Yahoo tests RP waters for mobile voice search (Manila Bulletin) Internet giant Yahoo has made a bold move to introduce a mobile voice search service in the Philippines, a country where text messaging — not voice calls — is used as the primary mode of mobile phone communication. us.rd.yahoo.com
SPOT Satellite Messenger Receives 2008 Field & Stream Best of the Best Award in Innovation and Technology (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance) MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 27, 2008 -- SPOT LLC, the pioneer behind the award-winning SPOT Satellite Messenger, today announced it has been awarded Field & Stream Magazine's Best of the Best Award in the hunting technology category for 2008. us.rd.yahoo.com
Can Yahoo! Fix the Buzz Problem? (Time Magazine) Yahoo!'s new social-news site promises to prevent the obvious cheating that happens on sites like Digg and Reddit us.rd.yahoo.com
Yahoo! reinvades! Iran! (The Register) Tech giants forge Axis of Email™ Yahoo! has reinstated its free webmail services in Iran, less than a year after the firm blocked new registrations from the country citing tighter US sanctions.… us.rd.yahoo.com
College president resigns over controversial keg photo (USA Today) A community college agreed to pay its president $400,000 to resign after the Des Moines Register published a photograph that shows him "holding the spigot of a small beer keg suspended over a young woman’s open mouth." Robert Paxton was... us.rd.yahoo.com
Internet sex sting catches local man (The Evening Sun) A Penn Township man faces 12 charges of unlawful contact with minors after allegedly exposing himself that many times to undercover agents online. us.rd.yahoo.com
Plantronics Teams with Dolby to Deliver Enhanced PC Game Play with Virtual 5.1 Surround Sound (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Plantronics today announced the new GameCom 777® Surround Sound Gaming Headset featuring Dolby® Headphone technology, which allows users to play PC games, listen to music and watch movies with dramatic virtual 5.1 surround sound effects. us.rd.yahoo.com
A Transparent Vista [Featured Desktop] (Lifehacker) The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. Reader y0himba shows off his Windows Vista desktop, which is sporting a transparent taskbar, Start menu, and instant messenger... us.rd.yahoo.com
Americans do everything on Internet (KYIV Post) Imagine a life, where you would not need to step out of your apartment for anything and get everything delivered to you: service, food, or clothes…A life where you could work, shop, and exist remotely. It is not so much of a fantasy anymore. It is a reality in America, a virtual reality. us.rd.yahoo.com
Internet stalker gets sentence of 10 years (NWAnews.com) HOT SPRINGS — A Hot Springs man arrested last year in a sting operation targeting online predators pleaded guilty to a felony charge of Internet stalking of a child Monday in Garland County Circuit Court. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition) us.rd.yahoo.com
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