T-Mobile Dumps Google in Europe for Yahoo
607202
T-Mobile customers in 11 countries will see oneSearch as their mobile search application.
667942
By MATT MOORE  FRANKFURT, Germany - Time Warner Inc. is giving up its foothold in one of the fastest-growing markets for broadband Internet access with a deal to sell AOL Germany's Internet access business to Telecom Italia SpA for about $870 million.
457377
AMSTERDAM T-Mobile, Europe&#39;s second largest mobile carrier, said on Wednesday that it had started the Continent&#39;s first trial of a high-speed wireless Internet service that uses Flash OFDM technology.
453736
A deal with Hewlett-Packard will place Yahoo search and other services on H.P. personal computers sold in the U.S. and Europe.
280136
(InfoWorld) - YahooÂ is schmoozing mobile phone operators atÂ the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in the hopes of enlisting partners for its new mobile search services. With mobile phones soon expected to push PCs aside as the most popular tool to access the Internet, the company has given mobility a top priority and is taking steps to establish its mobile search engine as the technology of choice for mobile operators Marco Boerries, senior vice president of Yahoo Connected Life, said Tuesday at a news conference at the mobile phone show in sunny Spain. A gamma version of the company's new Java-based search application, Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, is now available afterÂ a beta version was released in January at the International Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas, according to Boerries. The application is designed to help users easily navigate a selection of personal channels for such areasÂ as news, sports, entertainment, and maps. "Mobile search so far hasn't worked because it's been an adaption of PC search," Boerries said. "Mobile users want instant answers" that are intelligently selected for small devices. A key feature of Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 is oneSearch, a new search engine designed specifically for mobile devices. Instead of returning a list of Web sites, the search engine provides facts related to the query term, according to Boerries. More than 400,000 users have downloaded the beta application to about 100 different devices. Yahoo is particularly keen to have mobile phone operators and vendors preinstall the application. On Monday,Â the company reached a deal with LG ElectronicsÂ that will bring its brand to the screens of tens of millions of LG cell phone handsets shipped later this year. Under the deal, LG will preload Yahoo services, including Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Messenger on phones sold worldwide. Clearly set on establishing an ad-funded search service on mobile phones similar to its service for PCs, Yahoo said Monday it will start showing mobile display ads on its Yahoo Mobile Web service in 19 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Major advertisers include Intel, Pepsi, and Proctor & Gamble. The use of ad-funded search services will help mobile phone operators generate revenue that they may want to return to customers in the way of free services, Boerries said. "You can only give something away if you make something," he said. "Mobile advertising will enable this." Â
139727
South Korea&#39;s LG Electronics said Wednesday it would sell third-generation (3G) mobile phones in Europe this week, installed with mobile services of the world&#39;s top Internet search engine Google.
377823
While Yahoo is working with major mobile &#038; wireless carriers to provide advertising via the mobile Yahoo network and its partners, Google is working with Vodafone to develop a GPS oriented location based Google Maps for Vodafone users. The Guardian quotes: &#8220;Vodafone sees Google Maps as a new milestone in the relationship that both companies are developing,&#8221; [...]
431345
(InfoWorld) - YahooