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The New Yahoo! Mail Classic
New Features
Auto-save to Draft
Now saves the message you’re working on (in Drafts) so you don’t lose it in the event of a power outage, connection interruption or computer problem. Moreover, you can save the most recent version by clicking Save Draft. Once you click Send to send the message, the draft is deleted from Drafts. To review it after that, just look in Sent.
Downloading
Now requires only one click—on the attachment name in the message header.
Message Header
Now the From, To and Date information is located at the top of each email for easier to read and added the option to flag the message in the upper-left corner (click the flag). To view a message’s full header, just click Full Header in the lower-right corner.
One-click “Flag this message”
Now you can organize your most important messages. Just click the dot in the new Flag column, it’s one over from the check-box column. If you’re in the middle of reading a message you’d like to flag, click the gray flag in the upper-left corner of the window. Finally, if you want to see all your flagged messages grouped at the top of your Inbox (or any other folder), just click the flag at the top of the column.
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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.
What’s New in Firefox 3
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 33 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.
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eBay publicized the complaint it recently filed against Craigslist in Delaware’s Couty of Chancery. It’s all about the lucrative listings market.
A public copy of the eBay complaint, edited to redact certain portions at the request of Craigslist, became available Wednesday. “eBay…takes no position at this time on the propriety of any of Defendants’ redactions,” eBay said of those edits.
eBay claimed the two directors for Craigslist, Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark, made certain transactions that benefited them to eBay’s detriment. The actual numbers regarding the number of shares and percentages have been redacted out of the complaint.
As part of the agreement that delivered part of Craigslist to eBay, any competitive activity by either side would cause that side to lose certain rights. With eBay bringing its Kijiji listings site to the United States, it seems Craigslist considered this competitive activity.
Google’s Registered Domain Names
Google owns thousands of domains, partially to protect those domains from being misused by typosquatters and to protect their brand identity. There is no doubt that some of them were registered for future business ventures as well.
Google lawyers have been keeping busy registering and reclaiming lots of Google-related domain names over the years.
Yahoo! Responds to Latest Microsoft Letter
The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
Microsoft Corp. sent a follow-up letter to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to sit down and negotiate a deal. Earlier this year, Microsoft sent a Proposal on its takeover bid.
