Category: yahoo

Yahoo launches its own unlimited data plan for $40 a month

Post author By Randall
Post date March 11, 2020
Categories In business, data, gear, iphone 11, Mobile, phone, pixel 4, plan, Tech, unlimited, Verizon, yahoo

[ad_1] The service will use Verizon‘s network (Verizon is the parent company of both Yahoo and Engadget, but that has no bearing on this report), and comes with the usual “unlimited” caveats. Times of high congestion will result in a slower connection, and tethering is limited to 5Mbits, with one tethered device permitted at time. […]

Flickr owner: We need more paying subscribers to keep this going

Post author By Randall
Post date December 20, 2019
Categories In flickr, gear, Internet, Tech, Verizon, yahoo

[ad_1] Flickr first showed signs of trouble when it started limiting free users to 1,000 photos and videos earlier this year, likely in an effort to convert them into paying subscribers. Now, MacAskill is taking a more direct approach and asking free users to sign up for a paid subscription. He’s also asking current Pro […]

Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content

Post author By Randall
Post date October 16, 2019
Categories In gear, Internet, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech, Verizon, yahoo, yahoo groups

[ad_1] If you’re at all interested in preserving your history on the site, you’ll want to download your data either directly from posts or through Yahoo’s Privacy Dashboard. Yahoo hasn’t formally explained the shutdown, but you could see this coming. Yahoo launched Groups in 2001 as a sort of forum and mailing list hybrid, and […]

Yahoo’s redesigned Mail app aims to bring order to your inbox

Post author By Randall
Post date September 23, 2019
Categories In gear, Internet, Mobile, Tech, Verizon, yahoo, yahoo mail, yahoomail

[ad_1] The primary way in which it does this is by grouping emails into “Views” with categories like Deals, Travel, Subscriptions and Attachments, which are all treated very differently. This is conceptually similar to Gmail’s tabs. In Yahoo Mail’s Travel view, for example, you’ll see all of your upcoming flight and hotel itineraries, as well […]

TrickBot malware may have hacked 250 million email accounts

Post author By Randall
Post date July 12, 2019
Categories In accounts, contacts, Cybersecurity, deep instinct, Email, emails, gear, Gmail, governments, Hack, hotmail, Internet, malicious, malware, Security, Tech, trickbooster, trickbot, yahoo

[ad_1] In a recent investigation, Deep Instinct found a database containing 250 million compromised email accounts. The firm says millions of those belong to governments in the US and UK, as well as agencies in Canada. The database contained more than 25 million Gmail addresses, 19 million Yahoo.com addresses and 11 million Hotmail.com addresses. AOL, […]

Verizon is trying to sell off Tumblr

Post author By Randall
Post date May 2, 2019
Categories In blogging, business, gear, Internet, services, Tech, tumblr, Verizon, yahoo

[ad_1] Tumblr still has a sizable and active user base with more than 450 million blogs and 172 billion posts, but it has been steadily declining as its corporate owners have struggled to figure out exactly what to do with the platform. Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013 as part of then-CEO Marissa […]