Today, HMV launched HMV On-Demand, its own inevitable foray into the world of video on demand. But it seems to have missed the mark and may stumble straight out of the gates. In its honour, we’ve pulled out a list of the other last-ditch tech comebacks and launched that faltered, flapped and were dead on arrival. Read more
Remember those rumors last year suggesting Yahoo! was hard at at work on an Android smartphone? Well, they’ve materialized in the form of the Sharp Aquos 009SH, better known as the Yahoo Aquos 009SH or Yahoo! Phone. As the first official smartphone released by the search giant, the device will debut on SoftBank in Japan.
It’s only fitting that SoftBank, the owner and operator of Yahoo! in Japan, launches the world’s first Yahoo! Phone in partnership with Sharp. So how exactly does the Yahoo Aquos 009SH differentiate itself from the hundreds of other Android smartphones on the market? It starts with 13 pre-installed applications from Yahoo! Japan covering everything from Yahoo! Calendar to Yahoo! Dictionary.
On Tuesday Microsoft confirmed that a Yahoo email (IMAP) inefficiency was the root of a data bug affecting Windows Phone 7 users. Today, that same bug is believed to extend to iPhone users with Yahoo email accounts, here’s the scoop.
Kicking off your holiday week, it’s the best in tech from this side of the globe. In today’s US Update we bring you news on the new SanDisk Xbox 360 USB flash drive, the launch of Tap Tap Revenge 4 for iOS, the latest on Yahoo’s Delicious shutdown, a new video for the Motorola Honeycomb tablet and more.
The leaked screenshot that spurred debate over whether Yahoo would close several of their web properties this year has suddenly taken a turn. Yahoo has come forward to clarify the purported decision to close social bookmarking site, Delicious.
Like Google News? Hah! Pitiful. Now a news service with 175m reporters – that’d be something. And Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wants to make one. He’s talking up the idea of a Twitter news service. Is that an intriguing idea or the recipe for a soup of supposition and downright lies?
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AOL, along with a handful of private equity firms, is planning to buy Yahoo!, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article states that: “Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group LP are among the firms that have expressed interest in teaming up with AOL to buy Yahoo! or trying to take it private on their own. They added that at least two or three other firms could be interested in participating if a formal buyout proposal is drawn up.”
AOL isn’t quite on top of its game, and Yahoo! has had some rough times, but if the two were joined in a sell out by AOL, could the fortunes of the companies be turned around? What do you think?
Facebook comment system for the web incoming
Facebook is readying a full on comment system for the web. Reports suggest it’s hoping to get the system rolled out as the comments engine for a number of high profile websites. It recently gobbled up execs from Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Read on for more details on Facebook‘s plan to master comments…
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