All-New Yahoo! Messenger Offers Exclusive Features, Deeper Integration With Games, Music and Search; Only Service to Offer Customized Radio, Avatars, Audibles.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Photo Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4624531 SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2004 Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), a leading global Internet company, today announced the newest public beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of its popular Yahoo!(R) Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) service. Leading the instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or industry in time spent per user(1), Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo!'s instant messaging (IM) service, which includes text messaging, voice calling and file sharing. The IM client includes Internet radio and the regular phone calling at rates as low as one cent per minute. Starting with Version 8. continues to drive innovation in the instant messaging marketplace by introducing unique features and deeper integration with Yahoo! services including LAUNCHcast, Yahoo! Games Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. , Yahoo! AddressBook, and Yahoo! Search This article is about the Yahoo! Search Engine. For the corporation, see Yahoo! ; for other uses see Yahoo! (disambiguation). The search engine Introduction Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo!, Inc. . Yahoo! Messenger is the only major instant messaging service to provide consumers with access to pre-programmed or customized radio stations available directly in their instant messaging application, enabling an advanced music connection experience among friends through LAUNCHcast, a leading Internet radio Listening to audio broadcasts via the Internet. There are more than 4,000 broadcasts available on the Internet that can be streamed and played by a software media player in the computer or in a stand-alone Internet radio with the software built in. music service. It is also the first major instant messaging service to offer U.S. consumers Avatars, graphical and customizable characters that represent people; and Audibles, expressive, verbal animations. In addition, Yahoo! Messenger improves people's ability to get the best of to gain an advantage over, whether fairly or unfairly. - Milton. See also: Best what they want from other popular Yahoo! services. Integrating services such as Yahoo! Games, makes it easy for fans to play two-person games including Chess, Checkers, Dominoes and Word Racer Word Racer is a game developed by Yahoo! in 1999 for use on its Yahoo! Games page. The game play is similar to Boggle with some notable exceptions, especially the scoring and game board configurations. , directly in the instant messaging window. Deeper integration with Yahoo! Search through new search shortcuts See Win Shortcuts. makes sharing results with friends easier than ever. New features like enhanced access to contacts including e-mail and mobile information through Yahoo! AddressBook and the ability to be seen by certain friends of choice through the Stealth mode Taking place in secret. It often refers to the position that startup companies take when developing a product they feel will be very competitive in the marketplace. They swear everyone to secrecy and keep a very low profile until they are ready to launch. feature, provide an easy, efficient and fun way for people to manage relationships and communicate in real time. "With this newest version of Yahoo! Messenger, we are changing the instant messaging landscape by introducing new ways for people to express, share, and manage, making instant messaging more essential to their lives," said Lisa Pollock Mann, senior director of messaging products at Yahoo!. "By integrating unique features with compelling services from across our network, Yahoo! Messenger continues to enable powerful interactions between friends and family." Yahoo! Messenger New Features With this newest version of Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! is building upon its proven history of innovation in instant messaging. The All-New Yahoo! Messenger, available for free, includes the following new features: LAUNCHcast: Yahoo! Messenger consumers can listen to customized or pre-programmed radio stations directly from their Yahoo! Messenger application, which is now fully integrated with LAUNCHcast, a leading Internet radio music service. In addition, consumers can choose to display the current song title playing in their LAUNCHcast station as part of their status message. This allows others to tune in with them by joining their station and discovering new music. Yahoo! Avatars Yahoo! Avatars is a public Yahoo!, Inc. service to display personalized character images, called "avatars." Yahoo! Avatars are personality images, available for websites HTML display, in profiles (Yahoo! 360°) and in Yahoo! Messenger chat. : Yahoo! Messenger is the first major instant messaging service to offer U.S. consumers the ability to choose a truly animated, graphical and customizable character representation of themselves. Avatars convey moods and react to emoticons through expressions, and can be personalized with clothing and accessories to further enhance users' self-expression. People can choose to represent themselves by using a Yahoo! Avatar or any picture as their display image. If they choose to use a picture, they can select a picture from a personal file or they can select from a gallery of pictures available from Yahoo!. Yahoo! Audibles: People can send these expressive verbal animations directly from the instant messaging application, and can use Audibles to flirt, taunt, say hello, or express attitude. They can choose from various categories including Greetings, Games and Fun. There are 24 Yahoo! Audibles to choose from. New Yahoo! Emoticons: This edition of Yahoo! Messenger includes 13 new emoticons in the menu such as "Rolling on the Floor Laughing" and "Sigh." New IMVironments(TM): New instant messaging themed backgrounds that appear directly in the IM window include Baseball sponsored by GMC GMC See: Guaranteed Mortgage Certificate , Home on the Range, Mountain Dew mountain dew n. Illegally distilled corn liquor. , got Milk? T-Mac and got Milk? Fefe Dobson. Yahoo! Games: Friends can now play two-player games -- including Chess, Checkers, Dominoes, Pearl Hunter and Word Racer directly from the instant messaging window. With the new games tab, consumers can see how they stack up against their friends by comparing their high scores for single-player games including Bounce Out Verb 1. bounce out - bounce a ball so that it becomes an out baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball , Pop and Drop, Collapse and Text Twist. Yahoo! Search: People now have easier access to search the Web via a query box integrated directly into the instant messaging application. Yahoo! Messenger consumers can also type search shortcuts directly into their conversations and share results instantaneously with friends. Stealth Mode: In addition to being able to sign in as Invisible, consumers can now appear online or offline to specific friends or groups, making it easier to manage personal interactions. Yahoo! AddressBook: People can now easily find, manage, and communicate with their Yahoo! AddressBook contacts directly from Yahoo! Messenger. As a launching pad to Yahoo! Mail A free, Web-based e-mail service from Yahoo!. It includes Yahoo! Messenger, which alerts you if you have mail and also provides voice chat. See Yahoo! Messenger. , the No. 1 Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. service, people can send e-mail directly from their Yahoo! Messenger friend's list and from within the instant messaging application. In addition, people contacting their friends through the mobile messaging feature now have easy access to wireless phone numbers with the enhanced AddressBook tab. About Yahoo! Messenger As one of the most popular instant messaging services on the Internet, Yahoo! Messenger 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(TM), 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. About Yahoo! 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. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. (1) Yahoo! Messenger has the highest average time spent with 57 minutes per day per user, more than twice MSN Messenger and 23 percent higher than AIM. comScore Media Metrix, January 2004 MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4624531 |
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