LinkSys, together with Yahoo!, offers a cordless phone that supports Yahoo! Messenger with Voice’s VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service. By using Linksys’ CIT310 Dual-Mode Cordless phone, users of Yahoo! Messengers that subcribe to Yahoo! Phone Out service can conveniently make free internet-based calls to their friends or families on their Contact List. Connected to a USB base station, the phone gives people the freedom to take their Yahoo! Messenger with Voice calls away from the PC and into other rooms. Of course, traditional landline/PSTN phone connection is supported as well, and users can instantly switch between the two services with the touch of a button.

The Linksys Dual-Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (CIT310) is currently available on Amazon for $99.99. And here’s the detail list of features:

• Supports Yahoo! Messenger with Voice’s Internet-based calling services
• Free PC-to-PC calling
• Phone Out: PC-to-Phone calling
• Phone In: Phone-to-PC calling
• Supports traditional landline/PSTN calls using a local phone line
• Color Display
• Yahoo! Messenger Contact List display and search
• Yahoo! Local Search based on city zip codes
• Weather search
• Yahoo! Messenger Status Message (available, online, busy, etc.)
• Yahoo! Address Book access
• Call waiting for both incoming VoIP and PSTN calls
• Intercom Call between handsets
• Caller ID for both VoIP and PSTN calls
• Last Number Redial
• Polyphonic ring tones, and Melodies
• Single base station supports up to six additional DECT based phones for PTSN calls
• Headset jack for connecting a headset
• Multi-language support (English, French, Spanish)
• A full charge on the battery enables up to 100 hours of standby time and up to 10 hours of talk time

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Users of the two instant messaging service will not just able to exchange instant messages, but also able to see their friends’ online presence, share select emoticons, and add new contacts from either service to their friends’ list.

Currently, AOL instant messaging service (AIM) holds the biggest shares on the instant messaging market. They 51.5 million unique U.S. users in September, compared with about 27.3 million for MSN Messenger and 21.9 million for Yahoo’s Messenger, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

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Is it good? Well, I did bought a domain name from them (for $2.99 too), and I must say that I totally satisfy with it. My new domain name was up and running within hours. I’ve had several domain names, all from different registrar, but none of them were set up as fast as this one. Combined with this excellent webhosting, my domain is open for business only within 4-5 hours after I paid for it.

So, yes. For me, Yahoo! Domains is good and highly recommended.

As usual, there are some limitation for the offer. It is open to new Domain customers only, limited to one offer per customer, and one use per customer on a single account. Again, the domain name promotion will expire October 31, 2005 at 11:59 PM PST.

Complete list of features from Yahoo! Domains:

• Domain name registration. You may purchase domains for a contract term of 1, 2, 3 or 5 years.
• A choice of domain extensions. Choose from .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info
• A bonus starter web page. This allows you to post your name, contact information, and text content about yourself or your business at your domain. You’ll choose from standard templates to determine the look of the page, but note: these templates cannot be altered by adding graphics or additional pages.
• Domain forwarding. Forward traffic from your new domain name to an existing site.
• Email forwarding. Direct mail sent to your new domain name to an existing free Yahoo! mailbox.
• Easy-to-use Yahoo! Domains control panel. This feature lets you manage your domain name, starter web page, upgrades, and billing.
• 24-hour toll-free customer phone and email support.
• Easy upgrades. Change your plan to Custom Mailbox, Business Mail, Web Hosting products or Merchant Solutions packages.

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“Over the past three months the nature of the IM threat has continued to evolve with increasing levels of sophistication and rates of infection demonstrated by IM worms and viruses,” IMlogic CTO Jon Sakoda said.

MSN Messenger users are the number one target of the attack, sharing 62% of reported incidents. 31% goes to AIM client, and the rest, 7%, targets Yahoo! Messenger users. Among all of the attack, 87% were worm-based, 12% hijacked file transfer to deliver viruses, and 1% utilized system vulnerabilities. Altogether, 713 different threats have been reported for IM and P2P applications.

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The current Yahoo! Domains promotion is a domain name registration for $4.98/year each. It’s kinda tricky though. If you go to their website (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains), you’ll see that the price for the domain name registration is still normal, $9.95.

So how you can get the promotion? Simple. Just use the current promotion code, ‘COFFEE‘. Go to the following URL: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=COFFEE ; and the price will be cut to half.

Looks like Coffee is not just good for your health, huh? :p

Note that the same limitation apply to the current Yahoo! Domains offer. It is open to new Domain customers only, limited to one offer per customer, and one use per customer on a single account. Again, the domain name promotion will expire September 30, 2005 at 11:59 PM PST.

