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Yahoo! Launches Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger Apps for Android

July 2, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Also Debuts New Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News HTML5 Mobile Websites for iPhone;
Yahoo! Search Widget for Android
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
In continuing to develop leading mobile products and services that reach a broad
audience across multiple platforms, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today expanded the
reach of its industry-leading services with the immediate availability of Yahoo!
Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android as well as a Yahoo! Search Widget for
Android.

Leveraging the latest HTML5 technology, Yahoo! is also debuting faster and
richer Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News sites for iPhone and iPod Touch. These new
mobile products will provide the hundreds of millions of loyal consumers who
rely on Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Search, and News with seamless, integrated
experiences on their mobile devices.

“Yahoo! keeps more than 600 million consumers around the world connected to the
people and things that matter to them most – wherever and whenever they want,”
said David Ko, senior vice president, Americas, Audience, Mobile, and Local for
Yahoo!. “With the availability of our world-class Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo!
Messenger apps for Android and by harnessing the latest in HTML5, we`re making
it easier than ever for consumers to access fast, reliable, and feature-rich
Yahoo! experiences across some of the fastest growing platforms in the market.”

Easy Access to Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger on Android

With a visually stunning interface as well as new functionality and other
enhancements optimized for the Android platform, the Yahoo! apps for Android
provide more than 300 million Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger users with the
best communication experience for easily accessing and sharing information on
Android phones.

The Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger Android apps are available globally as free
downloads available in the Android Market, supporting OS 2.0 or newer.

With the new Yahoo! Mail App for Android, consumers can:

* Receive push notification of new email messages
* Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as to contacts in
the native phone address book
* Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords
* Upload photos as attachments directly from the phone`s camera or the photo
gallery
* View and download attachments
* Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails
* Effectively manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders, and spam
* Easily toggle between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps

In addition to providing a robust consumer experience, the Yahoo! Mail app for
Android offers advertisers an opportunity to reach a highly engaged mobile
audience. Samsung is the inaugural advertiser with a rich media display
advertising unit.

With the new Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, consumers can:

* Easily message friends, check friends` status updates and availability and
update their personal status and availability
* Send instant messages to friends via SMS text message1
* Multitask and stay connected with the app working in the background; with push
notifications, consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests
* Get full use of emoticons and rich text formatting
* Send photos to friends directly from the phone`s camera or the photo gallery

Also available today, the Yahoo! Search Widget for Android provides consumers
with convenient one-click access to Yahoo! Search. After the Widget is
installed, a Yahoo! Search box is easily accessible on the home screen. With
voice search for easier input, Search Assist for quick suggestions and
recommendations, and auto-locate technology to deliver locally relevant results,
the Yahoo! Search Widget quickly provides the answers a consumer needs.

The Yahoo! Search Widget is currently available in the U.S. only for free. It is
available for download in the Android Market and supports OS 2.0 or newer.

Upgraded Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News for iPhone and iPod Touch

Harnessing the latest technology, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News are now built on
HTML5 to give consumers a faster and more sophisticated mobile browsing
experience.

The upgraded Yahoo! Mail offers consumers a webmail experience that is fast and
reliable and that easily surfaces rich content. Now available globally in 28
languages across 200 countries, Yahoo! Mail is optimized for iPhone and iPod
Touch and is expected to be available across other Webkit-enabled browsers in
the future.

With HTML5 Yahoo! Mail consumers can:

* View HTML messages; compose rich text messages, reply, search emails, and
access folders while offline
* Manage folders and create smart folders with messages from key contacts
* Surface photos and video attachments directly within the mail preview
* Enjoy a seamless experience with Yahoo! Mail across mobile and desktop

Additionally, now Yahoo! News includes an all-new layout with animated visual
effects and navigation that uses touch gestures to deliver a compelling news
experience. Yahoo! brings the news to life with photos, slideshows, and video
features, and provides consumers with an option to explore related articles.
Currently available in the U.S. on the iPhone or iPod Touch browser, the product
is expected to become available in additional countries and on additional
devices.

For more information about the products and services, visit Yahoo.com and search
for: “Yahoo! and Mobile”

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative
technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most visited
Internet destinations and a world-class online media company. Yahoo!’s vision is
to be the center of people’s online lives by delivering personally relevant,
meaningful Internet experiences. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
California. For more information, visit http://pressroom.yahoo.com, the
company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal (http://yodel.yahoo.com) or the Yahoo! Mobile
blog (http://ymobileblog.com). (YHOO — M)

1 Users may send SMS text messages only to their contacts in the following
countries: Canada, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan,
Thailand, United States and Vietnam.

