valleywag.gawker.com - 1/30/2009
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Apple has the iPhone; Google, the G1. Where's the Yahoophone? We hear new CEO Carol Bartz nixed the Yahoo One Phone, a project with Motorola and AT&T;, after her daughter got a look at it. The word from a plugged-in Sunnyvale source: Bartz, who has been on the job less than three weeks , was ...
kara.allthingsd.com - 2/3/2009
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kara.allthingsd.com —
Jill Nash, Yahoo’s chief communications officer, has told
its CEO Carol Bartz and other Yahoo staff this...
afternoon that she is leaving the company. Yahoo has not made it official, but is likely to do so quickly, as Bartz tries to staunch ...
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Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company
kara.allthingsd.com - 2/3/2009
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kara.allthingsd.com —
It looks like Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is
going to have to up the ante to keep...
BoomTown from getting its mitts on the company’s internal memos. Earlier today, this column broke the news that Yahoo’s head of communications, Jill Nash, ...
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Hey, Big Spender: The Goodbye Memo From Yahoo PR Head ...
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com - 1/29/2009
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googlechromereleases.blogspot.com —
Sending mail from Yahoo! Mail works again. Windows
Live Hotmail now works. While the Hotmail team works...
on a proper fix, we're deploying a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with ...
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Stable, Beta update: Yahoo! Mail and Security Fixes
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Yahoophone Canned On Advice Of New CEO's College Daughter [Yahoo Phone]
Gizmodo —
Valleywag just discovered that Yahoo (with Motorola and AT&T;) was working on a Yahoo Phone with Yahoo apps, but canned it partially because new CEO's college-aged daughter preferred another phone instead. [Valleywag]
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Yahoophone Gets Canceled! What Yahoo Phone??
Mobilewhack.com —
... and AT&T were on board too and they must be pretty pissed off right now. A top Yahoo mobile executive is said to have left the company while others have been fired. Is this a good move for Yahoo? Is this a good move for Bartz? Time will tell, but a Motorola Yahoophone wasn’t really necessary, was it? via valleywag Tags: ...
Yahoophone dumped as CEO’s daughter does not like it
Phones Review —
... actually looked to her daughter who preferred a different mobile phone and wasn’t impressed with the Yahoophone prototype the CEO gave her, and thus was cancelled.
The word is the Yahoophone was supposed to pack a load of Yahoo goodies, and AT&T along with Motorola where on board, but are right now probably a tad annoyed.
So new policy for mobile phone industry CEO’s for the acceptance of mobile design…get a relative to make the decision for you.
Source – valleywag
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Did Yahoo can a Yahoo phone?
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... with their discussion of a phone "preloaded with Yahoo services." So why is widgetizing a bad strategy when applied to a phone? Theoretically, Yahoo Widgets support could live on numerous OSes. Without funding a full OS, it seems like a smart way to sneak Yahoo onto as many devices as possible.
Then again, its Valleywag, whose sources are culled from moist, specifically drilled holes plumbed in the stall walls of Silicon Valley men's rooms. So grain of salt.
Carol Bartz turns to daughter for Yahoo Phone Research [Valleywag]
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Yahoo! Launches Official Twitter Feed
AppScout —
... New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz reportedly nixed plans for a Yahoophone after her teenage daughter gave it the thumbs down. Wonder if her kid is a Twitter user?
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