Apple Adds Yahoo Messenger Video Chat to iChat

Apple has added support for Yahoo Messenger text, voice, and video chat to its iChat application for Mac OS X Lion, according to an AppleInsider report.

For Lion, Apple has added Yahoo as an account type. Yahoo operates its own proprietary protocol that can't interoperate with AOL or Jabber type accounts.

The other primary chat protocol is Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger, which is also proprietary and does not support cross chat with AOL or Jabber, although Microsoft and Yahoo have created a gateway between their two networks.

News of the new Yahoo client working with video and voice chat was initially reported by blogger iMarck90.

Yahoo Messenger was the first app to bring 3G video chat to the iPhone.




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Yahoo TV Will Bring 'Broadcast Interactivity' to Your Television

Yahoo has announced an upcoming new feature for Yahoo Connected TV called 'Broadcast Interactivity', reports ReadWriteWeb.

Yahoo is calling this new feature "broadcast interactivity" and says that it will "engage TV viewers like never before." The program is slated to begin sometime during the first half of 2011 and will allow content providers to pair its regular TV content with interactive content like polls, little tidbits of information (think Pop-Up Video that can be changed in real time), shopping capabilities and more. The pilot program will begin with ABC, CBS, the Home Shopping Network, Showtime, Ford, Microsoft and Mattel as partners.

Yahoo plans to release a D-Link device that will allow customers to use Yahoo Connected TV with their existing televisions. It is also planning a rival to AirPlay that will let iOS or Android users push content from their mobile devices directly to the TV.




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Flickr App Now Preserves EXIF Data, Gets New Photo Picker

Flickr has updated its iPhone app with a new photo picker, extended geolocation and Twitter support, and the ability to preserve EXIF data.

Share your photos. Watch the world. Flickr for the iPhone enables photo-sharing on the go - from your phone, to the world.

Features:
Shoot, upload and share photos & videos: Geo-tag your photos or add them to a set. View your photos by set and tag.

Stay up to date: See recent photo activities from your friends and family. Search and view photos by contact. Make comments or mark them as favorites.

Explore the world: Search photos & videos from the Flickr community all over the world - by subject, people, or places.

What's New In This Version:
New and improved upload functionality:
- Preserves all EXIF data, including date, time and geo-location of the photo
- New photo picker that allows multi-select of up to 5 photos for batch uploading
- Faster and more reliable background uploading on 3G connections

Extended geo location support:
- Adjust a photo's geo location prior upload on a custom map view
- Map view linked from the photo page to see where a photo or video was taken

Extended photo sharing to Twitter
- Now all photos that are allowed to be shared can be posted on Twitter with a snappy flic.kr short URL directly from the app

Other things:
- Fully optimized for high-resolution Retina display
- 42 set limit removed

You can download Flickr from the App Store for free.

















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