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Yahoo! making you queasy? Here's how to backup Flickr photos to your Mac

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2010)

Yesterday, Yahoo!'s secret plans to shut down their Delicious bookmark sharing service were made public. While there are no published plans to shut down the popular Yahoo!-owned Flickr photography service, the general shakiness of all things Yahoo! seems to be making many people nervous. Since many ...

Apple employees love Steve Jobs

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 2nd, 2010)

Silicon Alley Insider has put together a chart that shows the approval ratings employees have for various CEOs at major tech companies. The chart is based on data from Glassdoor.com and reveals that Steve Jobs is the most-favored CEO, ranked by his own employees, followed closely by Mark ...

Yahoo! releases Sketch-a-Search for iPad, update for iPhone

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 19th, 2010)

Yahoo has released an iPad version of its popular iPhone Sketch-a-Search app. For those not familiar with the app, Sketch-a-Search lets users simply sketch a line around an area of the built-in Google map to find restaurants within the sketched area. The app on the iPhone is great, and it's ...

Yahoo! Mesenger app updated, offers free voice and video calling

by Mike Schramm (Oct 11th, 2010)

The Yahoo! Messenger app has received a pretty significant upgrade today -- the app now lets you make video and voice calls to Yahoo! Messenger friends. That has a few interesting outcomes, the first of which is that you can now make video calls from any iPhone running iOS 4.1 to anywhere with a ...

Apple taking mobile ad share from Google, Yahoo, should have 21% by year end

by Mike Schramm (Sep 27th, 2010)

Apple's iAd service is a relative newcomer to the mobile ads industry, which is probably why it's completely falling apart. No, sorry Carol, we're kidding -- Apple's service is doing extremely well, and it's already threatening established mobile advertising services like Google and Yahoo!. IDC ...

Yahoo! CEO: iAds 'going to fall apart' for Apple

by Steven Sande (Sep 16th, 2010)

Known for her salty language and accordian playing, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz isn't your typical Internet executive. Along with other comments in a recent Reuters interview, Bartz stated that she felt Apple's iAd service was "going to fall apart for them," since "Apple wants total control over those ...

Yahoo! Mail for iPad and iPhone contains tasty HTML5 goodness

by Steven Sande (Aug 18th, 2010)

While Yahoo! Mail isn't as wildly popular as, say, Gmail, there are still a lot of people who have Yahoo! Mail accounts. After all, you need a Yahoo! account to use Flickr, so many people sign up for the free accounts without a second thought. For the most part, the Web-based mail client has been ...

Happening leverages Yahoo events search for your iPhone

by Michael Rose (Jun 16th, 2010)

It's a little bit odd that there's no official iPhone app for Yahoo's Upcoming service. With community-contributed event listings sorted and searchable by location, there's a natural fit between Upcoming and the iPhone -- yet there's nothing from the big Y! in the App Store for this service. (Not to ...

WWDC 2010: Bing coming to MobileSafari search

by Aron Trimble (Jun 7th, 2010)

The rumor was partly true, Bing is indeed coming to the iOS search party; however, it will not be the default option as was speculated in January. During today's WWDC 2010 keynote address, Steve Jobs announced that Bing would be alongside Google and Yahoo as available search engine choices for ...

Yahoo!: iPad users skew male and middle-aged

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2010)

Yahoo!'s mobile blog has shared some interesting demographic data about the iPad users they've seen so far. Some of the results are unsurprising. Given that the iPad is still in its youthful days, the users tend to match the typical early adopter profile: male, older, and wealthy enough to afford ...

iPhone OS 4 to integrate with Facebook

by Mike Schramm (Apr 19th, 2010)

Developers have done a little more poking around with iPhone OS 4.0, and it looks like Apple is set to get much more social with the next version of the iPhone. Not only will the new OS include the new gaming network Game Center, but apparently the OS will also integrate Facebook contacts directly ...

iPhone OS 4: Google branding removed in Safari search

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 10th, 2010)

iLounge has pointed out that the "Google" branded search button in mobile Safari has been renamed "Search" in iPhone OS 4. Is this a sign that Apple is about to dump Google from mobile search? Despite their increasing competition, it's highly unlikely that Apple will entirely eliminate Google ...

Yahoo! introduces Sketch-a-Search iPhone app

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 24th, 2010)

Yahoo! yesterday introduced a new app called Sketch-a-Search to the iPhone. It's one of the first search apps I've seen that actually takes a new, novel approach to search taking advantage of the iPhone's multi-touch features. It's simple and easy to use. You launch the app and a split-screen ...

WaPo: DOJ preparing antitrust probe for Apple, among others

by Robert Palmer (Jun 3rd, 2009)

Apple, Google, Yahoo! and Genentech are subjects of a fresh antitrust investigation surrounding hiring and recruiting practices among companies in the tech industry, according to Washington Post staff writer Cecilia Kang. "By agreeing not to hire away top talent, the companies could be stifling ...

iPod touch ad puts a new slant on things

by Robert Palmer (Dec 12th, 2008)

TBWA/Media Arts Lab created a spiffy new online ad for the iPod touch: it plays around with objects on the Yahoo! Games page as the ad plays. It's not unlike the Nintendo "Wario Land" YouTube video that has the same effect. AdAge notes that Apple has been clever about creating media-rich online ...