Yahoo Mail now includes texting

I always thought Yahoo Mail had some sort of texting built in. Apparently not — as it’s just been announced that they now support it to some countries. Unfortunately the UK isn’t in that list… yet. Most probably (I’m just hypothesising) because Yahoo have to pay to originate a message in the UK; whereas in Canada or other countries, they can ’email’ a 160 character message to a cellphone number — so the recipient pays, not Yahoo.

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Yahoo launched a new version of its Web-based mail service Monday, incorporating advanced communication functions it says have not been offered before.

The new version of Yahoo Mail includes “real-time communication” in the form of instant messaging and SMS (short message service) text messaging as well as several other performance enhancements that will mainly benefit those with up-to-date computers.