Yahoo! launches Hindi Mail & Web IM for Indian mkt

Along with launching the latest version of its messenger service – Yahoo Messenger 9 Beta, Yahoo Inc has now added six new Asian languages to the service.

While the move enables the users to watch inline video, it has, at the same time, brought 25 international languages under the purview of its messaging services. Now the messenger can be set to support local languages from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Vietnam.

The search engine’s Messenger 9.0 includes an "in-line player" that allows users to send URLs to each other and then watch video and turn over photographs together, while communicating over IM or an Internet phone connection! The new Yahoo Messenger 9 functions on both Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems.

The interface of the version too is friendship-enhancing. Besides these facilities, the "friends list" on the new Yahoo Messenger version has also been created to provide more space making it simpler to see a contact's photo and status as well as to connect with each other through instant messages, voice over IP or text messaging to a mobile phone.

The improved version also provides call forwarding facilities enabling users to send Internet telephony calls to the Messenger to a mobile phone or landline as a voice mail. To top it all, users can henceforth send unrestricted of attachments with file size limits of up to 2 GB. Also, photograph sets from Yahoo's Flickr picture service can be shared in real time.

It is also compatible with YouTube. The new messenger also has an automatic anti-virus scanning protecting it from the threats of virus writers and hackers!Launching the new version, Yahoo Messenger Vice-President Sabrina Ellis said that the company has spiced up Yahoo Messenger to help and keeping in touch with friends and family more fun than before. It may be mentioned here that the company claims to have Yahoo Messenger has 94.3 million users worldwide.

By shamsheer (MC)