Published by CJS 1 year, 2 months ago
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Yahoo is expanding its online music section to include the lyrics of 400,000 songs, hoping to strike a chord with Web surfers looking for a more reliable alternative to Internet sites that publish the words without the permission of the copyright owners.
Song lyrics have been available through scores of other websites for years, but most of those destinations are technically breaking the law by posting the words without the approval of the publishers and writers that own the rights.
What’s more, many of these unauthorized lyric sites rely on contributions from outsiders, a communal approach that increases the chances for inaccuracies.
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Published by CJS 1 year, 3 months ago
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Yahoo has released a beta version of an Ajax-based search service dubbed “Alpha.” Alpha integrates normal web search results with other search “modules.” Alpha’s default modules include searches of other Yahoo offerings like Flickr, Yahoo News and Yahoo Answers as well as YouTube and Wikipedia.
If you login to a Yahoo account, Alpha can be customized to use any search module you’d like to create. I tried to create a Wired search module but I couldn’t get it to work. However, Alpha had no trouble creating modules to search the BBC and NPR.
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Published by CJS 1 year, 3 months ago
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Yahoo plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly 250 million users, starting in May.The world’s biggest e-mail service is scrapping its free e-mail storage limit of 1 gigabyte, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail.
Microsoft has a 2 gigabyte free e-mail storage limit, while Google caps its Gmail service at 2.8 gigabytes.Officials said the decision to remove e-mail storage limits reflects the plunging cost of storage as new personal computers store up to a trillion bytes of data and owners of 80-gigabyte iPods can carry 100 hours of video in their pockets.[more on yahoo blog]
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Published by CJS 1 year, 4 months ago
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Yahoo has opened up its mobile oneSearch service to anyone with a phone who can access the Internet. The offering was previously available as part of Yahoo Go for Mobile, a mobile phone-optimized content only compatible with certain handsets. Yahoo claims 85% of mobile phones on the market can use the service. OneSearch is initially available to users in the U.S., and Yahoo plans to roll it out in additional languages and countries in the coming months.
In a bold move, Yahoo has placed a button called “Dare to Compare” on the oneSearch Web site which opens a 21-page document containing screen shots that compare the results of a Google mobile search with a Yahoo oneSearch mobile search. Rather than displaying lists of links as search results, oneSearch pulls up a range of results, including news headlines, images, business listings, and reviews.
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Published by CJS 1 year, 4 months ago
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During Holi Festival, Yahoo Messenger service is offering free calls to India to its phone out service subscribers. Holi, known as the Festival of Colors, is an annual spring celebration that takes place in India.
Usual Yahoo! Messenger calling rates to India during the week of Holi will be reduced to 4.9¢ a minute. Even after Holi ends, they are introducing new lower rate of just 7.9¢ a minute on calls to India.
If you want to make calls to landlines and mobile phones, you need a Phone Out account. Yahoo Messenger lets you make PC-to-phone calls to and from countries around the world with great rates on domestic and international calls Continue reading ‘Free Phone Calls to India on Holi by Yahoo Messenger’
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Published by CJS 1 year, 5 months ago
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Yahoo the world’s largest consumer e-mail provider, on Monday said it has embedded instant messaging features inside its e-mail program, bridging a generational divide that has confused many users.
Heavy Internet users, especially younger, Web-savvy users of social networking sites or office workers, have long toggled between e-mail and instant messaging services.
But for more occasional users of consumer e-mail services, the allure of instant messaging has remained far from obvious.
Consumers can now run the two programs in one Web browser. There is no need to download Yahoo Messenger software, a complication for users who are not technically inclined.
Each instant messaging dialogue will take place in a new conversation window within Yahoo Mail, allowing people to chat with multiple friends simultaneously, without leaving e-mail.
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Published by CJS 1 year, 5 months ago
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Yahoo said Tuesday that it planned to build individual Web sites around 100 entertainment “brands” this year that would pull together content from the company’s sprawling array of online properties.
The effort, called Brand Universe, is intended to create online destinations that will draw large audiences around individual movies, television shows, bands, celebrities, games and other types of entertainment. The Wii site, which is located at wii.yahoo.com, includes a buyer’s guide, video, content from message boards and Yahoo Answers, photos from Yahoo’s Flickr site and links to other Wii Web sites from the bookmarks service Del.icio.us.
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Published by CJS 1 year, 7 months ago
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IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
IBM already sells a business-focused search product, OmniFind, that lets organizations comb through internal documents. This free new edition of OmniFind will be limited in the number of documents it can query, but it will combine the results with Web searches powered by Yahoo.
IBM hopes the service, being announced Wednesday, bolsters its overall efforts to improve its dealings with small companies.
More broadly, though, Yahoo and IBM expect their partnership to shake up the field of “enterprise search,” in which leading providers such as Google, Autonomy Corp. and Norway-based FAST are seeing forays from business software giants such as Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and SAP AG.
Google has been dominant at the lower end of the market selling “search appliances” that begin at $2,000 (euro1,510) and range up to $30,000 (euro22,652). The top-of-the-line version can comb through 500,000 documents. Not coincidentally, that is the same limit that IBM and Yahoo have set for their free software _ although Google’s product includes hardware that operates the search service.
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