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Yahoo Mail outages plague some users
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 Social Search Arrives to Surface Content From Twitter, FriendFeed, Yelp
Google launches Google Social Search from Google Labs Oct. 26. The experiment is designed to make search results more relevant by mining the rich Google profile information users provide. This includes all Gmail contacts and Gmail chat buddies, as well and people users are publicly connected to on social sites such as Twitter and FriendFeed. [...]
Universal phone charger OK’d
The Universal Charging Solution will enable the creation of one-size-fits-all chargers that can be used on any future phone, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a branch of the United Nations. A standard for a universal phone charger was approved this week by the International… More: continued here
EU Strategist Claims an Oracle-owned MySQL Cannot Be Competitive
UPDATED: Former MySQL business adviser Florian Mueller and members of the EC believe that Oracle owning MySQL through its acquisition of Sun is a colossal conflict of interest, since Oracle would suddenly become the new owner of its biggest open-source competitor — one that has 6 million installations and is gaining thousands more each month. [...]
Is the cloud a better place for our data?
As consumers, we have two options of storing our digital data: locally or elsewhere in the cloud. IntraLinks’ Mushegh Hakhinian says it’s like storing your savings in a mattress or a bank. Commentary- Data loss is an all too common a theme in the news these days. The recent… More: continued here
Ad-Aware Plus Adds Features Above The Free Version–But Is It Better?
This for-pay version of the popular antispyware program Ad-Aware includes antivirus protection. More: continued here
Notify Makes It Easier to Keep an Eye on Gmail
If you use Gmail for your primary e-mail account, but don’t access it using a dedicated email client (or a dedicated Gmail app such as Mailplane), you know how… More: continued here
Implementing a sensible copyright: “FLOW-IT”
It can be hard to get paid for producing free-licensed works. Software represents a niche where a lot of exceptions can be found, but for aesthetic works, the problem is severe. This has spurred a lot of innovative ideas for better incentive systems. Along the way, though, the most obvious and simple solution has mostly [...]