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Yahoo! 360 moves closer to MySpace with new features - June 18, 2006

This past week, the Yahoo! 360 team let loose a slew of new features that the community has been wanting for some time now. Several of the features look to bring in some of the functionality of MySpace - we've seen many complaints comparisons of the 2 services on the Y-360 Groups for a while. Custom Themes - Now you can make your page look as nice, or as ugly as you want. Thankfully, the team realized that there are issues with this approach and give you an option to 'View without this...
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Yahoo! Music Engine - Security Updates released (v1.1.025) - June 17, 2006

With the glorious weather we have in my area today, thoughts turn to being outside and listening to tunes while napping doing yard work.So, ready to kick my Outside Mix playlist, I launched Yahoo! Music Engine and was greeted by an Update message.The message gave little details on the changes - mentions a security issue, but it is just a minor Build number change so I don't think there are any feature changes.Grab it by either letting your current YME! pull it for you, or from the Yahoo! Music..
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Yahoo! Shortcuts for quick access to World Cup info - June 17, 2006

Here we are, in the middle of the USA vs ITA game and I'm sorry to report that Yahoo! is doing better with the FIFA World Cup than their Home Team... In addition to the wonderful Officlal FIFA World Cup site, the Yahoo! Search team recently announced they've added a set of Y! Shortcuts to make it easy to get the latest juice. All you do is prefix the Search with the word FIFA followed by the information you want - you can search on Team, Group, Game I love these Shortcuts - Go...
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Yahoo! Mail Worm Contained - June 13, 2006

As mentioned here a few days ago, a worm carried in email sent to Yahoo! email addresses was able to send more nuisance mail to the contacts listed in the victims' Yahoo! Address Books which, when opened using the non-beta version of Y! Mail, would cause the process to continue again. Reports via the Associate Press service quotes a Yahoo! official: "We have taken steps to resolve the issue and protect our users from further attacks of this worm," Yahoo spokeswoman Kelley Podboy said. "The...
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Yahoo! Messenger Provides World Cup Game Action in Chat Window - June 12, 2006

Chatting smack with your soccer buddy while your favorite team is playing their's You're going to love the new Yahoo! Messenger 2006 FIFA World Cup IMVironmentTM so you can see all the action and stats while talking all that smack! As you can see from the "chat cap" above, you can pick a match being played and see the current time into the game, score, lineup, bench roster and current stats (like shots on goal, offsides, etc.) as it all happens. And don't forget about the all new..
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ALERT: Yahoo! Mail vulnerable to "New Graphic Site" email worm - June 12, 2006

Symantec is reporting (and I've already received some of these rogue emails in my Y! Mail today) that an email with the subject line, "New Graphic Site" contains a worm that is written in JavaScript. It exploits a vulnerability in the Yahoo email service to send a copy of itself to the user's Yahoo email contacts. The worm cannot run on the newest version of Yahoo Mail Beta. An InfoWorld article advises Although Yahoo's Web e-mail has not been fixed, users are advised to update..
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