{"id":82287,"date":"2013-07-16T02:49:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=82287"},"modified":"2013-07-16T02:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T00:51:05","slug":"yahoo-e-mail-requests-for-inactive-names-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/82287-yahoo-e-mail-requests-for-inactive-names-goes-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo e-mail requests for inactive names goes live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is allowing people to place claims on inactive email addresses that are being given a second life.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity to request the identifications began Monday afternoon and will extend through Aug. 7. Up to five different names can be submitted at wishlist.yahoo.com .<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Inc. says a substantial number of old email IDs are being made available, but isn&#8217;t providing specifics.<\/p>\n<p>The email IDs are being released a month after the Sunnyvale, California, company notified users that they would have 30 days to log into an inactive account if they wanted to keep it.<\/p>\n<p>People awarded the rights to the recycled email addresses will have a 48-hour period to activate the accounts beginning Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/82003-sa-science-website-outdated-since-2008.html\">SA science website outdated since 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/82169-africa-one-step-closer.html\">.Africa one step closer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/82023-tired-of-helping-the-cia-quit-facebook-minister.html\">Tired of helping the CIA? Quit Facebook: minister<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/81755-biggest-south-african-websites-2.html\">Biggest South African websites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is allowing people to place claims on inactive email addresses that are being given a second life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":82289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,2744],"class_list":["post-82287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82291,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82287\/revisions\/82291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}