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'Yahoo! Messenger' Goes Universal, Adds Video Calling for iPad 2

Thursday May 19, 2011 10:31 AM PDT by Eric Slivka

Yahoo yesterday released an update to its Yahoo! Messenger application for iOS devices, going universal with an iPad-specific interface and adding voice and video calling capabilities for the iPad 2.

What's new

- iPad-optimized layout
- Voice & video calling for iPad 2
- Improved spam management: block one or all add requests from a single view
- Fixed multiple bugs including the unexpected sign-out issue

Yahoo! Messenger is a free application.

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