Archive for the ‘Web Applications’ Category
May 30
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.
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May 20
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.
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May 2
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.
April 27
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.
April 16
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.
