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People can opt-in to Yahoo! Mail Beta (to opt-in, go to http://in.features.mail.yahoo.com/), and easily navigate and organize their inbox, browse photos and videos, more efficiently search for emails and benefit from improved spam protection. Yahoo! Messenger Beta makes it fun and easy to share, connect, and play with friends and family – anywhere anytime. The new Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger give consumers an enriched and seamless online communications experience across all devices - desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
Commenting on the announcement Mr. Arun Tadanki, Managing Director, Yahoo! India said “Online communication tools are an important part of people’s lives—whether they’re connecting with their friends and family, sharing pictures and videos, or keeping up on news across various networks. With an increasing number of new Internet users in India using email or messenger as a primary mode of online communication on both PC and connected devices, a faster, more engaging and safer Yahoo! Mail Beta and Yahoo! Messenger Beta will significantly enhance their experience.
Yahoo! Messenger Beta offers:
· “Instant gaming” – play social games with friends- Yahoo! Messenger Beta not only offers instant message, text, and voice and video call, now you can also play some of the most popular social games with friends, starting with games from publishers like Zynga, Elex, and OMGPOP. You can also share your game activities and play-status so that your friends can join your game and you can join theirs.
· Manage all your social networks from one place- Now you can view, comment on and like real-time updates from Yahoo! Pulse, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter, all from right within Yahoo! Messenger Beta. You can post one status and share it across multiple social networks simultaneously - Yahoo! Pulse, Facebook, and Twitter. Now you can also stay connected with your Facebook friends as you can send or receive IMs from Facebook right within Yahoo! Messenger Beta.
· Stay connected anytime, anywhere- Now you can converse virtually anywhere – Start your IM conversations on your PC and continue them from your mobile phone or any Internet-enabled device. You can also retrieve recent IM conversations from any PC where you have signed in to Yahoo! Messenger and take the conversation across devices at the same time. Yahoo! Messenger offers a seamless, always connected experience across devices, whether on desktop, the Web, or mobile devices.
Yahoo! Mail Beta offers:
· Communicate faster and do more – Designed from the ground up to provide blazing fast performance, this new version will be at least twice as fast for most people around the world. Yahoo! Mail Beta also speeds up tools that allow people to be more productive with the time they have, by more easily finding messages from contacts or using third-party applications directly within the inbox.
· Stay connected to social networks – As a central destination for social experiences from across the Web, Yahoo! Mail Beta lets people view and share updates from Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, and beyond. Additional features include enhanced IM and SMS capabilities for seamless chatting and texting from within mail.
· Stay protected from spam – Independently verified as the world’s #1 email provider in protecting users from spam, Yahoo! Mail Beta uses Yahoo!'s global cloud computing infrastructure to further Yahoo!’s anti-spam efforts and provide an even safer mail experience.
· View photos and videos right from the inbox – Automatic slideshow features mean people can easily see photos and videos from sites like Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube from right within their email messages.
· Search through mail with ease – A new mail search tool leverages Yahoo!’s wealth of search science and technology to help people quickly find the right emails. New search refinement features allow users to easily navigate, sort, and narrow search results by sender, attachment file, date, or folder location.
During this Beta period, Yahoo! will continually update and add new features to Yahoo! Mail and Messenger Beta. All users can choose to switch between Yahoo! Mail/Messenger Beta and the current versions of Yahoo! Mail and Messenger. To get the new version, search on Yahoo.com for “Yahoo! Mail Beta” or visit http://in.features.mail.yahoo.com/ and for Yahoo! Messenger visit http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/beta/win
