Yahoo! Messenger Announces Free, High-Quality Worldwide
Calling
New Version Also Includes Interactive Photo Sharing, Tools to
Expand Online Communities and Enhanced Spam Protection
Sunnyvale, CA -- May 18, 2005 -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News),
a leading global Internet company, today announced a public beta
for the next generation version of its popular Yahoo! Messenger
(http://messenger.yahoo.com) service. The new Yahoo! Messenger will
allow people to enhance their shared experiences with friends and
family around the world with free PC-to-PC calls, a leading-edge
photo sharing experience, easy tools to expand their friends' lists
and Yahoo! 360 community, increased spam protection and much more.
With the introduction of these new features and services, Yahoo!
Messenger is taking instant messaging (IM) to the next level by
providing an all-encompassing, integrated communications
experience.
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Yahoo! Messenger continues to lead the marketplace by bringing
together the most relevant features into one comprehensive IM suite
and providing the greatest choice for consumers to stay connected
to one another. The next generation of Yahoo! Messenger gives
people easy and more personal ways to share experiences than ever
before. New enhancements to the service include:
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Thinkpad * Free Worldwide Calling and Voicemail*: Yahoo! Messenger has
enhanced its already popular voice service to allow consumers to
far more easily call anywhere in the world for free through
high-quality, PC-to-PC calling. Making calls over the Internet
gives people more to talk about by being able to connect with
friends and family while
viewing photos, playing games,
searching the Web and so much more. People just need an Internet
connection and a headset or a microphone and speakers.
Additionally, for the first time, voicemail messages can be left
for friends who are away from their desks or offline, and can be
easily retrieved through a call history log that displays all
voicemail messages, as well as in-bound and out-bound calls. To
further personalize the PC-to-PC calling experience, people can
customize ring tones for their friends.
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Microsoft * Photo Sharing: Through an easy drag-and-drop photo sharing
feature, experiences are brought to life within a mutual,
interactive photo sharing
environment. Like sharing photos
in-person, consumers can communicate and point to aspects of
pictures while viewing photos together.
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Laptop Computers * Tools to Expand and Foster Communities: A new set of tools has
been introduced to let people effortlessly find, add to and share
their friends' lists. Additionally, through deep integration with
Yahoo! 360, a community product that helps people keep connected
and share content, people can invite Yahoo! Messenger friends to
their growing Yahoo! 360 community. Also, those connected on Yahoo!
360 will now see new content indicators next to their friends' IDs
which give people instantaneous insight when new content -- such as
blog postings, photos, lists or profile data -- is updated.
Integration with Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Yahoo!'s
music subscription service, allows
people to browse and listen to friends' collections of
music and playlists via Yahoo!
Messenger.
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Laptop Computer * Enhanced Spam Protection: For the first time, Yahoo!'s widely
recognized and highly-effective proprietary spam filtering
technology, SpamGuard, will further bolster protection for Yahoo!
Messenger users. With this new security feature, consumers will be
able to report spam or unsolicited IM messages to Yahoo!, which
will in turn help improve SpamGuard. Yahoo! Messenger will now be
safer than ever, as SpamGuard further limits the number of
potentially harmful instant messages sent by spammers.
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Desktop Computer * Contact Cards: Consumers can choose how they want to connect
with others -- whether it's through text messaging, e-mail, mobile
text messaging, or PC-to-PC calling -- right from their friends'
list with one click. Additionally, people have one click access to
their friends' personalized Yahoo! 360 content right from the
contact card.
Notebooks * Compelling Search Tools: A prominent search field appears
right in the conversation window to easily retrieve relevant Web
search information from Yahoo! Search. Additionally, people can
save URLs directly from the conversation window to their personal
My Web page, a "personal search engine" that enables people to
create their own personal online archive by saving their favorite
pages, search results and search history.
Lenovo * Drag and Drop File Transfer: With improved file transfer
feature, people can easily drag and drop multiple files at once,
and thumbnails will appear to specify which kind of document is
being transferred (e.g. Word, Excel, photo, etc.).
Hard Drive * Easy Access Archiving: To ensure that people can easily access
their previous IM text conversations, Yahoo! Messenger will give
people the option to access previous interactions right in the
conversation window.
Travelstar * Customized Content: To stay on top of the latest in pop
culture, most popular searches and entertainment news, people can
choose to display the Yahoo! Buzz Index and Entertainment Tonight
content tabs in their IM window. Additionally, people can create a
Yahoo! 360 blast -- a quick thought to share with their circle of
friends -- with the new Yahoo! 360 content tab. The new content
tabs join the existing suite of customizable content including the
Calendar, Games, LAUNCHcast Internet radio, News, Sports, Stocks
and Weather tabs.
Gateway "We are committed to providing a world-class IM experience for
consumers, and we will continue to enhance and extend voice
services as a core component of Yahoo! Messenger," stated Brad
Garlinghouse, vice president, Communications Products, Yahoo! Inc.
"Talking to your computer no longer means you are crazy, it means
you are smart, because you are taking advantage of innovative
technology and a unique combination of features that only Yahoo!
Messenger offers."
Laptop Parts The next generation of Yahoo! Messenger is launching
simultaneously in 18 localized versions around the world including:
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong,
India, Italy, Germany, Korea, Mexico, Spain, South Asia, Taiwan,
United Kingdom, United States and Yahoo! en Espanol.
Software * - For use in limited countries.
Hard Drives About Yahoo! Messenger
As one of the most popular instant messaging services on the
Internet, Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) makes it
easier than ever for people to express themselves, interact and
manage relationships with friends and family. Yahoo! Messenger has
a unique and proven history of innovation in instant messaging as
the first to offer Webcam functionality, the first to introduce an
interactive and shared experience with IMVironments, and the first
to introduce animated emoticons. Yahoo! Messenger is fully
integrated with Yahoo!'s other leading services and provides the
premier vehicle for flexible, meaningful
interactions between friends and family.
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Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products
and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the
No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet
destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!'s
global network includes 25 world properties and is available in 13
languages.
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