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Yahoo Greetings from the Yahoo Roof Party

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.

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Did Yahoo Groups Glitch Leads to Overloaded Inboxes

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.

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Yahoo Offers Unlimited Email Storage

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!

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Is Flixster a Big Fat Spammer? Are They Accessing Your AOL or Hotmail Address Book? The Answer to at Least One of These is Yes!

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?

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Online Maps and Directions Blamed for Man’s Death in Snowy Oregon

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?

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Yahoo Video Site – Yahoo Current TV Network – to Compete with Google YouTube Sites

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.

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Today (Friday, 9/22) Only! Get Free Iced Coffee at Dunkin Donuts Courtesy of Yahoo!

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.

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Are You Entitled to a Piece of the Settlement in the Class Action Suit Against Yahoo by Checkmate?

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.

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Yahoo Offers Popular Music Downloads with No Digital Rights Management – “DRM Doesn’t Add Any Value” says Yahoo

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.

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New Yahoo Worm Targets All Yahoo Email – Yamanner Worm Has No Manners at All

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.

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Yahoo VoIP “Voice Phone Out” and “Voice Phone In” Services Announced

With the announcement of Yahoo Voice Phone Out and Yahoo Voice Phone In, Yahoo has launched their VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services.

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“Net Neutrality” Explained

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”.

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Yahoo Bans Any Username Containing “Allah”

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”.

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Yahoo Messenger Phishing Scam Takes Victims to Yahoo Photos Website

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.”

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Feds Demand Your Search Records from Google in Lawsuit Where Your Privacy Gives Way to Witch Hunt for Child Porn Searchers

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.