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How to protect your online passwords, a lesson from Sarah Palin

Published by WebGuru on September 19, 2008 in IT Security. 0 Comments

image In recent news the Internet is talking about how a college guy hacked Sarah Palin, 2008 USA vice president candidate, personal Yahoo email account. Actually there was no technical scripting or coding involved in this hack issue. What the “hacker” did was to use Yahoo’s password recovery function by answering 3 security questions. For example, Sarah Palin set up the following three security questions to help her retrieve forgotten password (actually pre-set by Yahoo!). 1), what is her birth date; 2), what is her house zip code; 3), where did she meet with her husband; In the event of her forgetting her email password, what she needs to do is to answer these three questions and reset the password.

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Yahoo Opens Search Technology To Third-Party Search Engines

Published by WebGuru on July 10, 2008 in IT News. 1 Comment

By Scott Morrison
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) is hoping to boost revenue and steal market share from rival Google Inc. (GOOG) with a new plan that opens its search technology to third-party developers who want to build their own search engines.

The initiative lets partners tap into Yahoo’s back-end search technology - the algorithms and infrastructure that power its search engine - as a Web service, but allows them to control the presentation and ranking of the search results. Those partners, in return, would be required to run Yahoo search ads on their pages, with the two sides sharing revenue.

The Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced the program, dubbed Build Your Own Search Service, or BOSS, early Thursday.

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The latest updates on Micro-hoo acquisition war

Published by WebGuru on February 11, 2008 in Google Microsoft and IT News. 0 Comments

Micro-hooWell, from Yahoo’s own finanical portal site http://finance.yahoo.com the headline for today morning is “Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft Offer”. And it says:

Monday February 11, 9:58 am ET
Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft’s $44.6 Billion Takeover Bid As Inadequate

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. spurned Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate Monday without explaining how its management will match the payoff that the slumping Internet icon’s shareholders would have received had the unsolicited offer been accepted.


That is not surprised to me, since I already reported last week the “enemy” of Microsoft, Google will help Yahoo on anyway it can to defeat Microsoft’s hostile take over. Of course, the 10-member board of Yahoo strongly “believes” that it can get more money from the world’s largest software maker since the Redmond needs it badly, or the board thinks Jerry Yang and its management team will finally be able to deliver on its repeated promises of a turnaround that has been in the works for the past 18 months.

According to the news, Microsoft will eventually raise its bid to $35 to $40 per share, sweetening the pot by $5 billion to $12 billion in an effort to negotiate an amicable sale. Or at last, Microsoft could take its original bid directly to Yahoo’s shareholders.

What is the market’s response?
Yahoo shares rose 62 cents, or 2 percent, to $29.82 in early trading Monday while Microsoft shares lost 24 cents to $28.32.

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What is Google’s plan to Microsoft’s acquisition on Yahoo!

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on February 4, 2008 in Google Microsoft and IT News. 1 Comment

Microsoft and Yahoo!Thing will turn into more interesting in IT area if it has anything do with money.

Good: We still see innovations and competitions going on the Internet.
Bad: No matter from which side you see, we will still see one or two big guys in this search engine game.
Ugly: More finger pointing will come up and Monopoly accuses another Monopoly for the Monopoly.

Now it is Monday, and it is enough with a weekend of news about Microsoft will buy out Yahoo! for 44.6 billion dollars. Let us see what is the plan from Google. Because the whole world knows that the acquisitions is nothing but all about Microsoft trying to beat Google.

According to the blogs from ZDNet, now Google launches its “let’s annoy Microsoft” plan with two strategies: the first to help Yahoo to make Microsoft’s buyout more miserable. and the second one is to work on the regulators.

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Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share

Published by 超凡不脱俗 on February 1, 2008 in Google Microsoft and IT News. 1 Comment

Microsoft and Yahoo!In a recent statement issued today from Microsoft, Microsoft proposes to buy Yahoo! for nearly 44.6 billion dollars. It is like $31 a share, which is at a 62 percent premium to Yahoo’s closing price of $19.18 yesterday (1/31/2008). And the investors of Yahoo! can elect to accept cash or exchange with Microsoft’s share in the a total half of half ratio. Why should Microsoft do that? Well, it is obvious that this move is to give the software giant more market share and become a significant threat to Google.

The following is what Microsoft says about this acquisition:

Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners

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