Tomorrow, Yahoo! will announce the general availability of the new version of Yahoo! Mail. The new service includes two new major features: free text messaging to mobile phone numbers (available in the US, Canada, India and the Philippines), and integrated instant messaging (IM) with users of Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger.
According to a Yahoo! representative, the new version of Yahoo! Mail also includes speed and performance enhancements as well as productivity refinements. Yahoo! will continue to offer Yahoo! Mail Classic, its traditional Web mail interface.
The new Yahoo! Mail is faster and more responsive than previous beta versions Search refinements Users can now refine their e-mail search results using advanced search options, including the ability to narrow results by sender, folder, date, attachment type and message status to pinpoint specific queries Shortcuts (U.S. only). Users are now able to right click on underlined dates, names and keywords within messages and take additional action, such as adding events directly to their Yahoo! Calendars, adding friends to their Contacts, immediately viewing a Yahoo! Map of an address, or performing a Web search on a keyword. Also added are six color themes allowing user to personalize the look of their e-mail experience.
In addition to integrated text messaging and instant messaging, it features other enhanced capabilities such as tabbed navigation, a reading pane, an integrated calendar and an RSS reader.
A co-branded version of the new Yahoo! Mail will also be available in the fall to customers using the following broadband Internet services: AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, Verizon Yahoo! and Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet. The new Yahoo! Mail will be available this fall to Yahoo! Small Business Mail users as well.
Both the new Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Mail Classic are free services with unlimited e-mail storage.
Update: Monday 10am - PC World has a nice writeup on the news.
According to a Yahoo! representative, the new version of Yahoo! Mail also includes speed and performance enhancements as well as productivity refinements. Yahoo! will continue to offer Yahoo! Mail Classic, its traditional Web mail interface.
The new Yahoo! Mail is faster and more responsive than previous beta versions Search refinements Users can now refine their e-mail search results using advanced search options, including the ability to narrow results by sender, folder, date, attachment type and message status to pinpoint specific queries Shortcuts (U.S. only). Users are now able to right click on underlined dates, names and keywords within messages and take additional action, such as adding events directly to their Yahoo! Calendars, adding friends to their Contacts, immediately viewing a Yahoo! Map of an address, or performing a Web search on a keyword. Also added are six color themes allowing user to personalize the look of their e-mail experience.
In addition to integrated text messaging and instant messaging, it features other enhanced capabilities such as tabbed navigation, a reading pane, an integrated calendar and an RSS reader.
A co-branded version of the new Yahoo! Mail will also be available in the fall to customers using the following broadband Internet services: AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet, Verizon Yahoo! and Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet. The new Yahoo! Mail will be available this fall to Yahoo! Small Business Mail users as well.
Both the new Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Mail Classic are free services with unlimited e-mail storage.
Update: Monday 10am - PC World has a nice writeup on the news.
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BREAKING PRIVACY NEWS! "YAHOO SHOOTS ITSELF IN THE FOOT AGAIN"
June 18,2009
Yahoo! has gotten me for the LAST time. Twice in 2 weeks! they have gotten me!
Today, this is the LAST straw! I logged in today and suddenly in some oblivious little window I start getting yahoo messenger messages from my OLD YM account that I don't use anymore. I hear the "blips" but I don't see any YM page! I didn't log into YM.
It's freaking me out! I try logging into Yahoo messenger the traditional way, I log out. I am fracking offline to YM, but still I hear these blips!!! AND EVERYONE SEES ME AS "AVAILABLE" NOT INVISIBLE! NO PRIVACY! x-girlfriends, spammers, etc! so I start closing stuff and minimizing windows and there in the corner under a bunch of stuff is this miniature YM window where my gf is sending me messages asking "Why are you logged into your OLD YM account?" Who are you chatting with? Why won't you talk to me?... All this fracking BS for yahoo?? (see below for further rant) I am done with their BS that is too much BS in one week! I can't believe this is not the talk of the internet! Did I mention, there is no way to turn it off permanently????
But wait, there's more!!...
All this After Last weeks debacle!?? They SECRETLY saved some cookie to my PC that made ME, not everyone, just a select few thousand, change their homepage to "m.yahoo.com". You can't change the **** thing. Suddenly you are going to some other homepage! Its a browser Hijack! But its by Damn Yahoo!
I updated my hosts file to not recognize m.yahoo for Fear of compromising my security. Then I had to start using other search services cause MY browser wouldn't recognize plain vanilla yahoo.com
I really hated using the Dogpile search engine, I still refused to use google and already had it 127'd in my hosts file, did the same with M.yahoo.
After days of this frustration I finally did a search to see if anyone else is having the same problem and Viola! they are! complaints galore! which yahoo just ignores. Seems the M.yahoo.com is triggered by a coookie YAHOO SECRETLY PUTS ON YOUR PC which directs YOU and select others to some fracking BETA HomePage without your permission!!
Oh, did I mention its also takes forever to upload a file and and HANGS when you hit the Send key?