Yahoo! Mail Announces PhotoMail Beta, Providing an Easier Way to Share Photos by E-mail; Additional Yahoo! Mail Updates Include Availability of More Languages, Integrated Top News Feed, and DomainKeys Indicator.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc., (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) today announced the beta release See beta version. of an innovative e-mail photo sharing Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images. feature called PhotoMail, available for free from 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. (http://mail.yahoo.com), a global leader in e-mail and the No. 1 e-mail service See Internet e-mail service. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . PhotoMail greatly simplifies the e-mail photo sharing experience by allowing people to insert up to 300 photos into the body of an e-mail, minimizing the worry of exceeding message or attachment size limits. The new PhotoMail feature tightly integrates Yahoo! Mail with both Yahoo! Photos Yahoo! Photos was a photo sharing service of Yahoo!, designed specifically for Yahoo! users. The service had unlimited storage for photos, but it was required that photos have the jpeg/jpg extension. and Yahoo! Image Search. Yahoo! Mail is also adding six additional languages and new localized sites to make the service available in more languages than any other Web-based e-mail See Internet e-mail service and HTML e-mail. provider, a new customizable "In the News" feature to the welcome page for its U.S. users, and an extension to its DomainKeys e-mail authentication The verification that an e-mail message has been sent by the domain name in the From field. Called "domain spoofing," spammers falsify the From address in their messages in order not to be identified. technology to increase consumer protection from spam, e-mail forgery See e-mail spoofing. , and phishing scams. The PhotoMail feature allows the sender to drag-and-drop images from anywhere on their computer, Yahoo! Photos, or even the Web and insert them as smaller 'thumbnail' previews into a Yahoo! Mail message. PhotoMail messages can be personalized by adding captions and borders to the pictures, and the size and quality of the pictures can be easily adjusted. Through integration with Yahoo! Photos, the No. 1 online photos site in the world, PhotoMail users receive free and unlimited photo storage. People can also insert images from Yahoo! Image Search, the largest index of images on the Web, with more than 1.5 billion images. PhotoMail is another example of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide a truly integrated communications experience where people can communicate with the people in their lives however and whenever they want. Highlights of PhotoMail include: --Share more photos by e-mail: People can insert up to 300 photos into a single PhotoMail e-mail message minimizing the old worry of exceeding message or attachment size limits. With PhotoMail, people can easily e-mail pictures from any folder on their computer, any of their online Yahoo! Photos albums, or from anywhere on the Web via Yahoo! Image Search. The full resolution versions of the photos can be easily viewed by recipients of the PhotoMail message, by simply clicking on the thumbnails. --Unlimited, free photos storage: When sending a PhotoMail, the full size versions of the images from the consumer's computer and other albums on Yahoo! Photos are automatically saved in a new album in the sender's Yahoo! Photos account, providing additional options for printing, sharing, and advanced photo editing See photo editor. . If the sender doesn't already have a Yahoo! Photos account, one is automatically created for them when they send their first PhotoMail message. --Photos and messages can be customized: People can easily personalize the PhotoMail messages they send by adding borders and captions, rotating pictures, and adjusting the size of their images. --Easy for friends to view and enjoy: Sharing photos is easier with PhotoMail because there's no need to download and open separate attachments; the photos appear directly in the recipient's e-mail message. Friends can view a slideshow, print photos at home, order prints, save to their own Yahoo! Photos account, or save the full size versions to their computer, right from the sender's album on Yahoo! Photos. PhotoMail messages are supported by virtually all popular e-mail programs, so they can be sent to anyone at work, school, or home. More New Languages and Features: Following the company's commitment to continually enhance the e-mail experience based on user feedback, Yahoo! Mail also announced: --Even more languages -- Beginning in June, Yahoo! Mail will be available in more languages than any other Web-based e-mail provider. As part of Yahoo!'s commitment to reaching more users in more countries, Yahoo! Mail has added a total of six additional languages and seven new localized sites in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. : Poland, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, and Indonesia. With this expansion, Yahoo! Mail will be available on 34 localized sites worldwide and offered in 21 languages. --Check the news while checking e-mail -- Yahoo! Mail has added a customizable "In the News" feature to the welcome page for its U.S. users, with plans of making this feature available in numerous additional markets worldwide. Up-to-the-minute information is provided from six different Yahoo! News Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news. categories, making it easier for people to check the headlines when they check their personal e-mail. With this release, available categories include: Top Headlines, Entertainment, Business, Sports, Technology, and World news. The content is dynamically updated and delivered via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. technology. --Fighting e-mail forgery and the phishing scams -- As part of Yahoo! Mail's ongoing goal to provide users with the safest Webmail experience possible, DomainKeys e-mail authentication technology has been implemented to increase consumer protection from spam, e-mail forgery, and phishing scams. Effective now, Yahoo! Mail has added a tag under the "From" line of e-mail messages based on DomainKeys technology, providing additional information to consumers about the origin of e-mails they receive. The DomainKeys Indicator confirms whether or not the e-mail really does, in fact, come from the expected domain listed in the "From" line. More information on DomainKeys is available at http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys. "Our users have told us that sharing photos by e-mail is an essential part of their online experience and that, up until now, the process has been much too complex. With PhotoMail, we're taking away all the complexity of dealing with large e-mail attachments and making it easier than ever to share images with Yahoo! Mail," said Andy Spillane, vice president of Yahoo! Mail. Consumers can enjoy the PhotoMail beta by visiting http://photomail.mail.yahoo.com. About Yahoo! Mail Launched in October 1997, Yahoo! Mail is one of the Web's largest, most popular free e-mail See Internet e-mail service. providers. Yahoo! Mail helps people stay in touch at home, at work, or while traveling for business or pleasure. Yahoo! Mail is fully integrated with Yahoo!'s many other popular services to make it easy to access all the Internet services people need. 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. Yahoo! Photos is the No. 1 online photos site in the world, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. comScore Media Metrix. |
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