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Yahoo! Launches Mail and Messenger Apps for Android

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New Delhi: Yahoo! Inc expanded the reach of its web services with the immediate availability of Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android as well as a Yahoo! Search Widget for Android. Leveraging the latest HTML5 technology, Yahoo! is also debuting Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News sites for iPhone and iPod Touch. Yahoo! apps for Android provide more than 300 million Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger users with the best communication experience for easily accessing and sharing information on Android phones. The Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger Android apps are available globally as free downloads available in the Android Market, supporting OS 2.0 or newer. With the new Yahoo! Mail App for Android, consumers can: Receive push notification of new email messages; Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as to contacts in the native phone address book; Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords; Upload photos as attachments directly from the phone's camera or the photo gallery; and Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails. The Yahoo! Mail app for Android offers advertisers an opportunity to reach a highly engaged mobile audience. Samsung is the inaugural advertiser with a rich media display advertising unit. With the new Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, consumers can: Easily message friends, check friends' status updates and availability and update their personal status and availability; Send instant messages to friends via SMS text message; Multitask and stay connected with the app working in the background; with push notifications, consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests; Get full use of emoticons and rich text formatting; and Send photos to friends directly from the phone's camera or the photo gallery.

Yahoo! Search Widget for Android provides consumers with convenient one-click access to Yahoo! Search. After the Widget is installed, a Yahoo! Search box is easily accessible on the home screen. With voice search for easier input, Search Assist for quick suggestions and recommendations, and auto-locate technology to deliver locally relevant results, the Yahoo! Search Widget quickly provides the answers a consumer needs. The Yahoo! Search Widget is currently available in the U.S. only for free. It is available for download in the Android Market and supports OS 2.0 or newer.

Harnessing the latest technology, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News are now built on HTML5 to give consumers a faster and more sophisticated mobile browsing experience. The upgraded Yahoo! Mail offers consumers a webmail experience that is fast and reliable and that easily surfaces rich content. Now available globally in 28 languages across 200 countries, Yahoo! Mail is optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch and is expected to be available across other Webkit-enabled browsers in the future.

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