holdenkarau writes “Yahoo!’s acquisition of open source mail client Zimbra has apparently brought some baggage to the mail team. The new Yahoo! desktop program transmits the authentication information in plain text. The flaw was discovered during a Yahoo ‘hacku’ Day at the University of Waterloo (the only Canadian school part of the trip). Compared to the recent news about Gmail exposing the …

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If Google can manage to put up website explaining their search ad deal with Yahoo, Yahoo for its part can only manage to make a post at the company?s blog, explaining what?s in it for Yahoo and how it is going to affect the search ad market. But the post nonetheless was made by Yahoo?s [...]

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Google’s vision of tomorrow’s wireless network is in stark contrast to how wireless operators do business today, setting the two sides on a possible collision course.

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When companies as savvy and as important as General Electric and Google join forces, it’s worth a closer look. The companies say they will work together to drive two industries with big growth potential: geothermal energy and the upgrading of the nation’s overburdened electricity grid.

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T-Mobile raised some eyebrows Tuesday when it disclosed that buyers of its highly touted new Internet phone, the HTC G1 that uses Google?s Android software, would face restrictions if they exceeded 1 gigabyte of cellular data a month.

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Google has released a free Web-based service called Moderator that organizations can use to improve question-and-answer sessions during heavily attended meetings.

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The goal is to allow publishers and advertisers to manage their display advertising on newspaper Web sites, along with Yahoo sites and large sites like eBay and WebMD.

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Visa Inc plans to offer alerts, special offers, and ATM and merchant location services in a software application for phones powered by Google Inc’s Android system by year-end.

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For advertisers, Yahoo?s new platform APT would simplify the buying of display ads.

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Yahoo Inc. launched a much-anticipated upgrade to its online advertising system Wednesday as it tries to bring to graphical display ads some of the innovations that powered Google Inc.’s rapid rise in search marketing.

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