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Over the past few days a number of Yahoo Mail users have complained about not being able to access the email service. The company didn’t say anything, so it wasn’t known for sure exactly what was causing the problem. Yahoo has finally acknowledged that something is indeed wrong, and it apologizes for recent difficulties that users have been facing with Yahoo Mail. The company revealed that the downtime was caused by a hardware problem in one of its mail data centers, and that the problem turned out to be harder to fix than Yahoo originally expected.

Yahoo says that it has “dozens of people” working around the clock to get the service fully up and running again. It is keeping customers up to date through the Yahoo Mail Twitter account. So far, POP mail access has been restored, it is still working on restoring IMAP. Best way to access Yahoo Mail on a mobile device right now is through a Yahoo Mail app, available only for iOS and Android. The company says that affected servers have been able to deliver over 30 percent of the emails that were sent during the outage. It also says that some people might still be facing issues, and reassures that it won’t rest until the problem is fixed once and for all.

Yahoo Mail Was Down Due To A Hardware Problem original content from Ubergizmo.

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and other big names in tech have joined forces to protest government surveillance worldwide, calling for “Global Government Surveillance Reform” to better balance keeping citizens safe while also preserving their privacy. The group, which also includes AOL, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yahoo, sets out five principles for transparency, oversight, accountability, and respect, […]

This article was written on September 21, 2007 by CyberNet.

Forbes has released their list of the 400 richest Americans where this year, even one BILLION dollars wasn’t enough to land you on the list.  As we’ve heard, the rich are getting richer with the minimum net worth on this list being $1.3 billion dollars compared to $300 million last year.

Topping the list, as expected, is Bill Gates with a net worth of over 59 Billion. Coming in 2nd place with a net worth of $52 billion is Gates’ close friend, Warren Buffet. There are a handful of other names and companies found in the top 400 that are familiar in the tech World, and within that list were four from Microsoft, five from Google, two from eBay and two from Yahoo.

Take a look below at some of those familiar names and companies. You’ll notice that both Sergey Brin and Larry Page are on the list ranked at #5. Compared to last year, their net worth increased by $4.4 billion and $4.5 billion respectively. Just with the 16 individuals below, they have a combined net worth of 184 Billion! If we were to add up the net worth of the entire Forbes 400 list, it would be $1.54 trillion. Now that’s a lot of money!

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December is here and 2013 is slowly coming to an end. A lot of advancements in the technology sector were made this year and a lot of amazing products were released as well. Search habits changed as well, as 2013 was full of different events, trends and high-profile trials. Yahoo has revealed the top Yahoo searches in 2013, the company has launched its 2013 Year In Review page which looks back at daily search habits of million of internet users around the globe.

The top search on Yahoo in 2013 was singer, songwriter and actress Miley Cyrus, who has caused quite a few controversies this year. We can image that internet searches spiked after her rather controversial performance at the VMAs. Cyrus dethrones reality star Kim Kardashian, who was at the top of the list back in 2012, she comes in at second this year trailed by model Kate Upton in third. Minecraft, Obamacare (the affordable care act) and the iPhone 5 take fourth, sixth and ninth spots respectively. Top two obsessions on Yahoo’s Year In Review include Duck Dynasty and Breaking Bad, in that order. One of the most popular food related searches was the Cronut, a combination of croissant and donut that took New York by storm. That just about wraps it up for 2013. With 2014 around the corner, we can surely expect a lot of new things to search for come next year.

Top Yahoo Searches In 2013 Revealed original content from Ubergizmo.

Fiber-optic cable taps, not clandestine agreements with big cloud data users like Google and Yahoo, may have given the NSA its treasure-trove access to internet traffic, insiders suspect, with the government agency potentially targeting interconnects rather than data centers themselves. While data centers are heavily secured, the fiber-optic cable links between them are traditionally unencrypted, […]