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Yahoo! offers video option
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June 26, 2001: 9:11 a.m. ET
Users of Yahoo! Messenger can send streaming video using Web cams
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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Internet portal Yahoo! said Tuesday it will allow users of its Yahoo! messenger service and Web cams to send videos of themselves while communicating on the service.
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Yahoo! is offering users of Yahoo! Messenger the chance to send live videos using their Web cams. | |
As part of the launch of the enhanced service, Yahoo! (YHOO: Research, Estimates) announced an agreement with Logitech International SA (LOGIY: Research, Estimates), the leading maker of Web cams, to co-market Logitech's popular QuickCam family of Web cams.
Yahoo! said users of its Yahoo! Messenger will be able to know who on their list of friends has a Web cam and when it is available, preview their own image on their Web cam, choose to allow everyone or just a select group of people to view their Web cam images, or set a preference so that other users must ask permission each time before viewing.
"Instant messaging was originally limited to text, then expanded to voice, and now, we see the very first instance of integrated visual communications media," Lisa Pollock, director of Messaging Products at Yahoo!, said.
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The number of Yahoo! Messenger users trails that of the Instant Messenger service of competitor Netscape, which is owned by AOL Time Warner (AOL: Research, Estimates), the parent company of CNNfn. Unlike e-mail, the different Internet messaging services do not interact with one another. 
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