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Jerry Yang is out as CEO of Yahoo! after a less than memorable year.  Today, Carol Bartz is the new CEO.  Does she have what it takes to right the ship? Her past experience, while no indicator of future performance, shows that she made Audodesk a huge success.  When she… Continue Reading »

Yahoo and Intel plan to change what they are most known for - the computer, and be known for an advancement in the television industry.  I will break this article up into two sections, one being about Yahoo and the other being about Intel.  Yahoo and their Widget Channel Yahoo… Continue Reading »

If you like being hooked into all of your instant messaging services without opening up a hundred IM clients, Meebo is a great alternative.  Meebo is a web application that lets you log in to tons of IM services.  Meebo already supported AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, and Yahoo.  Now… Continue Reading »

Earlier this week we heard the news of Jerry Yang resigning as CEO of Yahoo, the result of a painfully disappointing year for the company that saw failure after failure.  They have watched their grip on Internet search slip through their fingers and they are in danger of slipping into… Continue Reading »

Being a CEO of a major brand on the net isn’t easy.  Getting the job is even harder, that is where Gadgetell comes in.  By entering our contest, you’ll earn our public recommendation to Yahoo!‘s board for the open CEO position.  Warm up those golf clubs, here is what we… Continue Reading »

2008 has not been kind to Yahoo.  It began with a buyout offer from Microsoft that they promptly screwed up, and was followed by the disintegration of their ad deal with Google and two rounds of layoffs.  Now it appears CEO Jerry Yang has finally had enough. Yang announced his… Continue Reading »

The helpful folks at TeleNav shot me out their new Shotgun and here are my first impressions.  If you are planning on buying a GPS device this holiday season, this is one to watch carefully.  I’ve had the device in my hands now for about 30 minutes and already am… Continue Reading »

TeleNav, the on-phone GPS provider that I rely on, announced this morning they are in the connected GPS game.  This news comes on the heels of Dash GPS announcing they were done making their stand along connected GPS device.  Let’s get to it: how good is this GPS device? From… Continue Reading »

Things aren’t looking good for Yahoo right now.  Google has pulled out of the advertising deal that looked so promising for both companies citing potential antitrust issues.  Now, CEO Jerry Yang is saying that the Microsoft buyout was probably the best thing that could have happened.  This coming even after… Continue Reading »

One for the “impressive moments in tech history”: I just received a Dash GPS device for a review last week.  I’ve played with the device for a couple of days and now learn the product is out of production.  Even odder, driving around on lunch today, I was thinking they’ve… Continue Reading »