Yahoo! Technology News FAQ
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Our goal is to make Yahoo! News as comprehensive as possible, and from
time to time we add sources to make your news more complete. Currently,
our technology stories are provided by the following sources:
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Reuters Technology Report
(Default) - Coverage of today's top tech stories from one of the world's
leading wire services. Updates twice a day, M-F.
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Wired News - News and
insight from the writers at Wired and Hotwired. Updates four times a
day, M-F.
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ZDNet News - Tech headlines
and breaking industry news from Ziff-Davis, publisher of several major
computing magazines. Updates once a day, M-F
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Inter@ctive Week
- Stories from the weekly magazine about the Internet. Updates once
a day, M-F.
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MacWeek - Stories
from the weekly magazine for Macintosh users.Updates once a day, M-F.
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PCWeek - Stories
from the weekly magazine for PC users. Updates once a day, M-F.
If you're looking for a news source that we don't currently offer,
be sure to check Yahoo!'s News and
Media category for other news sites.
Yahoo! News provides a limited archive of articles for you to browse. In
technology news, sources are archived for the following lengths of time:
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Reuters: Seven days
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Wired: Seven days
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ZDNet News: One month
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PC Week, Interactive
Week & MacWEEK:
7 to 14 days, depending on how many new stories come in.
The archiving process is continuous and occurs after each fresh update
of stories. To read archived news, use the date links at the bottom of
the index page for each source. To see news from last month, you'll need to click back through
the dates, one week at a time.
If you're looking for stories that are too old for our archives, please
check our Full Coverage
section for an archive of sources on major news stories. Also, Lexis-Nexis
offers their news archives for a fee, and you can find many other services
in our News and Media category.
Unfortunately, we have no way to provide stories that have expired from
our archives.
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at the following e-mail addresses:
We get lots of letters from people asking, "Can you send me articles on...."
The answer is: you can get those articles yourself, with our handy search
function! Using the search box on all Reuters
and Wired news pages,
you can retrieve all the articles we have on a particular topic. (In tech
news, only Reuters and Wired are searchable right now.) We cannot send
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The feature boxes along the left side of the page give you access to other
Yahoo! content while you browse our news pages. In Technology News you
will see the following features:
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Yahoo! Full Coverage - whether it's breaking news or a continuing
story, the Yahoo! editorial staff scours the web for the best stories on
a particular topic. You'll see the top three stories of the day displayed
here, with a link to many more.
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Daily Feature - A rotating list of the top five selling items in
the following categories: personal computers (Mon.), portable computers
(Tues), business software (Wed.), personal productivity software
(Thurs.), printers (Fri.), games (Sat.), and educational
software (Sun).
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Yahoo! Net Events - our comprehensive list of news events and chats
on the web each day. You'll see the very best displayed on the news page,
with a link to hundreds more.
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Yahoo! Categories - check out these Yahoo! categories for more news
sources and information.
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factual or typographical errors, or when you wish to state an opinion about
technology news content, please contact the provider directly:
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us at reuters-admin@yahoo-inc.com.
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show up on Yahoo!, contact PR
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Wire. For a fee, either of these services will make sure hundreds of
news services are aware of any company announcements.
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