Yahoo Inc has revealed that it has started to enable users to make telephone calls and surf the Internet through its "Yahoo Messenger with Voice" service, an upgrade of its instant messaging (IM) system.
The new service is said to enable high-quality voice calling, allowing users to make phone calls to family and friends anywhere in the world between PCs. According to Yahoo, IM is very popular amongst children aged 9-12 years old and teenagers and often accounts for the main part of their online time. The company is reported to have upgraded its IM service with the aim of drawing a young audience familiar with broadband web connections and with the intention of keeping rival voice-calling services at bay.
Yahoo is said to be attempting to fend off the increasing popularity of services such as Skype, an Internet phone calling service with around 48m registered users worldwide. Yahoo's service, to include free spam protection, photo-sharing and voicemail, is available at http://messenger.yahoo.com/ in 18 localised versions and is claimed to have attracted millions of users for the final testing.
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