Tag: Yahoo
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Flickr App Updated on Apple iOS for iPhone and iPad, Introduces Hashtags
Yahoo! owned photo app Flickr has been updated on Apple iOS and with routine tweaks to functionality comes the addition of hashtagging.
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Internet Explorers: TheMovieBox.net – Our favorite movie trailer site!
Hello, hello, it’s time for another look into the information super highway (oh how very 90’s), where we at the Gadget Helpline look to share some of our favourite slices of the web in the form of a website, Tumblr page, Facebook Group, Twitter account or any other web-based service. If we like it then…
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Yahoo Launches Axis Web Browser for iPhone, iPad and Desktop
Yahoo brings search and browsing together in one neat package…
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Yahoo Sues Facebook Over 10 Alleged Patent Infringements
Yahoo will be seeing Facebook in court after the search engine giant slammed the social network over infringing on copyright patents. We don’t remember the last time we thought of Yahoo as a buzzing hive of online social activity and the last time we logged into a “group” is probably in the last millennium! But…
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Google Engineers Moonlighting on New Indy Horror Film “Dead Inside”
Managing to carve in a little bit of extra-curricular activity in addition to their frightfully busy schedules, maintaining the world’s most used internet search engine, a handful of Google engineers have scripted and produced a new independently funded and acclaimed horror movie called Dead Inside. Dead Inside is set around a teen house party with…
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Google And Microsoft Both Considering Bids For Yahoo
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, the world’s number one search company Google is considering buying out the number two search engine Yahoo, with Microsoft reportedly considering another bid as well. Apparently, a “person familiar with matter” has told the WSJ that Google has approached at least two private equity firms about helping…
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Flickr app launched for snap-happy Android owners
Android mobile owners who like sharing their snaps can now benefit from online photo album Flickr in a new app version through the Android Market.
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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz fired over the phone
Oh dear, Tuesday wasn’t a really good day for Carol Bartz, who until yesterday, was the CEO of Yahoo Inc. Not now though, as her tenure has been abruptly ended by Chairman Roy Bostock, who fired her over the phone. It would seem her two-and-a-half year employment with Yahoo Inc perhaps didn’t go as well…
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Orange & T-Mobile top Ofcom broadband & mobile customer service poll
Ofcom has completed a UK poll which started in February and aimed to find out which of our communications providers brings most customer satisfaction when it comes to customer service from both broadband and mobile carriers. Those results have just been released and Yahoo! Finance reveals the following: Topping the broadband table is Orange, with…
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Orange & T-Mobile top Ofcom broadband & mobile customer service poll
Ofcom has completed a UK poll which started in February and aimed to find out which of our communications providers brings most customer satisfaction when it comes to customer service from both broadband and mobile carriers. Those results have just been released and Yahoo! Finance reveals the following: Topping the broadband table is Orange, with…
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Google UK claims 92 per cent of internet searches in June
Huge market share caps successful month for the big G
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Google in early stage talks to buy Hulu
For those that don’t know, Hulu is a very popular movie streaming service in the US which also allows users to access ad-supported on demand TV shows, “webisodes” and various other media content. And now, reports are suggesting that Google are currently in talks to buy the streaming service, which the company may use to…