Zuthus Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 (CNN) -- Yahoo is rolling out an upgraded version of its e-mail service to its 284 million users. The revamped service, which will become available to users in the coming weeks, will be twice as fast as previous versions and integrate more seamlessly with social networks, Yahoo said in a blog post Monday. "This latest version of Yahoo! Mail is faster, safer, easier to use, and offers a seamless experience across PC, mobile and tablet devices," said David McDowell, a director of product management for the company. Users of the new service will be able to respond instantly to messages from Facebook from their inbox while sharing notifications from Twitter, Facebook and Zynga via a new Updates tab. Yahoo also is promising unlimited storage that would let users archive an infinite number of documents, photos and videos. By contrast, Google's Gmail service offers 7.5GB of free storage space, while Microsoft's free Hotmail service includes 5GB of storage. Yahoo will prioritize messages and contacts by surfacing users' most-frequent correspondents first. Users also will be capable of sending large attachments of up to 100 megabytes without having to compress them. Yahoo also said its spam filters and a new anti-phishing platform have reduced spam reports by 60%. The new service, which started beta testing in October, will be available in 26 languages. Yahoo offers the world's second-most popular Web-based e-mail service behind Microsoft's Hotmail, although both have been losing ground in recent years to Gmail. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/05/24/yahoo.email/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators daredevil Posted May 24, 2011 Administrators Share Posted May 24, 2011 I personally like the update. Been using it for a while. http://fearless-assassins.com/topic/17990-new-yahoo-mail-beta/ Much nicer interface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuthus Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 I haven't tried it yet. Will do. Thanks for your comment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargwire Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Just tried it this morning, looks really good, didn't have much time to really check it out though. Time will tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckun Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Yahoo mail is evil. Will never ever trust it. Don't know anyone who hasn't had their mail hijacked to send spam to their whole address book when using yahoo mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuthus Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 Yahoo mail is evil. Will never ever trust it. Don't know anyone who hasn't had their mail hijacked to send spam to their whole address book when using yahoo mail. I don't trust the whole internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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