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  • Yahoo IM used to spread phishing scam

    Yahoo Instant Messenger has been used to spread a phishing scam designed to steal username and password information from users. The scam is then spread through the user's contacts list.

  • Yahoo soups up IM for businesses

    Yahoo will announce on Wednesday in the United States an agreement to add WebEx online collaboration features into its enterprise instant messaging software, the Web portal's latest effort to sell its IM product to businesses.

  • Microsoft, Yahoo connect IM services

    Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Yahoo and Microsoft have done it.

  • Yahoo scraps enterprise IM

    Yahoo confirmed on Thursday that it is no longer selling a version of its popular instant-messaging service for corporations, ending the Web portal's attempt to sell IM as a software package.

  • New Yahoo IM cranks up videoconferencing

    The new Yahoo Messenger will allow you to transmit Webcam video at 20 frames per second, just shy of movie industry standards, in the Web portal's latest effort to distinguish itself from rivals.

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  • Emoticon designer a Tropfest finalist

    Tropfest Best Comedy winner Jayce White's other claim to fame is creating the emoticons for Yahoo Messenger. We talk to him about the design process, upcoming smileys and his favourite emoticon.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Keep watching the skies -- for RIM and Google?

    Previously, much of the business model for the in-flight connectivity market has remained up in the air -- but that could all be about to change thanks to RIM and pals.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Google's green data plans a hypocrisy?

    Google's plans for greener datacentres are being promoted with great fervour, but its calls for greater environmental accountability have some definite limitations.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    My Channel Ten manifesto

    Hey Channel Ten, I'm sorry I slagged you off last year. So your Web site is pretty cruddy, Yasmin turned out to be the queen of the harpies, and Matthew Newton brought shame to you over the new year. We all make mistakes. But before your site relaunches, might I be so bold as to make some suggestions for what to include?

  • How Seven blew the internet Olympics

    If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.

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  • Yahoo issues IM, security patches

    Yahoo has issued security patches for its Yahoo Instant Messenger and Yahoo Chat clients in an effort to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in the software.

  • Seven turns to Blue for secure Yahoo Messenger

    Seven Network has increased visibility of instant messaging (IM) and closed potential IM-related security holes after a corporate directive forced the IT team to develop a more disciplined approach to managing the largely unregulated technology.

  • First Take: Yahoo Messenger 7.0 (beta)

    Yahoo's next IM app lets you make free voice calls and leave voicemail, and it adds search and antispam tools.

  • Analysis: Enterprise IM a tough sell

    Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks.

  • Does IM stand for insecure messaging?

    Malicious attacks now come cloaked in messages that appear to have been sent by a known instant messaging contact -- even more reason to be wary.

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  • Emoticon designer a Tropfest finalist

    Tropfest Best Comedy winner Jayce White's other claim to fame is creating the emoticons for Yahoo Messenger. We talk to him about the design process, upcoming smileys and his favourite emoticon.

Reviews (66)

  • Yahoo soups up IM for businesses

    The Web portal is set to announce an agreement to add WebEx online collaboration features into its enterprise instant messaging software.

  • Yahoo pushes enterprise IM

    The Web portal begins a campaign targeting IT managers who have banned its product at work.

  • First Take: Yahoo Messenger with Voice

    Free voice calls and voicemail, built-in Web searches, and drag-and-drop photo sharing make Yahoo's new instant messenger a fun, powerful IM tool.

  • First Take: Yahoo Messenger 7.0 (beta)

    Yahoo's next IM app lets you make free voice calls and leave voicemail, and it adds search and antispam tools.

  • Yahoo Messenger 6.0

    Yahoo Messenger, along with ICQ, offers the most options for customisation and everyday use at home or in the office.

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