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Stable, Beta update: Yahoo! Mail and Security Fixes
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 mail.live.com. If you've been using the ...
Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company
Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company
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 ... (more) Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company
Carol Bartz Turns to Her Daughter for Yahoo Phone Research
Carol Bartz Turns to Her Daughter for Yahoo Phone Research
valleywag.gawker.com — 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 ... (more) Carol Bartz Turns to Her Daughter for Yahoo Phone Research
Integrated IM and mobile texting in Yahoo! Mail | Yahoo! Mail Blog
Integrated IM and mobile texting in Yahoo! Mail | Yahoo! Mail Blog
ymailblog.com — Hello All - This week I want to take a moment to introduce you to Brandon Savage.... Brandon is our Senior Product Manager for the Classic version of Yahoo! Mail . He’s got an exciting new feature to share with you. So take it away Brandon… —————————- I ... (more) Integrated IM and mobile texting in Yahoo! Mail | Yahoo! ...
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Google Chrome Spoofing User Agent at Hotmail
Google Blogoscoped — ... Matt in another comment wrote, “The equivalent code on the Hotmail side would be if (user-agent == Chrome) { render_mode = Safari; } . Hotmail has had months to do this simple change and hasn’t.” Google’s Mark Larson in the Chrome update note writes they’re deploying this new workaround “While the Hotmail team works on a proper fix”. ...

Chrome Ad from Google Japan
Google Operating System — Google Japan created a small ad for Chrome, the browser that moves fast, evolves rapidly and loads pages quickly. An example of quick patch is that the latest Chrome version spoofed Safari's user-agent to make Hotmail work properly. "Normally you think of web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter," commented ...

Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support
Webware.com — ... , Chrome tells Microsoft's site it's actually Apple's Safari browser, sidestepping a compatibility issue that had caused problems using the site. "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 mail.live.com," Chrome Product Manager Mark Larson said on a blog announcement. It also fixes a problem sending mail from Yahoo Mail, he said. ...

Chrome 1.0.154.46 adds bugfixes, performs masquerade trick
Obsessable News Feed — ... [news.cnet.com] Google Chrome Releases: Stable, Beta update: Yahoo! Mail and Security Fixes [googlechromereleases.blogspot.com] ...

Google Chrome gets updates, pretends to be Safari
Betanews — ... ) caused, the browser quietly broke the 1 percent mark of browser share this month. Google this week released updates addressing one moderate, and one severe security threat, and provides fixes for Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail. The Moderate security update addresses a cross-site scripting vulnerability linked to the Adobe Reader plugin, and the severe update is for a bug in the V8 JavaScript engine that could allow malicious users to "clickjack" sensitive information by bypassing same-origin checks. Previously, the ability to send an email would ...

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