RSSNew Yahoo Mail Leaves Beta, Adds SMS
By the Betanews Staff | Published August 27, 2007, 11:44 AM
Yahoo on Monday dropped the beta tag from its revamped webmail service, just a few months after Microsoft began rolling out its new Windows Live Hotmail. Like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail's upgrade offers a new desktop application-like interface using AJAX, but customers can choose to keep the "Classic" look.
Along with unlimited storage, new features in Yahoo Mail include an integrated RSS reader and instant messaging, along with built-in SMS text messaging support. Yahoo is targeting this feature at parents, who can quickly type a message on their computer and send it to their child's cell phone. Another addition in the final release is shortcut links, which appear in an e-mail to link to useful information like maps and calendars. The new Yahoo Mail is available to users in the United States, Canada, India and the Philippines.
I'm surprised at the fact that no one has commented on how slow the interface is. It takes ages for changes no matter the time of day.
This is one time when MS is better - Hotmail is much, much faster - when it isn't too busy.
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Mine pops right up. I am not running the latest or greatest of systems, but I have a feelng you have Spyware / Malware.
Check all your Plugins and see why.
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It still says BETA on my mailbox. I also don't have the option to send text messages.
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It is still lousy.
Email home page is full of news.
Yahoo: Take off the irritating news features and just show us email and nothing but email features.
Another irritating feature that stupid Yahoo has not fixed, even though I wrote them many times, it is this:
You still have NOT added a button to add my signature manually when composing new email.
Yahoo Beta Mail is not ready yet.
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Hey "johnusa"
A lot of what you are complaining about is under "Options". The news / headlines that it show is all up to you, you just have to designate what you want to see.
Also, the Signature option, you are half right. Again under "Options" there is a place to compose a static Signature, but it would be nice to have multiple ones and a button that perhaps had a dropdown to show / insert other Signatures.
And they say they are out of BETA, yet when I log in, still says / shows BETA!
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It still sux. Beside the login page, everything still unsecured.
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None of the major webmail providers use SSL on their sites beyond the login page. The amount of overhead SSL creates is very high, and isn't necessary for a free webmail account.
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Gmail is. I mean, on default it doesn't, but it can make secured.
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It's Webmail, everything is as Secure as the network (ISP) YOU are on.
My House has a lock on it, but if "I" don't lock it, it does no good.
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I will say that this is an awesome display of AJAX functionality. I've had more problems with it in the past few months though. Mine still says "beta"...
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when will there be safari support?!
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