Yahoo!
Cory Pforzheimer, 408-349-2686
coryp@yahoo-inc.com
Jason Khoury, 408-349-3435
jkhoury@yahoo-inc.com

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Former Yahoo! and BEA Executive Joins Cloudera Board of Directors

June 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jun 02 (MARKET WIRE) —
Cloudera, the commercial Apache Hadoop company, today announced that
software industry veteran Scott Dietzen is joining its Board of
Directors. A former senior executive at Yahoo!, Zimbra and BEA Systems,
Dietzen brings a wealth of experience and leadership to Cloudera.

“Dietzen had a hand in establishing the web application platform category
with WebLogic and in the open source and Web 2.0 waves with Zimbra,” said
Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera. “His experience growing innovative tech
startups into wildly successful software businesses will be a tremendous
asset to Cloudera.”

Dietzen has extensive leadership experience, having helped build, sell,
and transition three major Internet technology companies. Most recently,
he was SVP, Applications at Yahoo!, where his responsibilities included
Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra. He came to
Yahoo! via the acquisition of open source email startup Zimbra, where he
served as President and CTO. Before that Dietzen was CTO of BEA Systems
– acquired by Oracle in 2008 — which he came to with the acquisition of
Java and web application server pioneer WebLogic. Dietzen holds a Ph.D.
in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.

“I have been very lucky in getting to work with hugely talented teams on
transformative technologies that address essential and growing business
needs,” said Dietzen. “Cloudera is in precisely this sweet spot — the
Hadoop technology family has the chance to redefine how enterprises deal
with exponentially growing data, and thereby deliver substantially more
compelling and more customized products and services.”

Cloudera provides products, professional services, technical support and
training that complement the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software
package, enabling enterprises to lower their data-processing costs and
get more value from the information they collect and generate. Hadoop is
widely used in finance, government, telecom, media and entertainment,
technology, research institutions and other markets.

About Cloudera
Cloudera (www.cloudera.com), the commercial Hadoop
company, delivers the scalable platform for a new generation of
data-intensive applications. Founded by leading experts on big data from
Facebook, Google, Oracle and Yahoo!, Cloudera helps traditional
enterprises tap into the power of Hadoop. Headquartered in Silicon
Valley, Cloudera has financial backing from Accel Partners, Greylock
Partners and angel investors who include Diane Greene (former CEO of
VMware), Marten Mickos (former CEO of MySQL), and Jeff Weiner (CEO of
LinkedIn).

Media Contact
Ray George
Page One PR
Phone: 650-922-3825
Email: ray@pageonepr.com

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Former Yahoo! and BEA Executive Joins Cloudera Board of Directors

June 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Media Contact
Ray George
Page One PR
Phone: 650-922-3825
Email: ray@pageonepr.com

Microsoft’s Hotmail gets a makeover

May 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 19 (ANI): IT giant Microsoft has decided to give Hotmail, its free email service, a makeover, in an attempt to retain its market share over rivals Google’s Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

The makeover goes live in either July or August of this year and will allow users to view or edit sent documents using web versions of its Office software, reports the Telegraph.

This will allow users to preview and collaborate on documents in real-time, while saving them in the cloud – a service already provided by Gmail through Google Docs.

A new feature that will be incorporated in Hotmail is ‘Active View’ – a function that will allow users to preview photo attachments and view them as a slide show with a single click.

They can also watch videos, which have been sent using links, to a site such as YouTube, without leaving the inbox.

Hotmail users will be able to see their inbox in different ways – either to show messages only received by a user’s contacts, or only unread messages.

Bing, Microsoft”s search engine, which has been integrated further into the email experience – will appear with a new “from Bing” feature which lets users search for images, videos, or any other content which they may wish to share, and embed the material into an email with one click.

Additional capabilities such as enhanced account protection and increased storage levels will also be looked at.

Walt Harp, one of Windows Live’s directors said that the makeover was to help Hotmail users to become better equipped to deal with the huge amounts of information flowing through their inboxes on a daily basis. (ANI)

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Judge in Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case denies motion challenging computer search

April 9, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

FBI agents did not violate alleged hacker David Kernell’s Fourth Amendment rights when they searched through the entire contents of his computer in connection with their investigation, a federal magistrate judge ruled this week in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case .

In a 41-page ruling this week, Judge Clifford Shirley in Knoxville denied Kernell’s motions to quash the information gathered from those searches and said that no unreasonable search or seizure had taken place, as Kernell had claimed.

In throwing out Kernell’s motion to quash, Judge Shirley noted that numerous courts have previously ruled it unnecessary for warrants authorizing the search of a computer, to have language specifying how the search should be conducted.

“Contrary to Defendant’s argument, [the executing officer] seized all of the computer equipment, not each individual file,” the judge noted. “This was proper because all of the computer equipment and storage devices were within the scope of the search warrant.”

The agent conducting the search acted reasonably and “his examination of each file on Defendant’s computers and storage media was reasonable and necessary,” the judge said.

