Yahoo Inc. has released a rosy outlook for the next two years, hoping to give investors a better understanding of why the slumping Internet pioneer isn’t willing to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.
Analysts interpreted the company’s unscheduled disclosure yesterday as a sign that Yahoo’s attempts to find an alternative deal to […]
Google lost its bid to get European Union-wide trademark protection for “Gmail,” the name of its Web-based e-mail service. The Gmail name is too similar to an existing German trademark, according to a ruling by the EU’s trademark agency published on its Web site. Google has been blocked from getting the EU rights to the […]
A man in Australia is auctioning his life - his house, his job, his clothes and his friends - on eBay, after his marriage broke up, saying he wants to start a new life.
“It’s time to move. A completely fresh start. I want to see where life takes me,” Ian Usher, 44, told Australian television […]
China has blocked access to YouTube after dozens of videos of the protests in Tibet appeared on the popular website.
The blocking added to the communist government’s efforts to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted on Friday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, against Chinese rule.
Access to YouTube, usually readily available in […]
Skype has long been the champion of free internet voice chat. Much like instant messaging, it lets you catch up with internet buddies anywhere in the world for next to nix.
Provided, that is, both of you are parked in front of your computers wearing headsets, receptionist-style. Not always convenient; not very 2008 either.
This model is […]
Motorists are being warned that thieves who steal GPS devices from cars could then use the device to find out where the car owner lives and rob their home as well.
Most users program the electronic mapping devices with their home address so the gizmo can map out the quickest route to where the owner lives.
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AOL has made its social networking move, acquiring Bebo and getting access to its membership of 40 million worldwide.
In a statement Thursday, AOL said Bebo is a “perfect complement to AOL’s personal communications network and puts us in a leading position in social media.â€
Indeed, Bebo does make AOL a player in social networking (see Techmeme). […]
Google is expected to receive unconditional approval from European Union regulators next week for its $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick, a Reuters report said.
Citing sources familiar with the situation, the Reuters report also said the approval has long been expected because the European Commission decided in January not to object formally to the […]
One of Yahoo’s potential white knights in its struggle to avoid being taken over by Microsoft just put his charger back in the stable.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch told a Bear Stearns conference in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday that he’s not going to battle the Redmond, Wash., software giant for Yahoo.
“It would be fun to […]
You’ve likely received them before, an email from Africa (usually Nigeria) asking for your help in transferring millions of dollars into your account with no strings attached. Except you know it’s a scam and the email ends up in your spam box. But some do take the bait and fall victim to these international scammers […]
The Federal Trade Commission is cautioning consumers looking forward to rebate checks from the government that they may be targets of scammers out to steal their identity. The agency has issued an alert to help consumers avoid this situation.
The schemes work like this: consumers get a call or an e-mail claiming to be from the […]
E-mail scams have taken a new and ominous tone.
“I am very sorry for you is (sic) a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don’t comply,” the e-mail begins. “Someone you call a friend wants you Dead by all means.”
It goes on to say the writer has […]
A famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993 showed two dogs at a computer, with one saying to the other, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
That may no longer be true.
A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more than ever before the gritty details of what people […]
An international gang of fraudsters is ripping off bank customers at ATMs across Sydney, using high-tech devices to copy card details and access their accounts.
More than 100 customers of one bank lost money after their cards were “skimmed” at ATMs.
The crooks place dummy card scanners over the slot where cards go into the ATM to […]