Yahoo! Mail Beta Version ready for Indians

On hearing a beep in your cellphone, you read the message from one of your friends or relatives, “I’m online”. The very next moment you log in your Yahoo! Messenger and start chatting with him or her for hours. You can do it from home or office or from a cyber café. An hour’s chat in a café costs around ten rupees. Yahoo! Messenger has been an undisputed leader for the last five years in India. Now, Yahoo! India launches Yahoo! Indichat plug-in, which enables users to chat in Hindi and Tamil without any need for a language keyboard. The user can just load the Side Panel plug-in and start chatting in Hindi and Tamil.

“We continuously innovate, make relevant and localize our communication products in our efforts to provide the best Web experience possible,” said George Zacharias, MD, Yahoo! India.

Yahoo! India also offers other plug-ins, which facilitate chat in other Indian languages like Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Malayalam. Also, a user with any language keyboard can chat on Yahoo! Messenger 8.0 in that language. He further informed VARIndia that the languages launched are based on the ease as compared to others. The service will be rolled out in other Indian languages very soon.

The plug-in feature will revolutionize user’s experience on Yahoo! Messenger 8.0 by enabling music, finance, games, answers and many more features in their messenger window. This takes Yahoo! Messenger beyond just a device for chatting, making it a daily essential service for net users. Users can download Indichat plug-in for Hindi and Tamil from’http://in.gallery.yahoo.com into their Yahoo! Messenger 8.0.

Another unique feature of Yahoo! India is the introduction of Indian language Audibles, which are available in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati and Punjabi. Audibles are an extremely popular fun feature of Yahoo! Messenger. Not only this, Yahoo! India also announced the launch of Yahoo! Mail beta for India, the next-generation Web 2.0 mail product from Yahoo!

George added that Yahoo! Mail beta includes a sleek, easy-to-use interface with the speed and responsiveness of a desktop application. The latest version also features innovative online calendar integration and provides a fast, efficient experience with enhanced functionality, such as drag and drop e-mail organization, message preview and an integrated RSS reader. Like the current Yahoo! Mail experience, the new version is a free, browser-based service, accessible from virtually any computer connected to the Internet, without the need for a software download.

The new Yahoo! Mail beta embodies Yahoo!’s proficiency in scaling innovative technology. Not only is the new version now available to all Yahoo! users, it also provides the most significant enhancement to the Yahoo! Mail interface and user’s experience since its launch in 1997.

In the end…

Yahoo! India, since its inception in June 2000, has established itself as the pioneering and leading Internet portal providing value-added services for Web users in India and users abroad with special interest in India. It presents a vast array of communications, commerce and content services that include Yahoo! Mail/ Messenger/ Chat, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Hot Jobs, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! India Search Marketing. And, the newly improved Yahoo! Messenger 8.0, new Indian language Audibles and Yahoo! Mail beta are examples of its efforts. And still Yahoo! India aims at enhancing the user’s experience day by day.