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HOT NEWS! Yahoo! Mail now offers free text messaging to mobile phone numbers
The new version of Yahoo! Mail now includes some intuitive communication features that make it a little easier for contacts to stay in touch. The first is the ability to send instant messages from Yahoo! Mail to mobile phone numbers. Mail users can now choose to send IM's to mobile numbers in the US, Canada, India and the Philippines without leaving Yahoo!'s web mail interface. Users simply enter a mobile phone number, type a message and send it.
The second Mail integration is the ability to send instant messaging straight from Yahoo! Mail to Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger users. This opens up chatting to millions of other IM users, straight from the Yahoo! Mail interface possible. These new features make it easier to connect with friends by converting emails to instant messages to text messages.
Yahoo! Mail IM and mobile feature enhancements will begin rolling out to users worldwide today. And if you are into adding a few new colors to the interface to spice things up, there are six customizable color themes available.
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J.D. said 11:13PM on 8-26-2007
That is so very cool! Very helpful in many situations.
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phizm said 5:49AM on 8-27-2007
I wonder how long it'll be till till the SMS function is removed due to mobile spam...?
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Bryan Price said 6:47AM on 8-27-2007
It's not doing anything at all for me.
#2, AIM has had SMS for quite some time. It's still there.
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yakine said 9:45AM on 8-27-2007
ak,
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Stacia said 2:05PM on 8-27-2007
I've been sending text messages to phone numbers for a long time with Gmail.
I'd maybe use Yahoo mail to IM if it didn't have a memory link or crash Firefox fairly consistently.
Yahoo - I love ya, but you gotta fix what's there before adding features.
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Pistol said 1:10PM on 8-27-2007
Check out www.meemo.com. I think it might be quite useful.
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Raluca said 6:14PM on 8-27-2007
And here it is the video:
http://pcnews.tv/598/yahoo-unveils-new-mail-with-text-messaging/
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Mike said 9:20PM on 8-27-2007
Ok, so here's a question - can you email an SMS through Yahoo mail on your iPhone? If you can, why would you ever send another SMS through AT&T?
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Stacey said 2:40PM on 8-28-2007
hi
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Cocoy said 12:59AM on 8-29-2007
Help please. I've created a Yahoo Mail account but there is no such feature. Thank you in advance.
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James said 6:39PM on 8-30-2007
Hey Mike, I heard that this release adds support for Safari. If the iPhone can now handle the new Y!Mail, you won't ever need to pay for SMS w/ it. It would take time to get to the mail page, though.
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moranbri said 4:43PM on 9-07-2007
So, 'Yahoo! Mail IM and mobile feature enhancements will begin rolling out to users worldwide today.' That was 2 weeks ago. Still hasn't rolled out to me, when will it?
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ambien_69 said 7:06PM on 9-11-2007
baby when r u gon' be home? u CAN reply too dis'!!
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chris said 3:38PM on 9-20-2007
thanks
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bhawna said 7:31AM on 10-06-2007
hello how r u
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peng said 12:34PM on 10-11-2007
I've been reading the procedures on how to convert the beta into the new yahoo mail but it seems that nothing happens... Can someone tell me how to do that? I really want to try it...
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sheiki said 1:09AM on 11-12-2007
its nice thing 2 help out pplz
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angelg1028 said 8:35PM on 11-13-2007
hey whats up
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