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Blog: Yahoo IM fixed after temporary problems
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p2pnet.net News:- A three-day problem with MSN Messengers had nothing to do with Funner, the newest e-bug to bite Microsoft. &quot;MSN Messenger, Microsoft&#39;s instant message service, is back up and running this
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Froogle, directories and search clippings by SMS
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo has fixed a serious vulnerability in its Messenger instant messaging client. The patch, posted Thursday, fixes a critical flaw in the ActiveX control used by Messenger's Webcam feature. According to security experts, this flaw could be exploited by hackers to install unauthorized software on a victim's PC. The patch came after two sample attacks that exploited the vulnerability were posted to the Full Disclosure security discussion list. EEye Digital Security first reported the issue on Wednesday without disclosing specific details of the bug. The security vendor considers the flaw to be serious. "ActiveX remote code execution vulnerabilities have very high impacts because the source of the malicious payload can be any site on the Internet," eEye said in its alert. This is the third time in recent months that Yahoo has had to patch an ActiveX control flaw in Messenger. It patched these other bugs in March and December.
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Users of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) MSN Messenger lost the ability to swap instant messages for a brief period, the world&#39;s largest software maker said on Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has released the final version of its new IMÂ client optimized for Windows Vista. Windows Live Messenger 8.1 offers enhancements that make it more compatible with Vista,Â which had its widespread consumer release on Tuesday. Updates in the IM client include new looks for emoticons, contacts, and display photos that take advantage of Vista's new and improved user interface, Microsoft said. Microsoft also added the ability to send an SMS (short message service) to a phone number or add phone numbers for contacts by clicking on a cell-phone icon in the client's main window. Also new is the ability to send a personal message when users want to add a new contact to their contact list. Windows Live Messenger 8.1 also includes a "roaming identity" feature that allows not only a person's display name to follow users any place they sign into, but also their display picture and personal message. In addition to new features, the software's final version corrects a problem users were having with beta versions, according to a post on the Inside Windows Live Messenger blog, which is written by members of the team working on the product. A user with an old version of Adobe's Flash technology on Vista would crash the Windows Live Messenger 8.1 beta client, wrote Nicole Steinbok, product manager for Windows Live Messenger. However, the final version of the software fixes that. "I still highly recommend you update your Flash player if you haven't already," Steinbok wrote in the post. "But if not, we have put in an extra safety measure [that] disable features that use Flash and provides you a way to upgrade to eliminate the Flash crash." Windows Live Messenger also is available in eight new languages: Bulgarian, Estonian, Croatian, Latvian, Romanian, Serbian Latin, Thai, and Ukrainian. Microsoft rival YahooÂ also plans a release of its Yahoo Messenger IM client that is optimized for Vista. Yahoo previewed the IM client at theÂ Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month and will put out a beta by June, with a version to follow in the third quarter of the year.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Inc. will soon start to fulfill a promise it made to users several months ago to tie its new Web mail service with its instant messaging application. Starting Monday and continuing over the coming months, Yahoo will activate this feature for users of the new version of Yahoo Mail, which is in beta, or test, phase but available to all users of the service. Yahoo officials demonstrated the integration of the Yahoo Mail beta with Yahoo Messenger in November at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The audience reacted enthusiastically to the plan. The new feature alerts Yahoo Mail beta users if their contacts are logged on to Yahoo Messenger and gives them the option of starting a text chat session from within the mail interface. If the user is composing an e-mail message but wants to chat instead, Yahoo Mail can grab the text and paste it into the text chat window. Likewise, the chat session can be automatically imported to an e-mail message form. This integration with Yahoo Messenger is the first of several tie-ups the company plans to implement in the ( Yahoo Mail beta ), because it wants the service to offer multiple communication options to its users, said John Kremer, Yahoo Mail's vice president. Although he declined to confirm future plans, he acknowledged it would make sense to let Yahoo Mail users launch voice conversations and to create links to the company's social networking service, Yahoo 360. Another likely development would be to extend Yahoo Messenger's interoperability with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live Messenger into the Yahoo Mail beta, he said. The beta version, a free service, offers a number of improvements over the current version, including a more agile interface based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) that works like a desktop application. The beta was introduced in September 2005. Unlike typical Web mail services, it lets users drag and drop messages into folders, provides a pane to preview messages' content and offers the ability to have multiple message windows open.
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Webcam! library! peril! ActiveX controls - so often the source of Internet Explorer flaws - are the font of two newly discovered flaws in Yahoo! Messenger.â¦
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As people spend more time online &#151; and logged into instant messaging services &#151; it's inevitable that there are times they just can't respond. That's why the "away message" &#151; set up to be sent automatically from someone's account &#151; has become so popular.
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Cat out of the bag 3GSM Windows Mobile 6.0 is out! Well, at the least, the secret of WM 6 is out. Microsoft was today frantically trying to deny its heroic efforts to keep the next generation Windows smartphone hidden from NewsWireless - but the cat was out of the bag even before the Tribune newspaper blew the embargo, because of the enthusiasm in VoIP circles for the new OS.â¦
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InfoWorld - Yahoo, disconcertingly unable toÂ develop a popular social networking site, will try to accentuate the social networking capabilities of Yahoo Messenger when it releases on Tuesday a beta upgrade of this widely used instant messaging service.
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Attackers could bombard PCs using instant messenger's "away" feature. AOL says a fix is imminent.
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It&#39;s called &quot;spim,&quot; and it&#39;s the instant-messaging equivalent of spam--a shotgun blast of unwanted advertisements via instant-messaging tools or chat rooms.
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Beta testers find flaws in a new feature of the instant messaging app.
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Service that answers questions via text messages comes in handy when you're sans the Internet, but don't ask it about the meaning of life.
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Text messaging for the uncoordinated You can now use Yahoo! Mail to swap text messages with mobile phones. If you're living in the right country.â¦
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Instant messaging and online chat are well on their way to ubiquity -- especially among the young. How can parents ensure messaging is safe?