Is Yahoo blocking emails with links to the Occupy Wall Street website? The short answer is yes, sometimes. We were able to send emails through our ancient, all-but-forgotten Yahoo accounts (it's been a while, Chunkylover53@yahoo.com!) but check out this video, which shows someone trying and failing to send an email with the www.occupywallstreet.org url in the body. After clicking send, the user is told: "Your message was not sent. Suspicious activity has been detected on your account. To protect your account and our users, your message has not been sent." Instead, check out this teaser for tonight's new episode of "Raising Hope"! more ›

A CUNY department chair who was fired from the university is going after Yahoo to give up the name of the student who sent scandalous emails to the school's brass. Dr. Zulema Blair claims that she was fired from her job in the Public Administration department of CUNY's Medgar Evers College following an anonymous email from a student claiming she was having sex with students and had a student's baby. more ›

The former University of Tennessee student who successfully hacked into former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email account during the 2008 election season was sentenced to one year and one day in prison. David Kernell, 20, was convicted this past April; Palin said at the time, "As Watergate taught us, we rightfully reject illegally breaking into candidates’ private communications for political intrigue in an attempt to derail an election." Still, this is great publicity for Sarah Palin's Alaska, the TLC reality show that debuts on Sunday (photos of the hockey mom and family). more ›

How come Times Square gets all of the perks? First it got all of those free chairs, then it got free bathrooms, now it gets free WiFi! From now through next year, Yahoo will provide free wireless internet service to those who visit the pedestrian island on Broadway between 43rd and 44th streets. Passersby who aren't carrying their computers can even borrow laptops on a first-come, first-served basis, according to the Daily News. Two years ago, CBS launched a similar promotion in a wider swath of Midtown — minus the free computers.
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Giving business analysts something to talk about besides the economy, Microsoft has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo!. The offer is at $31/share, which is 62% more than Yahoo's closing price. more ›