Yahoo Bill Pay To Shut Comments

TechCrunch by Duncan Riley - Jul 6, '07 9:45pm
Yahoo has announced that Yahoo Bill Pay will close between September and October this year. Yahoo Bill Pay launched in September 1999 and was promoted as giving Yahoo users the ability “to securely pay bills from any computer connected to the Internet”. The service is to be shut in two stages. [...]
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Sweden To Try And Block The Pirate Bay, Again Comments

Techdirt by Carlo Longino - Jul 6, '07 9:27pm
Previous entertainment industry-led attempts to shut down The Pirate Bay torrent search engine haven't been successful, but the Swedish police are still trying to help out. Consequently, next week, the site will be blocked to anyone from inside the country who tries to visit it -- because it's being added to a list of child-pornography sites that Swedish ISPs block. A Pirate Bay admin writes on his blog that the police say that "if the content is still there next week", they'll add the site to the list -- but they won't specify what the offending content is (never mind the the site doesn't actually host and content on its own). It's highly unlikely it's actual child porn, though of course the entertainment industry has no problem equating file-sharing to child porn. But since the Pirate Bay is nothing more than a search engine, can Google expect to be blocked in Sweden soon? Yahoo? MSN? After all, chances are those sites link to at least one piece of copyrighted content.
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JotSpot joining Google Apps revolution Comments

ZDNet Blogs by Dan Farber - Jul 6, '07 7:39pm
Google is adding JotSpot, which the company acquired in October 2006, to the Google Apps, according to Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise. Google Apps currently includes mail, calendar, instant messaging, Web page creation, documents and spreadsheets. JotSpot will bring wikis and easy to build team Web sites to the suite. The company has been in the process of moving JotSpot to the Google infrastructure to gain reliability and scale efficiencies, Girouard said, but he didn't disclose when JotSpot would become available. Girouard was speaking on a panel at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Alumni 2007 Global Conference. He said that Google is getting 1,000 to 2,000 new businesses per day signed up Google Apps....
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Yahoo responds to reports of site outages Comments

CNET News.com - Jul 6, '07 7:10pm
Blog: The site's downage was not actually downage, representatives say, but rather a network carrier issue that slowed it down.
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Inside the Mind of a Hacker Comments

eWEEK Technology News - Jul 6, '07 10:44pm
Thinking like those who dissect code is an effective method to ward off attacks from malware writers.

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Yahoo sites hit by availability problems Comments

InfoWorld: Top News by Juan_Carlos_Perez_and_Robert_McMillan@idg.com (Juan Carlos Perez and Robert McMillan) - Jul 6, '07 6:01pm

(InfoWorld) - Yahoo suffered availability problems on Friday that affected its home page as well as some of its other Web sites and services for a sustained period of time.

Yahoo, which has some of the most popular sites and online services worldwide, first experienced problems on its home page at around 5:50 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time, said Dan Berkowitz, senior communications director at Keynote Systems, a global provider of mobile and Internet test and measurement services.

Yahoo.com's operations began getting back to normal at around 7:15 a.m., said Berkowitz. At its worst point, Yahoo.com's availability dropped to around 60 percent, meaning that 4 out of 10 visitors couldn't access the page, he said, citing data collected from Keynote's global network of monitoring computers, which check the availability of the world's most popular sites.

Yahoo didn't reply to requests for comments about the problems.

NetCraft also detected the problems, saying in a short note that the intensity of the performance issues varied among geographical areas and also among Yahoo services.

"The Yahoo.com home page was inaccessible for several hours from our London monitoring station and responded more slowly than usual from several locations in the U.S. Yahoo Search appears to have experienced lengthier availability problems than the home page and other Yahoo services," NetCraft reported.

A variety of bloggers also reported trouble Friday morning accessing other Yahoo services like Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail as well as other Yahoo sites like the Flickr photo sharing site and the news aggregation site Yahoo News.

Ideally, Yahoo and other major Internet players would never face Web site outages, but they all do, said industry analyst Greg Sterling from Sterling Market Intelligence. The key is to make sure that significant availability problems happen infrequently. Otherwise, users and advertisers get worried and upset, he said.

Yahoo's problems on Friday probably affected fewer users than usual because many people are taking time off in the U.S. and are away from their computers due to the July 4th Independence Day holiday, Berkowitz said.

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Dynamic Kernel Thread Scheduling for Real-Time Linux Comments

Dr.Dobb's - All Articles - Jul 6, '07 4:57pm
A new scheduling algorithm for kernel threads using weighted average PIP mechanism.
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Anatomy of an open-source decision: The Adobe Flex example Comments

CNET News.com - Jul 6, '07 1:53pm
Blog: Adobe announced its intention to open-source Flex several weeks ago, but didn't reveal why. In this interview, Adobe's Phil Costa takes us through the reasons the company had for open-sourcing Flex.
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FTC OKs aQuantive buyout by Microsoft (AP) Comments

Yahoo! News: Technology News - Jul 6, '07 4:48pm

Christine Canasa plays 'Kameo' using the new Xbox 360 at Micro Center computer store in Santa Clara, Calif., in this Feb. 28, 2006 file photo. In another setback for Microsoft Corp.'s unprofitable entertainment and devices division, the company says it is planning to spend at least $1 billion to repair serious problems with its Xbox 360 video game console. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion acquisition of online advertising group aQuantive Inc. has cleared an antitrust regulatory hurdle, the companies said Friday.


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Lucene 2.2: Payloads, Function queries, and more speed Comments

InfoQ Personalized Feed for Unregistered User - Registered to upgrade! - Jul 6, '07 11:35am
Lucene Java 2.2 is now available. Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. There are several new features in this version, and InfoQ spoke with Grant Ingersoll, a committer and Project Management Committee (PMC) member for the Lucene project, to learn more about this release.
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