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07-12-2004, 02:50 PM
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2428/040712yahoooddpost/
Yahoo buys Oddpost e-mail company
James Niccolai, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau
Yahoo Inc. has acquired Oddpost Inc., a San Francisco startup that provides an innovative, Web-based e-mail service, and plans to use its technology to spruce up Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services, the companies confirmed Friday.
Like other Web-based e-mail, Oddpost uses a standard Web browser, but its interface functions more like that of a desktop program such as Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook. For example, users can organize or delete messages by dragging them into folders instead of having to reload a Web page each time. Oddpost says this makes it quicker to use. Its users pay US$30 per year for the service, which can also be used to aggregate content from news sites and Web logs.
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http://www.btplc.com/News/Pressreleasesandarticles/Corporatenewsreleases/2004/nr0461.htm
with the launch of a mass market voice over the internet product - BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger. This new product from BT and Yahoo!. will, for the first time, allow consumers to manage all their home communications - phone calls, webcam, emails, texts and instant messaging - together in one place on their PC, with multi way video calls expected to be added in 2005.
BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger is an integrated software package, downloadable for free over the internet. It combines voice services over the web with Yahoo!'s instant messaging to give consumers a truly converged multi-media communications experience.
BT is the first telco in the world to join forces with a major internet company like Yahoo! to offer this type of service on this scale - making it available to over 19 million* consumers in the UK who have a BT line
Next year the two companies will add a video capability to the service
two parties will see each other as they speak
Yahoo buys Oddpost e-mail company
James Niccolai, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau
Yahoo Inc. has acquired Oddpost Inc., a San Francisco startup that provides an innovative, Web-based e-mail service, and plans to use its technology to spruce up Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services, the companies confirmed Friday.
Like other Web-based e-mail, Oddpost uses a standard Web browser, but its interface functions more like that of a desktop program such as Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook. For example, users can organize or delete messages by dragging them into folders instead of having to reload a Web page each time. Oddpost says this makes it quicker to use. Its users pay US$30 per year for the service, which can also be used to aggregate content from news sites and Web logs.
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http://www.btplc.com/News/Pressreleasesandarticles/Corporatenewsreleases/2004/nr0461.htm
with the launch of a mass market voice over the internet product - BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger. This new product from BT and Yahoo!. will, for the first time, allow consumers to manage all their home communications - phone calls, webcam, emails, texts and instant messaging - together in one place on their PC, with multi way video calls expected to be added in 2005.
BT Communicator with Yahoo! Messenger is an integrated software package, downloadable for free over the internet. It combines voice services over the web with Yahoo!'s instant messaging to give consumers a truly converged multi-media communications experience.
BT is the first telco in the world to join forces with a major internet company like Yahoo! to offer this type of service on this scale - making it available to over 19 million* consumers in the UK who have a BT line
Next year the two companies will add a video capability to the service
two parties will see each other as they speak