Microsoft has revealed that a Yahoo Mail IMAP server glitch is causing the now-famous Windows Phone 7 (WP7) ‘phantom data’ problem, various reports confirm.
In January, the Redmond, Washington-based company revealed that the glitch which caused WP7 devices to eat up data allotments was caused by an unnamed third-party.

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According to consumer complaints, WP7 users were shocked that their devices seemed to consume significantly higher than usual data over …

Flickr, Yahoo’s photo sharing website, is dying a slow death, with unique visits declining 16% year-on-year, and a former Flickr engineer is blaming Yahoo for its impending demise.

While a New York Times article attributes Flickr drop off to Facebook’s emerging dominance in the photo sharing market for non-photographers, the former Flickr engineer Karen Elliot-McCrea explains there are other causes. McCrea, responding to a question on Quora about “Why Did Flickr Miss Out On The …

Microsoft has been reluctant to explain the cause of “Phantom Data” leaks on Windows on Windows Phone 7 hand sets in which iPhones send and receive data without the owner being aware  of it. However, the software giant has now revealed that Yahoo was the cause of the glitch, and it is now working on a solution.

Windows Phone 7 owners began reporting at the beginning of the year that phones were eating up huge amounts of data everyday for some unknown reason. The data was causing the …

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For 2010, Google’s lobbying expenses topped the summed amount spent by fellow technology giants Apple, Yahoo and Facebook, US government filings show.
According to the US Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, Google spent a total of $5.16 million in 2010 on lobbyists in 2010, a 28 percent increase from its $4.03 million expense on lobbyist for the previous year.
The same database shows that in 2010, Apple spent $1.61 million on lobbyists, Yahoo spent …

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, the web site which lets internet surfers share content, said this week on his Diggnation show that Yahoo has talked with him about taking over its Delicious bookmarking website. The discussion took place in late November/December, before Yahoo announced layoffs.

Yahoo and Digg, Rose explained, talked about how much it would cost to maintain the Delicious website, Yahoo did not try to sell it to Digg.  After news broke that Yahoo was going to sell Delicious and …

Users of Flickr, Yahoo’s popular photo sharing website, can now log on with their Facebook accounts, a change which is part of Yahoo’s and Flickr’s efforts to make more OpenID login options available.

Yahoo is the original internet directory service, so some viewed its announcement last week that it has become an OpenID “relying party” (RP) for ID’s from Google and Facebook as a step backwards.   One industry blogger wrote “Yahoo Concedes Internet Race by Allowing Login with …

Monthly data from industry researcher comScore Inc. showed that Google continued to widen its lead over number 2 ranked Yahoo in the market share of U.S. internet searches. Yahoo, which gained some ground earlier this year, saw its share of the search market fall .4 of a point to 16% while Google’s share increased .4 of a percentage point to 66.6% of all U.S. search queries.

ComScore said that if other websites “powered by” Google are included, the search engine giant’s share of the …

Yahoo has partnered with CBS Corp. and HSN Inc, to provide interactive features to live programs on sets using Yahoo’s Connected TV software. Set-top boxes provide internet connections and the market for interactive advertizing is expected to increase greatly.  CBS Corp. owns the most viewed U.S. broadcast network, and HSN Inc. is a home shopping retailer.

Director of product marketing for the Connected TV Group said the key features of Broadcast Interactivity “is to sense what you’re …

Carol Bartz, President and CEO of Yahoo, had every intention of streamlining and focusing on increasing Yahoo’s operating margins, and she’s been very successful at the streamlining venture.  Bartz has effectively lopped off approximately $4.8 billion worth of mergers and acquisition work from Yahoo’s lifetime.
Even though most of that comes from the amount paid for Geocities, approximately $3.6 billion, she’s also totally massacred $1.2 billion worth of other M&A.  Some of the …

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He is not giving up.
In spite it being shot down by a court recently for lack of merit, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has decided to file again his patent case against big names in the industry.
His patent case names AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, NetFlix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube as defendants.
The case which was dismissed by a judge because it was “vague” claimed that the 11 companies named in the suit violated the following …