Working with Siemens will greatly increase the potential for new and existing users to take advantage of our rich communications suite. Today's announcement is a first step in a relationship that will expand and continue to benefit both Yahoo! and Siemens customers for a long time to come.

Historically communications have been stuck in a bunch of different silos.

Today, these are real niche applications. The exciting thing is that Yahoo is taking Web 2.0 to the masses.

Yahoo!'s top priority is to provide a stellar communications service through a variety of easy, fun and inexpensive ways to stay connected with others around the world. We look forward to further incorporating voice features into Yahoo!'s global services, from communications to search, to help simplify and improve the Internet experience for our hundreds of millions of users around the world.