Yahoo Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends come online and send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals account, or when you have upcoming events recorded in Yahoo Calendar.
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Yahoo! Messenger - Instant messaging allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends. Unlike e-mail, instant messages appear as soon they`re sent. By downloading the Yahoo! Messenger application to your computer, you can send instant messages to other people from around the globe, send them files or have a voice conference.
Other features include voice chat, file transfer, mail and stock quote alerts, sports scores, news, and much more.
Key features :
Photo Sharing
Drag-and-drop photos into your IM windows and talk about them like you’re there.
LAUNCHcast Radio
Make your own radio station and listen to music you like!
Yahoo! Games
Challenge your friends to classic Yahoo! Games in the IM window.
IMVironments
Use interactive themed backgrounds in your IMs.
Find, Add, Share Friends
Easily get connected with the people who matter most.
Yahoo! Search
Search from your IM window, and get results both you and your friend can see.
File Transfer
Drag-and-drop files for real-time sharing and instant notification that they’ve been received.
Address Book
Synchronize all your contact information.
Stealth Settings
Make yourself appear online to some and offline to others.
Audibles
Let these animated characters say it out loud for you!
Emoticons
Express your feelings with these animated smiling faces.
Yahoo! Avatars
Represent yourself with a stylized graphical image.
Display Images
Select an image to represent yourself to your friends.
Skins
Select new visual designs or disable them altogether.
Voice
Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls and enjoy great sound quality and voice mail.
Take Yahoo! with You
Stay connected to Yahoo! Messenger on your mobile phone.
Webcam
Share live video with friends and family around the world.
Conference
Exchange text messages with multiple people in one IM.
Yahoo Inc. is more than doubling its limits on free e-mail storage in its latest move to combat two of its biggest rivals, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
E-mail accountholders will get up to 250 megabytes of free storage effective Monday, up from 100 megabytes previously offered by Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. The change follows Microsoft’s recent decision to boost the free storage on its Hotmail service to 250 megabytes per account.
Both Yahoo and Hotmail have dramatically increased their storage limits since Google rolled out its free e-mail service offering in April. The Google service, called Gmail, offers each accountholder up to 1,000 megabytes of e-mail storage.
Yahoo, which runs the world’s most popular Web site, is hoping the improvements will retain its current e-mail users and perhaps lure converts from other services.
Unlike Yahoo’s e-mail service and Hotmail, Gmail remains in a test mode and is available only through invitations from Google or existing accountholders.
“Gmail is an interesting competitor,” said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo’s vice president of communications products. “It really has raised the game for everyone and that’s good for consumers.”
Besides increasing storage limits, Yahoo says it has upgraded the tools for verifying the identities of e-mailers and improved the features used to search e-mail content.
Yahoo promotes itself as the largest provider of free e-mail, with tens of millions of users. The company declined to offer precise numbers.
News source: ABCNews