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If you haven’t jumped ship onYahoo! yet and hopped on the Gmail train, just know that Yahoo! is still here for you. In response to customer feedback, Yahoo! Mail has added a bunch of great new features that will go live this week forYahoo! Mail Betausers around the world. New features include: Yahoo! is bringing back their colorful, playful themes.To access their new gallery of themes, go to the Help drop-down menu at the top left of the page, select Themes and check out their gallery....

Update from Yahoo! at the foot of the post. If you’ve been having trouble getting into your Yahoo! Mail today, you’re not alone. Widereports across Twitterare showing many people are having the same problem. The problem? Nobody seems to know why it’s working for some and yet not others. While many of us here at TNW forget about Yahoo! Mail, it’s a service that still dwarfs Gmail in number of users....

Here’s an intriguing story – a consortium of technology and media companies including Yahoo, BT, music streaming service We7 and content production company Somethin” Else, have been awarded an £1.8m grant to work on a ‘cloud radio’ service codenamed ‘Apollo’. What’s that? AsDigital Spyreports, the project will look into the development of “next-generation personal radio and music services that can work across any internet-connected device, such as mobiles, tablets and web TVs”....

Yahoo is ready with a final version of its revamped email service in an attempt to make it more appealing to people who are shifting to social networking sites as their primary means of communication. Users of Yahoo’s free email service will be switched to the new version during the next few weeks. Aside from the overhauled user interface and speed improvements, the company is adding new features that tightly knit a user’s social networking account into their Yahoo Mail....

If you live in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and you’re interested in developing Windows Phone 7 (WP7) apps, now you can get help developing and deploying them to Marketplace. Students get to do that for free. Yalla Appsis a joint project between Microsoft and Prototype Interactive that technically lets you submit your WP7 app via its portal, and in turn it will submit your app to the Marketplace for you....