Andre Yoskowitz
29 Oct 2010 1:04
For the first time since 2005, Yahoo has redesigned its Yahoo Mail service, which currently has 280 million users.
The main update is the addition of social networking, meaning users can update their Twitter and Facebook statuses from within Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo says the revamped service will work twice as fast as Gmail and Live/Hotmail.
Additionally, texting and IMs have been updated, as well as the ability to view photos and videos from Flickr, Picasa and YouTube from within your inbox.
"People spend more than 30 billion minutes a month on Yahoo Mail," says Dave McDowell, Yahoo Mail senior product director. "It is a critically important product to our users and this represents [the] most significant upgrade to Yahoo mail in five years."
Yahoo has also added priority messages, the service Google added to Gmail a couple of months ago.