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  • Yahoo to scrap online-payment service

    Yahoo is shutting down PayDirect, an online payment service similar to eBay's PayPal.

  • Yahoo hints at social networking service

    Yahoo on Wednesday dropped hints of growing interest in social networking services for search, coming after announcements of efforts from rivals Google and Microsoft.

  • Yahoo shifts focus in photo service

    Changes to Yahoo's photo and storage sites have elicited cries of bait-and-switch from users, even as the portal giant opens its photo site to unlimited storage capacity.

  • DoubleClick quiet over DoS attack

    Digital marketing and advertising company DoubleClick is staying tight-lipped about a denial of service (DoS) attack that hobbled its online ad-serving operation for four hours overnight.

  • Microsoft walks away from $50bn Yahoo offer

    Microsoft officially withdrew its offer to acquire Yahoo on Saturday but only after it threw an additional US$5 billion on the table.

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    Keep watching the skies -- for RIM and Google?

    Previously, much of the business model for the in-flight connectivity market has remained up in the air -- but that could all be about to change thanks to RIM and pals.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Yahoo7 cancels Webcast of Irwin memorial

    Yahoo7 cancelled plans for a live stream of today's memorial service for Steve Irwin at the eleventh hour following an inability to secure "the necessary clearance and approvals required for an online broadcast".

  • Boundless Web mail bad news for IT managers

    Yahoo's decision to offer unlimited storage capacity for Web mail users might be great news for home users keen to swap stupidly high-resolution photos, but for enterprise IT managers it's just another pain in the backside.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Channel 10 & the Web

    Channel 10's threadbare online presence stands out among the other TV networks' swish Web sites. But why?

  • How Seven blew the internet Olympics

    If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.

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  • Yahoo7 on the World Cup leaderboard

    As the official online home of the Socceroos, Yahoo7's World Cup site will act as a 24-hour news source, discussion forum and multimedia archive for football-mad Australians hungry for a fix.

  • Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

    A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory

  • How will Microsoft and Yahoo look next year?

    By now, the regulatory, cultural, practical and financial problems in Microsoft's Yahoo acquisition have been well aired. Let's skip forward to 2009, when they've all been solved and Yahoo is now a Microsoft brand.

  • India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

    In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

  • Search engines reveal privacy policies

    Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.

Videos (1)

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    Trillian is a full-featured, standalone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC.

Reviews (109)

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    Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.

  • Microsoft hopes 7 is lucky number for IE

    The software maker launches its first major update to the browser in years, offering tabbed browsing and security additions.

  • Images: The changing face of Web mail

    With Windows Live Mail currently being tested, here is a look back at how Web-based e-mail has changed since 1997.

  • First Take: Yahoo Messenger with Voice

    Free voice calls and voicemail, built-in Web searches, and drag-and-drop photo sharing make Yahoo's new instant messenger a fun, powerful IM tool.

  • Trillian reconnects to Yahoo

    Cerulean Studios has released a software patch that will let a version of its Trillian instant-messaging service communicate with Yahoo Messenger, according to its co-founder.

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