The initiative could mean new ways to deal with mail messages
Yahoo is letting web programmers get their hands on the core code for its e-mail program.
By opening up the code Yahoo hopes to help create a series of innovative ways to deal with e-mail messages.
Eventually it said there could be "tens of thousands" of add-ons and extras for the e-mail reader.
Yahoo is only the latest of the big web companies to open up their main services to the wider code developing community.
full story: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5398310.stm
Yahoo is letting web programmers get their hands on the core code for its e-mail program.
By opening up the code Yahoo hopes to help create a series of innovative ways to deal with e-mail messages.
Eventually it said there could be "tens of thousands" of add-ons and extras for the e-mail reader.
Yahoo is only the latest of the big web companies to open up their main services to the wider code developing community.
full story: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5398310.stm