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Friday, November 10, 2006
Yahoo! combines voice, e-mail and IM
Yahoo! Messenger will support voice, e-mail and IM, simplifying the use of the different communication methods.
This has nothing directly to do with mobile, but shows something that could make mobile communication a lot easier in the future, as you could potentially stay in the same application the whole time, whatever communication method is used, potentially switching between modes during a conversation.
Google already offers this in Gmail, but the note indicates Yahoo! Mail has 10 times more users than Gmail, so the impact will be bigger.
The only real remaining headache is that the different solutions are not compatible with each other. Sure, you can e-mail between Google, Yahoo! etc, as they can all send and receive e-mails as per Internet protocols, but that's still not the case for IM and VoIP, even though attempts are made to "gateway" between the different services. There are settled Internet standards for IM and VoIP, but few services use them in an interoperable way as of now. Skype is the service that's farthest from achieving interop with other services, but attempts are made also there.
Yahoo to offer instant messaging inside e-mail - Yahoo! News
This has nothing directly to do with mobile, but shows something that could make mobile communication a lot easier in the future, as you could potentially stay in the same application the whole time, whatever communication method is used, potentially switching between modes during a conversation.
Google already offers this in Gmail, but the note indicates Yahoo! Mail has 10 times more users than Gmail, so the impact will be bigger.
The only real remaining headache is that the different solutions are not compatible with each other. Sure, you can e-mail between Google, Yahoo! etc, as they can all send and receive e-mails as per Internet protocols, but that's still not the case for IM and VoIP, even though attempts are made to "gateway" between the different services. There are settled Internet standards for IM and VoIP, but few services use them in an interoperable way as of now. Skype is the service that's farthest from achieving interop with other services, but attempts are made also there.
Yahoo to offer instant messaging inside e-mail - Yahoo! News
