Yahoo Messenger 10 beta: A legitimate Skype rival? by Jessica Dolcourt, Webware (Aug 31)
Yahoo Messenger is moving into social networking and, more importantly, video calling. This article has details and screenshots.
"VoIP and PC-to-landline calls aren't new to Yahoo Messenger, but the icon that calls out video chats is. Most of the major IM clients support voice-over-Internet calls with Webcams. It is Yahoo's attention to video quality makes this build a closer competitor to Skype for Windows, which is a VoIP client first, enriched by chatting, file sharing, emoticons, and games. Yahoo Messenger (and Windows Live Messenger, and so on, for that matter,) are chat apps at the core that have layered on other P2P features."
Posted by Gwen at September 2, 2009 01:56 PM