The total value (market capitalization) of Yahoo has steadily declined over the past several years. Maybe they could try something different, like protecting their users' mailboxes and address books (while they deliver ads to them).
Yahoo's fundamental business problem is that they've been losing eyeballs and, thus, all important advertising revenue to other companies, particularly to Google. That's been reflected in their loss of e-mail users, too. If users can't trust Yahoo to keep their private information private -- and they can't if they use Yahoo Mail's Web UI -- then users will continue leaving Yahoo. Fixing that security problem isn't going to solve all of Yahoo's business problems. But it's a prerequisite. Some things you've just got to do simply to keep the lights on, and that's one of them. My views are my own, of course. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
