Yahoo on Monday began integrating its popular Web-based e-mail service with its instant messaging platform, a process that will take several months to complete. In doing so, Yahoo is hardly breaking ground. More than a year ago, Google unveiled Google Talk, an application that allows Gmail users to simultaneously chat with, and telephone, other Gmail users. Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger service is similarly merged with MSN Hotmail.
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Yahoo Folds Instant Messaging Into Its E-Mail Service
Posted by: Fred J. Aun February 13, 2007 11:44 AMYahoo on Monday began integrating its popular Web-based e-mail service with its instant messaging platform, a process that will take several months to complete. In doing so, Yahoo is hardly breaking ground. More than a year ago, Google unveiled Google Talk, an application that allows Gmail users to simultaneously chat with, and telephone, other Gmail users. Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger service is similarly merged with MSN Hotmail.