Yahoo has just released the final version of its new instant messenger client Yahoo Messenger 10.0.0.1102. The latest version comes after a beta period of more than two months. The Yahoo dev team has been working on getting it to release quality and the final build comes with a lot of bug fixes and stability-related updates. Yahoo also noted that the latest version was fully compatible with the newly launched Windows 7. Yahoo Messenger 10 is the next evolutionary step for the IM client, borrowing more than a few things from the previous Yahoo Messenger 9, but also incorporating a couple of big new features. The most touted one is the one-on... [read more >>] Yahoo just revealed its massive marketing campaign last week, which will span across several countries and into the next year. It has a budget of over $100 and will have a presence in every medium, TV, radio, print outdoor and obviously online. Today the campaign is officially launched and we're 'treated' to the first TV ad, a 50-second clip on how wonderful Yahoo is because, you know, “it's Y!ou.” Past the shock and awe technique of the high production values and aspirational message though most users and people in the field aren't impressed with the effort. “Today we unveil our new global market... [read more >>] Yahoo has been taking a different approach from Google lately, when it comes to its Mail service. While Google has an army of engineers and does all of its development in house, with Gmail now boasting a big number of Labs features bringing all sorts of functionality, Yahoo has opened up to outside app developers and has been launching a stream of interesting applications for Yahoo Mail. Now, it's introducing another round of features enabling 100MB attachments and advanced invitation creation. “With the launch of the new and improved Yahoo! Mail a couple of weeks ago, we announced the upcoming addition of a set of apps to help... [read more >>] Yahoo's popular instant messenger client, aptly named Yahoo Messenger, is getting ready for a major update. With the turmoil surrounding the company's search business and the shift in focus towards content and more social features, the new Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta is in line with the Internet giant's new vision. Major new features include a greatly improved video chat and the social-oriented Yahoo Updates, which shows the status updates of users' friends inside the messenger window. Yahoo Messenger has had webcam support for quite a while but it was just an addition to the chat or the voice call conversation, something ... [read more >>] The Federal appeals court in New York issued a ruling on August 21, 2009 regarding an appeal filed by several music recoding companies against a previous ruling that gave Yahoo LAUNCHcast the right to play online music without paying licensing fees. The court classified LAUNCHcast as “not an interactive service;” thus, it could not be a subject to licensing fees.The court was comprised of three judges, and it issued a final ruling in a case that started over eight years ago, in 2001. At that time, LAUNCHcast was recently acquired by Yahoo, when several recording companies led by Sony Music and Arista Records filed a lawsuit for ... [read more >>] It's official, the two Internet giants have come to an agreement. After years of talks Microsoft and Yahoo managed to reach an understanding under which Bing will become the sole search provider for Yahoo. Most of the details previously speculated have been confirmed and the deal will most likely shape the Internet for the coming years. Yahoo has been trying to get out of the search business for a while now and new CEO Carol Bartz made it one of her priorities so it's no surprise she is pleased with the development. “This agreement comes with boatloads of value for Yahoo!, our users, and the industry, and I believe it esta... [read more >>] The fact that Yahoo is working on a new homepage design hasn't been news for almost a year now, as it was announced and previewed in September 2008. Since then a few users have been getting the revamped page as part of the testing phase before it was ready to roll out for the masses. And now, finally, the day has come when the new homepage design is officially released, in the US for the time being but coming to other countries around the world gradually. The first question that comes to mind is, is it any good? Well, it is better than the previous version, with a much cleaner design, less clutter and more customization options. The... [read more >>] Yahoo Messenger is one of the most widely used Instant Messaging clients in the world but with a large install base comes a large set of problems, one of them being that many users don't update to the latest version as soon as it is available so backwards compatibility and interoperability is a main concern. However, at some point users will have to be 'convinced' to upgrade and this is what Yahoo is doing as it has announced the 'retirement' of the old Yahoo Messenger versions 6.0 through 7.5. “As Yahoo! Messenger gets older so too do some of the “vintage” versions that are still in use by some u... [read more >>] We reported earlier that Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, was having a really successful launch, becoming the number two search engine in the US and easily going passed Yahoo. It now looks like the spike was very short lived and Bing has gone down to its previous levels, Yahoo having nothing to fear just yet. Bing hit its peak on June 4, gaining more than 15 percent of the US search market with Yahoo left with just 10 percent. Although most people were skeptical about the rise holding in the long run, while other reports showed a much more moderate increase, few believed that its popularity would be so short lived. In fact, by th... [read more >>] While just recently Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was all high and mighty about not needing Microsoft and how their search business was doing just fine on its own, new data from StatCounter should have her at least worried. According to the info Microsoft's new search engine Bing has just surpassed Yahoo to become the second largest in the United States. “It remains to be seen if Bing falls away after the initial novelty and promotion but at first sight it looks like Microsoft is on to a winner,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying that he wanted Microsoft to become the second bigge... [read more >>] | 
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