Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all signed on to the Global Initiative Network, pledging to protect the privacy of their users around the world, including - perhaps particularly - users in countries such as China, where demands that ISPs rat out their users are routinely made.
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Articles on YahooGoogle, Microsoft and Yahoo have all signed on to the Global Initiative Network, pledging to protect the privacy of their users around the world, including - perhaps particularly - users in countries such as China, where demands that ISPs rat out their users are routinely made. Over the weekend, Yahoo quietly "upgraded" their profile system, resulting, intentionally, in a great deal of user data - specifically profile and alias data - being removed. In a move that can only be described as, at best, disingenuous, Microsoft testified this week before the U.S. Congress that if Yahoo were allowed to partner with Google in a search advertising deal, it would, they implied, be an illegal monopoly. Oh, right, but if Microsoft buys Yahoo for the very same reason, that's ok?? You can say one thing for Carl Ichan - he doesn't give up. Icahn, currently embroiled in his own takeover bid for Yahoo's board, is also fomenting Microsoft's efforts to acquire Yahoo - or at least part of Yahoo - again. A group calling itself "Friends of Yahoo" has initiated an online petition to stop a small group of hostile stockholders from forcing Yahoo to sell itself to Microsoft, and to "Let Yahoo Be Yahoo". (Sign the 'Let Yahoo Be Yahoo" Petition here.) According to a tip received by the Internet Patrol, the resident evil behind the throngs of social networking and other sites that are tricking people into logging into their AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail accounts, and scraping their address book, has a name, and that name is Sigma Visual Technologies. Sigma Visual Technologies provides software that allows sites to get their users to import and email all of their contacts in their address books. Put another way, it lets these sites scrape and spam your contacts. In your name! Here's a good question: Why use the + when searching on the Internet? (I.e., why use the plus sign when searching on the Internet?) If you are finding "SlurpConfirm404", "SlurpConfirm404.htm", "SlurpConfirm404.html" or "SlurpConfirm404.php" in your log files, and can't figure out why, you're not alone. Here's what that SlurpConfirm404 is all about. The lawsuit against Yahoo over the jailing of two Chinese journalist whom they helped the government of China to identify has been settled, after Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang met with the families of the two journalists. In a rush of pollyanic* optimism, their lawyer says "It's no longer possible for a corporation to say 'We were just following orders'." The mega popular Facebook site has joined the ranks of social networking sites that trick you into providing your password so that they can steal your AOL , Yahoo, MSN, or other address book, and spam all of your contacts. Only this time it's with a twist - they are actually spamming your AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) contacts in your Buddy List! The spam starts out like this: "According to his Facebook status, Friend's Name (their username) is now "Friend's Nickname". Friend invites you to join Facebook and keep up with what he and your other friends are doing." What we want to know is WHY are AOL, Yahoo, and MSN continuing to let this go on? For the third time in as many months, Hotmail is down, and users across the country cannot get to the Hotmail servers to read and retrieve their email. Users across the world are flocking to our site, searching for information and help with queries such as "hotmail down", "hotmail down?", "hotmail is down", "is hotmail down", "is hotmail down?", "hotmail servers down", "hotmail down today", "hotmail servers", and "hotmail outage". If this has affected you, then it probably really is time to switch to Gmail or Yahoo. Yahoo has just rolled out a brand new version of Yahoomail, which allows users to both send email to cell phones, and receive email from cell phones, through a text message like interface. Have you ever found yourself booted out of Yahoo Chat and you have no idea why? It may be that you have crossed paths with a so-called "Yahoo booter". Yahoo booters are people who, for whatever reason, will flood your yahoochat session with data, causing you to get dumped out of Yahoochat. Yahoo booting is done typically to annoy or harass the Yahoo booters target. If you must have free email, we strongly recommend switching from Hotmail to another free email service provider such as Yahoo, AOL, or Gmail. We personally recommend either Yahoo or AOL. The mother of a Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was jailed for ten years by the Chinese government after Yahoo cooperated with Chinese authorities and revealed Shi Tao's identity and personal details to them, is suing Yahoo in U.S. Federal court. The popular Yahoo.maps service got a facelift a few weeks ago, as the maps Yahoo offers were ported to a spiffy new platform, offering more features and a new look. New features enjoyed by the Yahoo maps system include the ability to get driving directions within 34 countries in Europe, terrain overlays, and enhanced printing capabilities. Yahoo.maps may be found directly at maps.yahoo.com (not yahoomaps.com, although that is a common mistake). Choose either maps.yahoo.com/broadband for the feature rich version, or maps.yahoo.com/dialup for the old, simpler version. If a Yahoo photos worth a thousand words, this one must be saying "party x 1000". If the Yahoo images that come to mind generally are of harried system administrators or pocket-protected geeks, think again. Because that's a roof party on Yahoo real