Kernell, 22, is alleged to have broken into then Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account in Sept. 2008, when she was Sen. John McCain’s running mate in the presidential elections. He is then alleged to have publicly posted screen shots of several messages from her account.

Kernell was initially charged in October 2008, with a single county of felony unauthorized access of a computer. In Feb 2009, Kernell was charged with identity theft, wire fraud, computer fraud and anticipatory obstruction of justice in a four-count superseding indictment.

Kernell, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student at the time of the incident, is the son of a Democratic state legislator from Memphis . After his indictment, Kernell has filed several motions challenging various aspects of the case against him.

In his motion to suppress the information gathered from the computer searches, Kernell claimed that the government agents had exceeded the scope of the warrant by searching the entire contents of the computer.

He claimed that the searches of his computer were in violation of Fourth Amendment protections and a particular provision in the Federal Rules of Criminal procedure. Kernell argued that agents should have carried out a “particularized search” for the specific information they were looking for, rather than the broad search that was conducted.

The government for its part responded by claiming that the seizure and search of Kernell’s laptop was constitutional. They argued that Fourth Amendment protections do not require search warrants to specify the precise manner in which searches should be carried out.

Judge Shirley’s ruling on the matter is the latest pre-trial setback for Kernell. Last week, the judge denied another motion by Kernell seeking to quash a search warrant for ISP records from Yahoo, which is based in California.

Kernell had challenged the authority of a court in Tennessee to issue a search warrant for an entity based in California. Prior to that ruling, the judge had issued another ruling which basically allows the government obstruction of justice charge against Kernell to stand.

Kernell is currently out on bond. His trial is scheduled to begin later this month.

Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy issues, financial services security and e-voting for Computerworld . Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at @jaivijayan or subscribe to Jaikumar’s RSS feed . His e-mail address is jvijayan@computerworld.com .

Read more about cybercrime and hacking in Computerworld’s Cybercrime and Hacking Knowledge Center.

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Teens prefer free news and aggregation websites

April 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 12 (ANI): A newspaper study has revealed that teenagers think that news is a free commodity and they love aggregation sites.

The findings may acts as a bad news for online newspapers as two of the big industry ideas right now are-charge for content, and put the aggregators out of business.

“Not only are teens not rushing to pay for content, but they also struggle to envision in what realm they would need to pay for content,” Wired News quoted the study as stating.

Conducted for the NAA by Northwestern University’s Media Management Center, the study claimed that teenagers are less interested in news brands than a site’s usability and depth of content.

The study said: “Ask teens where they find news, and they typically say Yahoo!, Google, AOL or MSN. Sometimes, they mean Yahoo! and other times they mean Yahoo! News; sometimes they mean Google, the search bar, and other times they mean Google News or iGoogle. And sometimes they say MSN but mean MSNBC.com.

“Whichever option they choose, it’s clear that they believe such aggregators, portals and search engines serve them well. They like their brevity and compact approach.”

The study detailed how the kids today want their news to be packaged online.

The teenagers want the news providers to reduce the volume of information and craved a “top headlines” approach and “a simplified overview of the news they often find at Yahoo, Google, AOL and their e-mail providers.”

It should provide “an adequate sense of the news” on its own. News providers should include a brief summary with each headline, which should preferably be comprised in a single sentence.Get rid of clutter, like little video boxes, small ads and tabs.

Although visuals should be included with anything that matters, but photo galleries are no substitute for a story for today’s teens.

The study said: “They want you to take a stand on which stories of the day are most important and to convey what you’ve decided.

“Web usability has long emphasized limiting the number of clicks to reach information, but the degree to which teens want to avoid clicking it noteworthy.”

Teenagers think that the information should be broken up into management chunks, and categories should be limited on the home page and interrupted text should be on story pages. (ANI)

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Palin’s e-mail account hacker faces three fresh charges

March 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Mar. 10 (ANI): Tennessee University student, who was accused of hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account, has been framed with three fresh charges apart from the charge of alleged hacking.

David Kernell, the son of Democratic Tennessee state legislator, was charged with unlawfully transmitting electronic information, fraud and attempting to impede an FBI investigation.

Kernell has pleaded not guilty to the new charges, just as he did after his September arrest, Politico reports.

Kernell allegedly gained access to the e-mails of the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee by correctly answering a series of personal questions.

Afterwards, he reset her password and posted much of her correspondence and content online.

Kernell is believed to have admitted hacking Palin’s e-mail in a post on the website 4chan, by saying: “As many of you might already know, last night Sarah Palin’s yahoo (e-mail account) was ‘hacked’ and (screen) caps were posted. … I am the lurker who did it, and I would like to tell the story.”

If convicted, Kernell may face a 250,000-dollar fine and up to three years in prison.

So far, Palin’s office has not released any statement on the fresh charges. (ANI)

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