Monthly archive for July 2008
Yahoo and Today-Then-Tomorrow
Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 by admin
The last year has seen great strides in new directions with the advent of the mobile, podcast, music and video demand from the worldwide population. These sectors are making all the exciting and innovative demands from Yahoo that the early innovations did, a great example of progress is the new compatibility of Yahoo mail to the popular MSN mail systems enabling a truly worldwide communication system that cuts all community boundaries and reaches a far more complete audience.
Yahooite and the Googleite
Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 by admin
The advance of Google after the millennium had also been meteoric but Yahoo has always been fundamentally different, the Yahoo-ite is a member of a true community, a community that Yahoo has served and embraced for many years. Up until Google’s IPO its rise had been through search popularity and whilst this was extremely powerful the Google’ite was not part of a community in the same way as a Yahoo’ite, the relationship between Google and its users was cold and based purely on search.
Kelkoo and Overture
Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 by admin
Overture and Kelkoo were also acquired by Yahoo with both becoming great success stories, Overture was to become Yahoo Marketing whilst Kelkoo was to become the jewel in the crown of online shopping portals.
The marketing and development of Kelkoo became a shining benchmark for web engineering that for the first time successfully harnessed the functionality in web architecture that is needed for successful Internet search engine marketing.
Yahoo –WebCal –Broadcast
Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 by admin
The history of the Internet is littered with fantastic new innovations and new portals that are popularized by millions of users, every year some new innovation explodes onto the Internet and large search facilities then acquire them. Early Yahoo acquisitions include WebCal and Broadcast.com.
During 2001 and 2002 the acquisition strategy continued with Yahoo buying Launch Media and Hot Jobs, the roll out into world regions continues relentlessly and Yahoo grows more powerful by the month. A new benchmark was set in 2002 with the acquisition of Inktomi, this was a benchmark due to that fact that Inktomi was already an established internet facility but the purchase was about the search technology that Inktomi possessed.
Yahoo Grows
Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 by admin
Over the next few years the Yahoo search engine and directory grew and gradually moved into a worldwide resource with versions for many countries from different continents. First of all Yahoo Japan was launched with Yahoo UK following closely on its heels, advertising revenue was growing with each country based launch and already diversification was starting to show itself.
Over the following months Yahoo launched Yahoo Germany, Yahoo France and Yahoo Singapore and also Yahoo Australia, the pace of this expansion was extreme when compared to traditional business which also reflects on the almost immeasurable rapid expansion in Internet use and accessibility.
History Of Yahoo
Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 by admin
The Yahoo Years
Yahoo started life back in 1994, its humble beginnings were the confines of a university campus trailer, Yahoo started life as a collection of favorites put together by a couple of clever chaps called David Filo and Jerry Yang.
At this time point who would ever of guessed that this humble beginning would evolve into a global brand, lets face it the first recordable name given to this collection of Internet information was ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web’ the acronym for this – JDGWWW doesn’t really aspire to becoming a world leading brand.
Intel Pursues Mobile Internet Success
Posted Monday 28th July 2008 by Tom P
Processor manufacturer Intel has made claims that in the next four years the number of mobile internet devices will increase greatly. A survey carried out for the company estimates that by 2012 over a billion devices will be in circulation. The statement came at a press conference releasing Intel’s new series of chips specifically designed for mobile internet use. They claim that the demand is there for such a product which is why they are pursuing mobile applications wholeheartedly.
Sony Pursuing Long Term Goals
Posted Friday 25th July 2008 by Tom P
Another E3 gaming conference has gone by with the usual pomp and ceremony. Naturally all three major consoles were well represented with each making a keynote address to the gaming press. Arguably the most interesting of the three speeches was from Sony. While the PS3 has not had the instant success Sony executives would have liked, the company’s entertainment president was keen to express his confidence that the platform would be stable for the next decade.
Zone Alarm Problem Solved
Posted Thursday 10th July 2008 by admin
At last a solution has been found to the problem with Zone Alarms firewall and a Microsoft update. The problem began when an update for Windows was released to the public and many people had the antivirus software Zone Alarm. This apparently caused a mismatch on PC’s and stopped all users from gaining access to the internet and their email accounts. This left many people hard done by and wondering what to do. The Microsoft patch was released to be able to close a gap in security on PC’s. If the patch was not released then it left hackers and viruses to direct users to fake internet websites even if the person would enter in the correct web address. Private software and hardware firms have applied patches themselves to close the security breach.
The mighty new I phone takes on the Blackberry
Posted Thursday 10th July 2008 by admin
It is almost a year ago now that the original I Phone set a benchmark for mobile phones worldwide. Its features to combine a standard phone and message system with the iPods music and video players as well as a full internet browser that allowed users to access the internet properly from anywhere in the world. But present times a year on the world has been caught by storm with the reveal of apples brand new 3G I Phone. It is hoping to release the new phone with the same expectations of the previous generation’s sales.
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