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Bartz confirmed as the new CEO by Yahoo!

Bartz confirmed as the new CEO by Yahoo!  In the late afternoon on Tuesday, Carol Bartz, executive chairman of the board of Autodesk Inc. was confirmed as the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. by the online company itself.

It has been learnt that Bartz will immediately start with the new role as CEO and a member of Yahoo!'s board of directors.

Via a statement, Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo!'s board informed, “We are very excited to have Carol Bartz leading Yahoo! into its next era of growth. She is the exact combination of seasoned technology executive and savvy leader that the board was looking for.”

Nearly 91 sites in porn crackdown shut down by China

Nearly 91 sites in porn crackdown shut down by China Since the Chinese authorities cracked down on online porn over the weekend, it shut down nearly 50 additional websites and also instructed Internet giants like Google to end any sort of links with such material.

It should be noted that as a part of a month-long campaign, that the government informs is aimed at stamping out online pornography, a total number of 91 sites have been shut down or blocked since Thursday.

How to evade, fix your negative reputation on web

How to evade, fix your negative reputation on webWashington, Jan 12: Just one negative comment on you on the web may be enough to cost you your job, and to evade such an impact, an expert has now given tips on how to avoid and repair comments that could tarnish your internet image.

According to estimates, over 70 percent of employers do a Web search on job applicants as part of their hiring procedures, and more than 50 percent of them confess that they do not prefer applicants who are found to have negative information about them online.

Virgin Mobile ties up with MySpace for social networking

Virgin Mobile ties up with MySpace for social networking Youth-focussed mobile service provider Virgin Mobile has announced that it has linked up with MySpace for offering social networking services. Virgin Mobile users would be glad to know that under the tie up, MySpace would offer its social networking services on Virgin Mobile's WAP-enabld phones starting at Rs 2,999.

Virgin Mobile's youth clients can access to world's major social networking site by simply click on the MySpace link on vBytes and log in the user ID and password. There will be a daily charge of just Rs 5 for accessing vBytes.

Indian Startup Intros ‘VoicePHP’

Indian Startup Intros ‘VoicePHP’ A new programming language known as "VoicePHP" has been announced by an Indian startup with the aim to bring simplicity and universality to Web-enabled voice applications.

If adhered to TringMe, founded by Lucent and Texas Instruments (TXN), Yusuf Motiwala in Bangalore, India in 2007, the concept is not new and it's just a voice-enabled version of the familiar Web programming language PHP (which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Processor").

Twitter-Savvy Hackers Tweak the Twitterati

Twitter-Savvy Recently, the harmonious functioning of Twitter was disrupted, when the micro-blogging website, that lets the users to broadcast short messages to groups of followers laned as a target of a wave of hacking and phishing attacks.

On Monday, it was confirmed by the San Francisco Company that a total number of accounts hijacked were 33, including those of President-elect Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears, and CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez.

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