Complete list of features from Yahoo! Domains:

• Domain name registration. You may purchase domains for a contract term of 1, 2, 3 or 5 years.
• A choice of domain extensions. Choose from .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info
• A bonus starter web page. This allows you to post your name, contact information, and text content about yourself or your business at your domain. You’ll choose from standard templates to determine the look of the page, but note: these templates cannot be altered by adding graphics or additional pages.
• Domain forwarding. Forward traffic from your new domain name to an existing site.
• Email forwarding. Direct mail sent to your new domain name to an existing free Yahoo! mailbox.
• Easy-to-use Yahoo! Domains control panel. This feature lets you manage your domain name, starter web page, upgrades, and billing.
• 24-hour toll-free customer phone and email support.
• Easy upgrades. Change your plan to Custom Mailbox, Business Mail, Web Hosting products or Merchant Solutions packages.

[ Via Start.Com.My Blog ]

According to their FAQ, Yahoo! predicts the result by analyzing your typing speed and spaces between search words. Those two information are used to figure out when to ask Yahoo! Search for a result. After that, they’ll try to find and return the most relevant result based on what you have typed.

Why feel lucky when you can be right? With Instant Search, results instantly appear for Yahoo! Shortcuts and common searches.

[ Via Benny Chandra ]

Yahoo!-style logo maker use the Yahoo! font provided by Gaut Fonts. Sampe output below.

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When I come across Yahoo! War today, there was several ‘garbage’ HTML on the top of the page (see screenshot). At the bottom of it, this message follows:

This site was attacked by HTML injection to display porn. Site admin: please fix this hole. This HTML injection will hide the porn temporarily at least. -http://hansmast.com

According to the message, Yahoo War is currently being attack by HTML injection technique.

Does it really under attack by hacker?

Updated:
The site is completely gone now. Only that message appears. Other part of the site, including the garbage on the screenshot, is gone.

VoIP is a technology that allows you to make telephone calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular (or analog) phone line. Some services using VoIP may only allow you to call other people using the same service, but others may allow you to call anyone who has a telephone number – including local, long distance, mobile, and international numbers. Also, while some services only work over your computer or a special VoIP phone, other services allow you to use a traditional phone through an adaptor.

A subset of of VoIP services, called PC-to-phone service, is on the rise right now. With these services, users can make calls to and receive calls from regular phones on their PC’s as long they have a broadband connection, VoIP software downloaded from the Web and a headset.

One advantage of such services is the ability to make calls through an Internet-connected laptop when cellular service is unreliable. Many people also prefer the convenience of talking while working on a PC; the services can operate while you are doing other tasks on the computer. Another advantage is price. PC-to-phone VoIP rates are less expensive than conventional phone calls and in many cases cheaper than phone-to-phone VoIP services, which route calls through broadband modems to regular phones.

The first company that offer PC-to-Phone service using VoIP is Skype. Skype gives a (mostly) free VoIP service using file-sharing technology. Now other companies try to follow Skype and get a piece of the VoIP market from them. Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft (who’ve just bought Teleo, a VoIP service company) have each announced plans to add new phone services to future versions of their instant messaging programs. And last week, Google introduced Google Talk, a free service that enables users to talk through their computers and could be a first step toward a PC-to-phone service.

PC-to-phone services available today from companies like Skype, SIPphone, i2Telecom and Dialpad Communications offer many features like free PC-to-PC calling, conference calls, voice mail, choice of phone numbers, call forwarding and reduced long-distance rates, especially for international calls. But as with phone-to-phone VoIP services, call quality is not always perfect.

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If you’re using instant messenger, you might want to display you’re WinAmp currently playing song on your instant messenger status. This way, your friend might get to know you better since they’ll see what song you’re currently listening (which probably your favourite songs). You can also tease your friends by playing some rare songs or the newest single from your friend’s favourite singer :p

Fortunately, now there are already a bunch of plugins for WinAmp outthere that make displaying current playing song on instant messenger status possible. Here are some of them.

For Yahoo! Messenger, I’m using WA2Y – YM Status Changer v0.96. It’s one of the plugin for Yahoo! Messenger that really works. I’ve tried two other plugins with no success before I ended up with WA2Y. It’s highly customizable too. You can change the status format (how WinAmp current playing song displayed on YM status message) and the type of status for YM if you quit WinAmp.

Other WinAmp plugin to display current playing song on Yahoo! Messenger:

• YM Status Mixer
• Y! Amp
• YMS Status Changer
• yStatus
• MS Gramp

Next, MSN Messenger. My choice is MSN Messenger 7 Current Playing Song. Eventhough the title of this plugin is long, but this one installed without any problem at all. No configuration dialog too. Simply install and play.

Other WinAmp plugin to display current playing song on MSN Messenger:

• Moo – Gen MSN
• Gen MSN
• Song Title to MSN
• MSN Now Playing
• Toaster

For other instant messengers (I only use Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger, so I haven’t tried these plugins):

• Messanger Status – for ICQLite/Pro and Trillian
• SINfo Beta – for AOL Instant Messenger
• Now Playing – for AOL Instant Messenger
• AudiStream RC1 – for AOL Instant Messenger, American Online, and Yahoo! Messenger

You can also display your current playing song on mIRC and other IRC client, I’ll post about that later :p

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