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Yahoo! Backtracks on WP7 Apology, Gets it Wrong

Yesterday I wrote about how Yahoo! had apologised for being the cause of the Windows Phone data leak.  It didn’t last long before the company backtracked.  In a statement yesterday the company said… Yahoo! Mail is widely available on tens of millions of mobile phones, including those running on Apple iOS, Android, Nokia Symbian, and RIM. The issue on the Windows Phones is specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo! Mail and does not impact Yahoo! Mail on these other mobile devices. Yahoo! has offered to provide Microsoft a near-term solution for the implementation they chose, and is encouraging Microsoft to change to a standard way of integrating with Yahoo! Mail, which would result in a permanent fix This statement contradicts their one of only earlier that day when they held their hands up and said sorry

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Yahoo! Backtracks on WP7 Apology, Gets it Wrong

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