Blog, http://google. blogspace. com , for [...]
T his is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around “electric curtains,” Google won’t waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word “electric” and another set containing the word “curtains.” Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word [...]
Sun Microsystems has announced plans to cut approximately 3,000 jobs over the next 12 months to better align resources with its strategic business objectives due to delay in the closing of its $7.4bn acquisition by Oracle. Skip related content The jobs cuts will take place across the North America, EMEA, APAC and Emerging Markets regions. [...]
Nslookup command is used to test the Dns , Queries a name server for a host or domain lookup.NSLOOKUP was originally written on a Unix system, and so is easily run on most Linux variants by simply typing “nslookup” on the command line. On Windows systems you need to search your computer for the program [...]
Yahoo’s revenue dips 12 percent from a year ago, but net income is up by 244 percent. More: continued here
The results topped forecasts, but suggest that Yahoo was not benefiting from the prospect of an economic rebound as much as Google. More: continued here
Carol Bartz, the chief executive of Yahoo, says that immediate feedback is important for employees. More: continued here
An ad association has asked the Department of Justice to approve the deal proposed by Microsoft and Yahoo. More: continued here