Yahoo pumps up e-mail service with online computer applications
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Yahoo has intensified the online battle for search engine devotees by releasing a prototype web-based e-mail service with slick online computer applications.
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Yahoo has started checking incoming e-mail using DomainKeys, its content-signing e-mail authentication technology, the company said Monday.
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Internet-centered programs that compete with the core products of Microsoft are a driver of its bid for Yahoo.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo plans to significantly expand the number of people with access to its next-generation Web mail service, which has been in test, or beta, mode for about one year. Until now, theÂ new Web mail serviceÂ has been available to a limited number of people in the U.S. and to all users in the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Canada, and South Korea. But starting Thursday, Yahoo will roll it out to all users in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Italy, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, and Taiwan. It will take about two weeks for Yahoo to complete this deployment, Yahoo spokeswoman Karen Mahon said. Yahoo plans to remove the beta tag from the new service "in the coming months," she said. This new version is theÂ largest overhaulÂ of Yahoo's Web mail service since its introduction in 1997. Unlike the current version, it works like a desktop application, eliminating the delays found on many other Web-based applications. Among its features are the ability to drag and drop messages into folders, a pane to preview the content of messages, the ability to have multiple message windows open and keyboard shortcuts to, for example, delete or create messages. It also has an integrated RSS reader. The service's calendar tool can now present maps to appointments. This new version extends the traditional Web mail concept from a simple mailbox to a broader central information repository that not only handles e-mail messages, but integrates RSS management, calendaring and instant messaging, and this makes it a significant upgrade, said Allen Weiner, a Gartner analyst. Competition in the once languid Web mail market heated up in April 2004 when Google launched its Gmail service. Since then, Web mail providers such as Yahoo, Microsoft, andÂ AOL have been busy retooling their services, dramatically increasing storage capacity, sharpening spam, and e-mail filters and giving user interfaces extreme makeovers. Much is at stake in the Web mail wars, because the level of attachment users form with their e-mail accounts is much higher than with other online services. A strong Web mail service serves as a user-magnet for portals with other online services. Web mail services have also proved effective for advertising.
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Company says e-mail, calendar and instant messaging will be offered, along with Web search services on future Web portal applications.
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Recently Yahoo unveiled some new features for their email service, Yahoo Mail. Some of the new features include improved search, Address AutoComplete, and full implementation of DomainKeys.
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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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Yahoo Inc  has begun  publicly testing two Web services that are the fruit of  intensive, one-day internal programming competitions the  company has been hosting to foster employee innovation.
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Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced a new mobile phone service that integrates e-mail, instant messaging and social networks.
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If you can&#39;t beat &#39;em, join &#39;em, or so they say. Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) plans to double the storage capacity that comes with its free email product, though one might wonder why it didn&#39;t just go ahead, pull
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Alternative e-mail client will compete with Outlook Express and Eudora.
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Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new paid inclusion program.
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Internet media company Yahoo Inc   said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features,  large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its  instant messaging service.
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NEW YORK Yahoo appears to be moving a step closer to challenging Google after making a purchase of a start-up company that has developed a promising e-mail application.
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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.
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SUNNYVALE, California  - Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O is   set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's   most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the   Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a   company's products for it.
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Internet media company Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it is adding media-playing features, large file transfers, new languages and other tools to its instant messaging service.