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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Yahoo</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
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		<title>Yahoo Enters Merger Talks With Time-Warner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! spent the July 4 weekend in discussions with its lead adviser, Goldman Sachs, and potential bid partners including Time Warner in a desperate bid to defend itself from shareholders meeting on August 1 to vote on whether to re-elect their board.
The possible merger with Times-Warner's AOL division could be worth as much as $10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-enters-merger-talks-with-time-warner/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Yahoo Merger Finally a Reality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Months after Microsoft announced its intention to buy Yahoo, it appears they are finally coming together. Microsoft appears to be willing to raise the price to 32-33$ per share while Yahoo board would be satisfied with $35. Do the math.
At this point, unless I missing something really big, the merger appears to be a foregone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-yahoo-merger-finally-a-reality/</link>
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		<title>MicroHoo To GooHoo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pressure of one unholy alliance (Microsoft + Yahoo) may lead to another (Google + Yahoo). According to WSJ:
Yahoo is closer to outsourcing its core ad search business to Google, after favorable testing of Google's advertisements on its search pages, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ cited people familiar with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microhoo-to-goohoo/</link>
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		<title>How To Stop Yahoo Instant Messenger Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Instant Messenger is notorious for sending unsolicited commercial instant messages and from questionable sources. The yahoo instant messenger client doesn't provide an way, last I checked, to stop such spams. However there is a way.
I use Gaim / Pidgin cross-platform instant messaging client which allows you to stop messages from strangers.
1. Go to Tools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-stop-yahoo-instant-messenger-spam/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft Tightens Noose on Yahoo Board</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo has three weeks to accept Microsoft's $31 per share combined cash and stock offer or Microsoft may lower its bid and also take its offer directly to Yahoo investors, Microsoft said on Saturday.
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said in a letter addressed to Yahoo's board of directors that "now is the time" to negotiate final [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-tightens-noose-on-yahoo-board/</link>
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		<title>419 Nigerian Scam Hits The Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the popularity of blog spamming, can Nigerian scammers (and spammers) be left far behind? Here is an interesting attempt to scam, posted as a comment on blog against this article:
Name: frank taylor &#124; Email: frank****@yahoo.com &#124;  URL: http://KindAttention &#124;  IP: 41.210.17.190 &#124; Feb 8, 9:06 AM &#124; Type: normal [[A (sub)human being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/419-nigerian-scam-hits-the-blogs/</link>
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		<title>How To Change Firefox Location Bar Searching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I'm Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above. Here is how you can change it.
1. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-firefox-location-bar-searching/</link>
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		<title>Bye Bye Yahoo Messenger&#8230;No Thanks To Your Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sick and tired of Yahoo Messenger Spam initiated primarily by Myfreecamhost and now joined by few new initiates too. Everyday, at the most inppropriate times I will get one or more messages from Yahoo Messenger asking me to watch some random female's webcam on myfreecamhost for free (obviously scam). I was using Yahoo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bye-bye-yahoo-messengerno-thanks-to-your-spam/</link>
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		<title>How To Use Yahoo Messenger on Linux (MSN, ICQ, IRC, Google Talk&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Instant Messenger isn't directly available on Linux. However there are several alternatives.
You can use free Pidgin software on Linux. In addition to supporting Yahoo Messenger, it supports AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, MSN IM, Bonjour, Gadu Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, Zephyr and all XMPP protocol compliant instant messengers. It was previously known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-yahoo-messenger-on-linux-msn-icq-irc-google-talk/</link>
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		<title>New Spamming Technique: Yahoo! Messenger Spamming From Myfreecamhost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Either Yahoo! Messenger sponsors spammers (not that would surprise me) or Myfreecamhost has found a loophole in Yahoo Instant Messenger. 
I am daily receiving half a dozen, most likely automated, Yahoo instant messages  from various random email id's on myfreecamhost. Two examples below:
(11/05/2007 08:34:09 AM) kandy0002029@myfreecamhost.com: I thought you might like to watch my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-spamming-technique-yahoo-messenger-spamming-from-myfreecamhost/</link>
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