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Working Together: Yahoo! Messenger and Reuters Messaging

April 4, 2007 on 10:06 am | In Features | 18 Comments

Yesterday, Reuters Messaging announced the release of version 6.0, which includes connectivity with Yahoo! Messenger.

Reuters Messaging is a popular instant messaging program among energy market professionals, allowing them to communicate instantly with their market contacts about trades, scheduling and logistics. This new interoperability between Yahoo! Messenger and Reuters Messaging enables users of either program to send text based messages, see online presence, and access conversation history between networks by signing into one service.

To add a friend who uses Reuters Messaging 6.0 to your Yahoo! Messenger contact list, click the “+” button on your Messenger window. Then enter your friend’s email address and choose the “LCS” network from the drop down menu (eventually “Reuters” will become an option in the network menu, but for now use LCS).

This latest interoperability is part of our overall effort to help Yahoo! users connect with more friends, family and co-workers around the world by partnering with the industry’s leading communication networks. The Yahoo! Messenger network currently interoperates with the Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Live Communication Server and Reuters Messaging networks.

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

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  1. What would be really nice is if generic connectivity with XMPP (Jabber) servers were added (either built into messenger or through the Yahoo! network itself. I think this would not only show dedication to providing open IM communications with other services but also support for the Open Source community.

    Comment by Chet Simpson — April 4, 2007 #

  2. This is very good. Just like Phones can work in any network messengers should work with any network too. Now, you should try and bring inter-operatibility with AOL messenger and Google talk. Do let us know if you will work with these 2 messenger companies or not.

    Good luck.

    Okay then take care. I will give suggestions regarding this blog specially tomorrow or whenever I get a chance next. I have to go now to sleep soon. Bye everyone.

    Comment by user — April 4, 2007 #

  3. hmmm phones,,,,who would have guessed,,,, wionder if phones will work in the chat rooms…..hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm NOT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    Comment by den — April 4, 2007 #

  4. 1) I was talking about Normal phones…a phone of any network can make calls to a phone of any other network…

    similary a person using one messenger should be able to send messages to a person using any other messenger.

    2) Please be kind enough to delete phone numbers of people like the above. I think the person is trying to harass others.

    Shiula, Doha must be banned from commenting on this blog.

    Comment by noname — April 5, 2007 #

  5. All this messaging one messenger to another sounds like a way to get everyone on the same page to turn channels and start charging for services offered. You have money in one hand and good will in the other, which one will get you farther? Good will don’t pay the bills, money does.

    Comment by polar — April 5, 2007 #

  6. That above ‘noname’ is actually me. Just posted the above comment with my different blog-commentator ID.

    Okay yes…I have to make suggestions for this blog…so here they are… please follow up on these:

    1) When the comments are posted here…only the date of the comment posting is shown…can the time stamp be also there…Date and Time should be there on the comments

    2) There should be a section on right on the LATEST COMMENTS…some people come and comment on some old threads and it’s not possible for us to go and check every thread and look for new comments all the time.
    So it’s good to have the LATEST COMMENTS section

    Thanks…I will give more suggestions later…Cheers

    Comment by user — April 5, 2007 #

  7. Though totally offtopic, i would like to know if the messenger team can release few NEW screenshots of Yahoo! messenger for Vista..

    i cant wait for the beta

    Comment by Arun — April 6, 2007 #

  8. [...] Extending your circle of friends: Got financial-services pals who use Reuters Messaging? Yahoo! Messenger just rolled out a handshake to let you connect with them in real time. Here’s how. Go to your Yahoo! Messenger Contact list, click the “+” button, and then enter your friend’s email address. Read more here. [...]

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  9. Might as well include XMPP (Google Talk) support, Hopefully this will shut those Google fanboys up for good.

    Comment by Muzammil — April 6, 2007 #

  10. What would be nice is if YAHOO worked on getting chat fixed not adding new things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by OWP — April 9, 2007 #

  11. yahoo! messenger is fun as hell!

    Comment by nicole — April 14, 2007 #

  12. I know this is off this particular topic, but what happened to off line messages on my Yahoo IM?? Since downloading the new Yahoo messenger, I cannot receive any off line messages anyone leaves on my Yahoo IM~Please tell me what is going on with this. Is this no longer a feature?? I loved that feature. It allowed my friends, family and I to keep in touch easily…Please comment about this~Lynne

    Comment by Lynne — May 7, 2007 #

  13. Hi Lynne,

    Offline messages are still a part of Yahoo! Messenger, including the new Yahoo! Messenger for the Web. I’m sorry that you’re having problems receiving them. I recommend uninstalling Yahoo! Messenger and then reinstalling the latest version from the Messenger website (http://messenger.yahoo.com). Thanks,

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — May 8, 2007 #

  14. Thank you very much.!

    Comment by jdfh — October 3, 2007 #

  15. How to solve issue on group message from yahoo not receive in RM

    Comment by Keny — December 27, 2007 #

  16. i can not add my reuters messaging contacts to my YM. i have followed the steps above. the error message was “there was an error in the server while trying to add contact. please try again”
    i tried again and again but all failed. please help me. thank you

    Comment by yuli — July 16, 2008 #

  17. Hello,

    I received the same error as yuli which is when adding a reuters messenger contact, I get an error that says “there was an error in the server while trying to add contact. please try again” I’ve tried and tried and the error still persists. Does anyone have any advice to offer? Thanks.

    Comment by Amanda — October 31, 2008 #

  18. could it be it? i was searching for information needed for such a long time. Thank you!

    Comment by casa emilia — February 4, 2009 #

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