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Yahoo! wants to simplify and enhance your web experience

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yahoo.pngYahoo! has announced its intentions to simplify and enhance users’ Internet experiences, and has launched a global brand campaign to try to achieve that.

Launching next Monday (September 28) in the US and then in subsequent months across the UK, India, France, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, and Taiwan, Yahoo! wants to stick itself at the centre of people’s online lives. [Read more…]

Yahoo! enhances webmail service, integrates third party service support

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Yahoo! has announced some upgrades to its webmail system that it claims will make the service more useful.

Highlights include:

  • easier sharing of photo attachments, up to 25MB in total size, simply by dragging and dropping from the desktop
  • Emails from known contacts appear at the top of lists
  • Facebook/Twitteresque status updates plus photo and video sharing in the “What’s New?” section
  • A “gallery of innovative applications” that enhances inbox functionality by integrating third-party apps such as ZumoDrive and Flickr.

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Gmail trounces AOL to take #3 web mail position

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google-mail-logoThe latest not-really-that-important web statistics show that Google’s GMail web mail service is now the third largest in the US.

What’s more surprising is that it had to overtake AOL to get there.

AOL? Why do so many people still use AOL?

The top two webmail providers are Hotmail, with 47m unique users, and Yahoo! Mail, with a whopping 106m. [Read more…]