Yahoo Revamps Calendar Service

By Juan Carlos Perez

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The new Yahoo Calendar allows items to be dragged-and-dropped into the calendar, as well as to be color-coded, and users will be able to call up calendar views as detailed as a single event and as broad as a month. The new Yahoo Calendar also has a "to do" feature for listing pending tasks and the capability to set up reminder alerts that can be delivered via e-mail, instant messaging or SMS.

Future versions of the new Yahoo Calendar will also sync up bi-directionally with Microsoft Outlook's calendar and let users access Yahoo Calendar when they're not connected to the Internet via integration with Zimbra Desktop. The new Yahoo Calendar is based on technology from Zimbra, which Yahoo acquired last year.

In the future, Yahoo also plans to add further integration with other of its services, such as Yahoo Maps, so that users can call up a map from within the calendar, Kremer said.

Users will also be able to subscribe to receive events from public calendars and event services like Yahoo's own Upcoming.org.

The new Yahoo Calendar will also give third-party developers the chance to build applications and extensions for it via APIs and its standards-based architecture, Kremer said.

Yahoo has set up a Web site for those interested in getting more information about the new Yahoo Calendar.

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