Yahoo! Inc. announced that it's searching for a new Chief Executive Officer. Jerry Yang, co-Founder of Yahoo!, has decided to return to his former role as Chief Yahoo! upon the appointment of his successor as CEO, and he will also continue to serve on the Board.
While growth of web usage is up across all mobile device classes, one of the biggest areas of growth has been smartphones. From the strong growth in ad-calls for ad networks such as Admob to the astounding increases in page views for Opera Mini, it’s very clear that consumers have embraced the use of the web on mobile devices.
Large companies are starting to install upgraded Web analytics tools to summarize and examine data from their growing numbers of second-generation online applications.For years, enterprises have used traditional Web-analytics tools to simply measure page views and keep track of traffic on corporate Web sites.
Yahoo has improved its BrowserPlus technology for advanced Web applications and now lets other Web sites use it. BrowserPlus can be plugged into a person's Web browser to make Web-based applications work more like native desktop programs. The most important features are a better upload interface and the desktop notifications.
Yahoo! announced that Google has canceled the advertising services agreement. The company believes in the benefits of the agreement and is disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend it in court. Google notified Yahoo! of its refusal to move forward with implementation of the agreement following indication from the Department of Justice that it would seek to block it, despite Yahoo!'s proposed revisions to address the DOJ's concerns.
The 2008 Presidential election's brought a new battleground to the forefront of the political arena - online. The online activities of both Barack Obama and John McCain, and their UK counterparts, highlights the increasing reach and influence of online channels and seems to be setting a trend for elections to come.
Read MoreWithin few days Google will begin to distribute a third bera version of its Chrome Web Browser. The release takes on bugs, performance and security weaknesses. It will be automaticaly updated in the next days.
At this year's WWDC, Apple announced that the next version of its operating system would take a break from introducing new features and focus on performance. They delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more. In an effort to deliver the best users experience, they hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world's most advanced operating system.
There will be just two more security updates for Firefox 2.0 before it retires at the end of this year. According to Mozilla's plan the last update of the older browser will be Firefox 2.0.0.19. The current Firefox is 2.0.0.17, which was released last month to patch 14 vulnerabilities.
This week Sun finally anounced the Java Platform Edition 6 Update 10, after nearly two-months delay. It offers an improved startup for applications and applets and drag-and-drop capabilities for applets.