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Wednesday 1 June 2011

Yahoo Finds Delicious Buyer

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YouTube founders set to acquire bookmarking service.

Yahoo is selling off its delicious social bookmarking site, after nearly five years of ownership.

Technology startup AVOS, founded by YouTube founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, is acquiring delicious for an undisclosed sum from Yahoo. Hurley and Chen sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion in October of 2006.

"We spoke with numerous parties interested in acquiring the site, and chose Chad and Steve based on their passion and unique vision for Delicious,” said John Matheny, SVP of Communications and Communities at Yahoo in a statement.

AVOS has pledged to help grow and expand delicious to enable users to, "discover the web's tastiest content."

Yahoo sent out notices to delicious users yesterday notifying them of the new ownership change.Yahoo acquired delicious (originally known as del.icio.us) in December of 2005. In recent years, Yahoo has struggled with keeping delicious open and announced their intention to find a new owner for the site in late 2010.

"To continue using Delicious, you must agree to let Yahoo! transfer your bookmarks to AVOS," Yahoo stated in its email to users. "After a transition period and after your bookmarks are transferred, you will be subject to the AVOS terms of service and privacy policy."

Yahoo added that Delicious in its current form will be available until approximately July 2011. If a user does not transfer their bookmarks to AVOS before then, Yahoo warns that the users will no longer be able to use their existing Delicious accounts and will not have access to your existing bookmarks or account information.

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The Top iPhone & iPad Downloads of All Tim

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Apple reveals which free and paid apps have been downloaded the most for the iPhone and iPad.

In advance of that big announcement, Apple has released a list of the top ten most downloaded apps on both devices in the paid and free category.

Entertainment titles dominated the paid apps for iPhone, but the top ten free apps were more varied. The most popular free apps include such familiar titles as Facebook, the Weather Channel, Pandora Radio, Skype, Google Earth and Google Mobile. On the paid side, the list includes the mega-popular Angry Birds and Tap, Tap Revenge along with Bejeweled 2 + Blitz, Doodle Jump and Flight Control. The only non-game on the paid list was the 'AppBox Pro-Alarm Clock, Wallet, Mirror, Flashlight and more' utility app.

On the iPad the results were far less game heavy. The top paid iPad list includes two $4.99 titles: the SoundHound music app and the Flight Track flight tracking application.

Raven Zachary, a well-known consultant to mobile developers, comments on surprises in the top app breakout and what Apple needs to do next. Datamation has the story.

Third Of UK Surfers Victim of PC Viruses

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Over 30 per cent of Brits fell victim to viruses at the end of 2010, despite having security software.

Figures from Eurostat found that 31 per cent of surfers caught a virus or other computer infection in the last three months of 2010, with seven per cent suffering financial loss as a result, despite 88 per cent of victims saying they had security software installed.

The UK was by no means the worst country in Europe with a virus problem, though. The Report released to coincide with Internet Safety Day, found that people living in Bulgaria (58 per cent), Malta (50 per cent) and Slovakia (47 per cent) had the most victims. Austria had the lowest at 14 per cent.

Despite the UK having one of the lowest virus rates, it was one of the countries most attacked by phishing, with seven per cent of surfers having their card fradulently used or being duped into handing over money to scammers.

The survey looked at 200,000 computer users across 27 countries in the European Union.

Attacks on mobile phones rose by 46 per cent in the same period, according to reports by McAfee. However, only 947 viruses were actually detected, which is a relatively small amount considering that 100.9 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the last quarter of 2010.

Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

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"I think this is a great proof-point for Linux. It's an amazing achievement for the whole community. This can be seen as a confirmation of the superiority of the open development model."

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Watson supercomputer

"The traditional boundaries don't really apply anymore. The iPad is a computing device that can run applications. It has a processor, uses memory and has local storage. How many years have consumers been asking for instant on and longer battery life? Apple's addressed that need and consumers have voted with their dollars."

Apple leading the market

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"We have a tax policy that is just broken. It's at an unreasonabl[y] high rate, and then it's the worst of all worlds. The majority of our growth, almost 70 percent of our market, and probably 90 percent of long-term growth is outside of the country and we have a policy that makes us non-competitive outside the country and then not only doesn't encourage us to bring it back, but penalizes it with double taxation."

Cisco CEO John Chambers"> calling for changes to corporate tax policy

"Wikileaks is not surprising to anyone here. The State Department learned what the music and video industry learned 10 years ago -- it's easy to move digital files. I think we're seeing some new business models emerge around secrecy because you can't give access about something to a thousand people and expect it to stay a secret."

Security author Bruce Schneier speaking in a panel discussion on cyberwar at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. (eSecurity Planet)

"What you're seeing is this collapse -- this lack of differentiation -- that's going to happen between what is a consumer technology and what is an enterprise technology. What the enterprises really want is manageability, security. There's an entire webOS roadmap to build in all of the security models, so not only is it a great consumer device, but it will be the best and most friendly enterprise device that allows the enterprises to manage it, control it, secure the piece of information that's important to the enterprise -- but all in one device experience.

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$1.2 billion purchase of Palm

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Apple's iPad continues to attract interest in enterprise circles, playing well to an increasingly mobile workforce. The latest example is this week's release ofZendesk for iPad, the first tablet version of the cloud-based help deskapplication.

"This is not a port, it's a hundred percent native iPad application," Zack Urlocker, COO at Zendesk, told InternetNews.com. "It's a really nice interface and fits well with our mobile strategy, which is that you should be able to offer service and support to customers anytime you need to wherever you are. With the iPad help desk app, you could be home on the couch or riding on a train and still be able to check in."

The company said that in addition to moving its help desk app to another mobile platform, Zendesk for iPad also has new features. For example, the mobile help desk app includes access to a real-time list of the tickets assigned to help desk agents and the ability to easily bookmark a ticket to respond to it later, or use it for future reference.

The news comes at a time of growing competition in the suddenly red hot tablet space as a number of companies, including HP, Research in Motion and Samsung, look to take on the iPad. Although pitched primarily as a consumer device by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), the iPad has seen fast corporate adoption. Apple claims 80 percent of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying the iPad.

Get all the details on the Zendesk release at Datamation.