estate, about to happen. We hope that our friends at Yahoo enjoy, because we know that they work hard fighting spam and dealing with other email and Internet maladies, so they deserve it. Of course, with temperatures in the 90s as it has been this week, they may prefer a Yahoo pool party to a Yahoo roof party. The Internet Patrol has started receiving reports that something has gone amiss over at Yahoo Groups, with as many as a dozen or more of each message being delivered, causing user's inboxes to be overloaded, and group moderators to receive several copies of even administrative requests. Yahoo has just announced that all of their users will have unlimited email storage capacity available to them by May. And that it will be free! Recently I started getting invitations to join Flixster from complete strangers. Obviously, this was spam, but why were these complete strangers sending it to me? And why were they always from AOL and Hotmail? Now people are asking - is Flixstr accessing your AOL and Hotmail contacts list and spamming them in your name? James Kim, his wife Katie, and his two daughters, found themselves snowbound and stranded on Bear Camp Road, between Grants Pass and Gold Beach, Oregon. But were they mislead by an online mapping service such as Google Maps? Yahoo has launched their own Yahoo video site - known as a the Yahoo Current Network - in conjunction with the Current TV network. Being called by some just "Yahoo TV", and similar to Google Video, and the wildly popular YouTube (recently aquired by Google) in that users can upload their own content, the Yahoo Current network is being marketed in a decidely more slick and commercial manner. Yahoo is giving away a free Dunkin Donuts ice coffee, today (Friday, 9/22) only! Visitors to the Yahoo website will be able to print out a coupon for a free iced coffee at Dunkin Donuts, just for having gone to the website. Last month it was announced that Yahoo had settled the case brought against it by CheckMate Strategic Group. Whether the clickfraud at Yahoo was as bad as CheckMate alleged, if at all, Yahoo has chosen to settle the case. This week email notices went out to individuals and businesses who may be eligible to request their share of the settlement. In case you didn't get a notice and think that you should have - or in case you're just curious - here is a copy of the notice. Yahoo has started offering DRM-free (free of Digital Rights Management software) music. "Our position is simple: DRM doesn't add any value for the artist, label, or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies..." says Yahoo. A new Yahoo worm being called the "Yamanner worm" is targeting all of Yahoo email; in fact the only version of the Yahoo email program which is at present safe from the Yamanner Yahoo email worm is a not yet fully released beta version of Yahoo mail. Ok, even sometimes the Internet Patrol gets to give in to whimsy and silliness. We saw this headline on Yahoo news, and we just had to ask - isn't there a noun missing from the end of the headline? With the announcement of Yahoo Voice Phone Out and Yahoo Voice Phone In, Yahoo has launched their VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services. What is "net neutrality"? We've been getting a lot of questions asking us to explain what this new term, "net neutrality" means. So we will. It all started with the introduction of the "Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006". Yahoo is being accused of banning the name "Allah" as or in any Yahoo username, and it looks as if the accusations are true. Nobody has been able to register any username containing the string "allah". People using Yahoo Messenger are receiving Yahoo instant message phishes which are realistic enough to reel in their victims. The phishy Yahoo messenger messages offer up a link to what appears to be a Yahoo Photos website, saying "click on this website." The Feds want your search records from Google, in a lawsuit designed to prove how much searching there is being done for child pornography. Should you be worried? You bet you should. And guess what. AOL, MSN and Yahoo have already given those records up. Yahoo's new Yahoo Shoposphere is part online shopping, part blog community. Shared pick lists allow Shoposphere shoppers to see what others recommend. Tivo owners can now program their Tivos through Yahoo! TV's web interface, selecting shows for recording right from the comfort of their own computer screen. Free email providers get far more out of free email services than do the users of the free email services. The Yahoo online travel guide has expanded to include not only online travel planning, but shareable online travel planning with Trip Planner Beta, which allows you to tag, share, and print your travel itinerary. "Richard Bangs Adventures" by Yahoo is an adventure travel website, profiling a different adventure and adventurer each month. Yahoo has just raised the price of music downloads, doubling the fee for their Yahoo Music Unlimited music downloading service. Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and Gmail access is being denied to military personnel in the Navy and the Marines who are stationed overseas. The military has blocked access from all government-owned computers, citing concerns about computer security and viruses. Yahoo chat rooms have been closed off to anyone under the age of eighteen, following an agreement between Yahoo and NY's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer. "We need to be vigilant to protect our children," says Spitzer Formal Announcement of the Microsoft Instant Messenger and Yahoo IM Partnership comes from Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo IM and MSN Instant Messenger are about to start talking to each other, so that users of one service can easily chat with their friends on the other service. |
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