Yahoo Offers Tools to Build Mobile Widgets
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Updates to Yahoo Go and the mobile browser invite third-party developers to write mobile widgets for Yahoo services.
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Yang shows off Yahoo Go 3.0, potential features in Yahoo Mail, and other mobile efforts at CES.
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As more applications move to the Web, companies like Yahoo are working to nourish their "ecosystem" of software developers.
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Adobe Systems, the digital imaging, design and document technology platform provider and Internet service provider Yahoo will announce this week the launch of a co-branded Yahoo Toolbar.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo (Quote, Chart) expanded its search empire to the mobile arena with the launch of some additional services. The company was one of the original content providers for mobile devices running
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Yahoo will offer its own version of wireless Internet searching, keeping pace with rival Google, which recently introduced a mobile search offering.
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Yahoo is making APIs available to developers who want to build applications for its new Panama search ad platform.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 6  /PRNewswire/ -- GuiFX today announced the release of two tools to help designers create rich user interfaces for remote controls, touch panel control systems, kiosks, computer applications, mobile devices, and web sites.
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(InfoWorld) - Web 2.0 is coming to mobile phones, according to Nokia, which has launched a service that allows Java-enabled phone users to choose widgets, or small applications, that can be displayed on their phones. WidSets, introduced on Tuesday, is a free offering that users can set up on theÂ WidSets Web site. On the site, customers can choose from many different widgets that will be displayed on their phones. Widgets usually reside on a desktop and receive information, such as data delivered via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). For example, a Google News widget can appear as a small icon, and when users click on the icon, they can see the latest headlines that appear on the Google News Web site. Widgets are considered Web 2.0 applications because they offer an interactive and customizable service different from more static Web sites. After a new user signs up, the WidSets site sends an application via text message to the user's phone. Users must run the WidSets application and stay connected to the Internet to see the widgets and to allow the widgets to be updated with new content. The WidSets Web site is designed to support community input so users can browse for useful widgets based on community rankings. The service is free for phone users, although they'll pay associated costs to their mobile operators for data download. For now, Nokia doesn't have a way to make money from the offering but in the future the service could support advertising or Nokia could sell premium content, said Tom Henriksson, director of Nokia's emerging business unit. WidSets isn't the first widget offering for mobile phones. Opera Software ASA supports widgets on its mobile browsers. Henriksson praised the Opera offering as a great option but said that WidSets is designed to make using widgets on mobile phones easy. Nokia has increasingly begun offering different types of services like this one that could compete with content services from operators. But Henriksson says that offerings like WidSets benefit everyone in the market. "We think these help data services in general take off. Then everybody wins," he said.
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Some new features may give Yahoo! shareholders reason to shout.
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Widgets, or small Web applications that supply useful information direct to the desktop, could soon be appearing on your cell phone screen.Japan&#39;s Access, the company behind the NetFront browser that is used in hundreds of phones on sale worldwide, has developed a widget system for the latest version of the browser and will demonstrate it next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.Much like those on Apple&#39;s Mac OSX or Windows Vista, the NetFront widgets can do things like provide updated weather information, news headlines, favorites from YouTube, local maps, and photo feeds from Web sites.The intention is that users will be able to download widgets for sites like Google Maps, YouTube, and Wikipedia so those sites become services available directly from the desktop. In the case of some sites, say an auction site where prices change all the time, the widget will be able to provide constantly updated information to the desktop so the user doesn&#39;t have to go through a browser to the Web site.The widgets can be kept minimized at the bottom of the screen or placed on the desktop, where they appear as small boxes showing just a few highlights of the information they contain. Click on the boxes and they expand to full screen and their entire contents can be accessed.In a demonstration the minimized weather widget showed a symbol for the sun -- the current weather conditions at the time. When placed on the desktop it added the current conditions, &quot;clear,&quot; and the temperature and when fully expanded a three-day forecast was provided.The news widget displayed just five headlines on the desktop but expanded to show more news and the full text of each story while the video widget on the desktop had a screenshot from a single video and expanded to show details of the video and related content.In addition to linking up with data stored on the network the widgets framework also supports communication with parts of the phone hardware, like the camera, GPS chip or e-mail client.Access has developed the widget framework for NetFront 3.5, the latest version of its browser. The software isn&#39;t in any products available to consumers but is on its way. Access said it has already released NetFront 3.5 to partners and products are coming. It has also had interest on the widgets from partners but wouldn&#39;t identify them.On Monday Access will begin offering a preview of NetFront 3.5 intended for software developers. The software runs on Windows Mobile.The NetFront browser has been fitted in 1,349 different products to date including cell phones, televisions, set-top boxes, and PDAs. On Thursday Access said more than 544 million copies of the browser have been installed on such products.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo has teamed up with High Tech Computer&#160;(HTC) to put a suite of Internet software applications on millions of Windows Mobile handsets, the companies said Wednesday.
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On PHPied.com, Stoyan Stefanov shows how, via a simple bit of code (using some SimpleXML) he replaced the javascript widgets he was previously using for weather information.   So it was time for a change, since those buttons were generated by some javascripts, hosted by theweathernetwork, which is kind of a web 1.0 way of sharing content. In the days of APIs and stuff, this is a shame.   He dropped theweathernetwork.com's information and went for something a little more API-friendly - the weather feeds that Yahoo! offers. Once he figured out the right URL parameter to pass for the cities, it was just a matter of whipping up a 30 line script (using SimpleXML) to grab the weather information for the city and echo out the data.
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Continuing to redefine the mobile Internet experience for millions of  consumers around the world, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced  the availability of gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 on Windows  Mobile powered devices.
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Yahoo Inc. has added mobile  phones running Microsoft's Windows Mobile software to a growing  list of handsets from device makers who feature its services on  their phone screens.
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Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) has officially entered the desktop search market with a beta release tool available for free download from the company's site.
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Yahoo's new RSS mashup application is so easy even an editor can do it.