Yahoo Messenger-less
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Blog: Yahoo IM fixed after temporary problems
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Instant-messaging conversations, though quick, aren't always fleeting.
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What Yahoo! can do for Microsoft--and what it can't.
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A little less conversation and a little more action
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Gizmo Project VoIP software now lets you chat with AIM and MSN Messenger users on the same network.
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Blog: The News Corp.-owned social network, having ditched its old browser-based IM service, formally unveils the new download after a year of buzzless beta.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo, disconcertingly unable toÂ develop a popular social networking site, will try to accentuate the social networking capabilities of Yahoo Messenger when it releases on Tuesday a beta upgrade of this widely used instant messaging service.
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Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) has beefed up e-mail storage for users of its free e-mail service from 100 megabytes to 250 MB. The Internet giant also unveiled an anti-spam authentication technology called DomainKeys, which curtails messages sent from spoofed addresses.
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MSN has delayed by a week the start of its beta for its MSN Messenger 7 instant-messaging client until some time next week. MSN officials had said the company planned to commence the MSN Messenger 7 beta this
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Yahoo on Monday dropped the beta tag from its revamped webmail service, just a few months after Microsoft began rolling out its new Windows Live Hotmail. Like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail's upgrade offers a new desktop application-like interface using AJAX, but customers can choose to keep the "Classic" look.
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By Jay Lee, Houston Chronicle  Sep. 5--Q: I want to select Yahoo e-mail as my default e-mail service for Internet Explorer. I know I have done this before, but cannot seem to accomplish it now. I have even been on an extended e-mail conversation with Yahoo support to no avail.
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Beta testers find flaws in a new feature of the instant messaging app.
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IM DNWFM, WFU? If you're an avid instant messenger, you probably know what I mean: "Instant messaging doesn't work for me, does it work for you?" Yet I appear to be on the way to becoming a minority, a fuddy-dud resisting the text-chat party. Instant messaging, or IM, is catching on with...
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has completed the joining of its instant messaging network with Yahoo! Messenger, meaning any of the services' combined 350 million users can now send messages to those on either network. The interoperability was being beta tested since mid-July.
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A select group of testers next week will get an early look at MSN Messenger 7.0, the next version of Microsoft&#39;s popular instant messaging client.
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The Zend DEveloper Zone has posted another Ajax-related tutorial, this time talking about the creation of an Ajax-based chat application for your website using the Zend Framework.   This tutorial is a step by step introduction to creating a lightweight chat application using XML as a storage medium. [...] Even with the advent of irc and instant messengers, users continue see an alternative web based solution as attractive for a number of reasons whether its limited access to instant messengers through a corporate proxy or simply for convenience sake.   He starts off by laying the groundwork for the app, setting up the directory structure in Framework fashion. There's a brief look at making sure your .htaccess file is correct for the application (allowing public and javascript through) before getting to the actual code. There's a good bit of code there and some of it is explained, but if you're not familiar with the framework, you might be a little lost. Finally, he includes the main interface - the IndexController - that handles all of the requests/responses to and from the user.   You can download the sample application here [tar.gz] or here [zip].
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Users will be able to receive news alerts and information via IM.