Nextel To Offer Yahoo Services On Handsets
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Nextel Communications Inc. on Wednesday said it plans to offer Yahoo Inc. products and services over the Nextel wireless network. Under the deal, Nextel subscribers will be able to log into
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Yahoo is upgrading its free software suite for mobile phones with improved search, mapping, e-mail and photo management.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - Internet media company Yahoo Inc.  on Wednesday launched its Web search service aimed at mobile phone users in the United States, opening a new front in its rivalry with Internet search leader Google Inc.
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T-Mobile announced on Tuesday that it will soon begin using Yahoo as its preferred mobile search provider in Europe, ending the operator&#39;s existing relationship with Google for mobile search.The move was seen by many as a minor coup for Yahoo, which is competing with Google and Microsoft to win the loyalty of a growing number of mobile Internet users. Others noted that mobile search is in its infancy and said the field is still wide-open.When T-Mobile signed its original deal with Google, it made headlines as one of the earliest partnerships between a mobile operator and a search provider.&quot;Well done Yahoo for knocking Google off the Web n Walk home page,&quot; wrote John Delaney, an analyst for Ovum, commenting on the announcement. Web n Walk is T-Mobile&#39;s mobile Internet offering.Beginning in March, T-Mobile customers in 11 European countries will see Yahoo&#39;s mobile oneSearch by default on their phones. OneSearch is designed to make it easy for mobile users to get relevant search results and navigate through different categories within search results.The companies plan to offer other Yahoo services to T-Mobile customers, including Flickr, Messenger, Mail, Weather and Finance. Yahoo now counts 29 operators around the world as oneSearch customers.The deal appears to mark a strategy change at T-Mobile. When the operator launched Web n Walk, the service was designed to mimic the Web by minimizing T-Mobile branded services and prominently offering Google, Delaney said. Since then, it has evolved to add more T-Mobile services. It&#39;s not clear yet which strategy end-users prefer. &quot;The risk is that T-Mobile will discover that its users really preferred it when T-Mobile gave them access to the Web, and then got out of their way,&quot; Delaney said.While the T-Mobile/Yahoo deal is a blow to Google, the search giant had a significant mobile win of its own this week.&#160;Nokia announced on Tuesday that it will add Google search in addition to its own search offering on select phones. Nokia plans to extend the offering to more phones in the future.Nokia has begun offering an increasing number of services, such as location-based maps and social-networking services, which could compete with offerings from operators. &quot;Nokia is walking a bit of a fine line because they&#39;re definitely moving into what some consider carrier territory,&quot; said Mike Wolf, an analyst at ABI Research.So far, the market for branded search services on mobile phones like those from Yahoo and Google is still wide-open, he said. The search providers are increasingly interested in mobile because there is strong growth in mobile Internet usage, he said. The iPhone is contributing to that as a device that aims to make the mobile Internet as similar as possible to the PC-based Internet.Services from Yahoo and Google also compete with those that are branded by the operator. Companies like Medio specialize in offering technology to operators for branded search services. Operators in the U.S. have been more likely to use the self-branded option rather than partner with one of the online brands. AT&amp;T, however, is one notable exception -- it uses Yahoo&#39;s oneSearch.Success in the mobile Internet is important enough that Wolf believes that Yahoo&#39;s track record in the mobile market was a factor in Microsoft&#39;s decision to try to buy the search provider. &quot;Mobile is probably at least a consideration in the acquisition attempt,&quot; he said.
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Yahoo Inc  will create  versions of its mobile Internet services to run on various  phone platforms, potentially including Google's phone software  and the Apple iPhone, a top executive said on Monday.
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Yahoo  will create versions  of its mobile Internet services to run on various phone  platforms, potentially including Google's phone software and  the Apple iPhone, a top executive said on Monday.
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Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced a new mobile phone service that integrates e-mail, instant messaging and social networks.
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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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The company plans to make available an API that lets Palm OS-powered devices work with BlackBerry wireless e-mail services.
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NTT DoCoMo Inc. will add three new search  services for its mobile phone users, including Yahoo Japan  Corp., a unit of its rival Softbank Corp., a company source  said Wednesday.
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Yahoo plans to announce it has opened up some of its key mobile software and services to outside publishers and programmers.
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U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel  Corp  said on Monday it would offer a new Microsoft Corp   Web and local business search application on its  phones using a technology that pinpoints a caller&#39;s location.
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Yahoo Inc. has followed Google into the mobile-search arena, launching a service that allows wireless users to query its search engine over their handsets.
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Nextel Communications to supply U.S.-based U.S. Navy personnel with cell phones, voice minutes and wireless data plans.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.  --  Yahoo Inc. will sell branded advertising aimed at mobile phone customers outside the United States as part of the Internet powerhouse's efforts to build other revenue sources beyond the Web.
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Nokia will expand its line of Yahoo-capable handsets to include those operating on the Series 40 platform, the operating system used by many of the Finnish phone maker's non-smartphone devices.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo Inc. will sell branded advertising aimed at mobile phone customers outside the United States as part of the Internet powerhouse's efforts to build other revenue sources beyond the Web.