TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
With Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company.
By Sharon Gaudin | 24 May, 2012 20:08
Yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone to digitally sign extensions in Yahoo's name.
By Lucian Constantin | 24 May, 2012 16:41
Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links.
By Cameron Scott | 24 May, 2012 00:01
Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).
By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 04:56
Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week.
By Jaikumar Vijayan | 21 May, 2012 20:11
Question-and-answer sites like Yahoo Answers may offer a quick way to ask questions and get answers, but they tend to be plagued by wisecracks, poor spelling, and generally low quality. On the other hand, a new site targeting this niche, Quora, is going to great lengths to keep quality high.
By Katherine Noyes | 21 January, 2011 12:00
Screw Android 2.2. Forget the new iPhone. Nokia and Yahoo have some news.
By JR Raphael | 25 May, 2010 08:27
Microsoft and Yahoo, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
By JR Raphael | 19 February, 2010 10:17
The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 February, 2010 08:01
The Great Recession cast a shadow on all sectors of the economy in 2009. IT fared better than most, however, and the slump did not curb the dynamic nature of the industry. Acquisitions among big vendors continued to reshape the market, operating-system wars extended to mobile battlefields, microblogging became a powerful source of real-time information, and the take-up of small, 'Net-connected devices was stronger than ever. Here, in no particular order, is the IDG News Service's pick of the top 10 technology stories of 2009.
By Marc Ferranti | 09 December, 2009 12:17
Some of the biggest high-tech deals never happened. Some of the most promising products and services never came to be. Why? Because the people and companies involved didn't realize what they were letting slip through their fingers, or they simply couldn't foresee what would happen afterward.
By Dan Tynan | 31 August, 2009 14:40
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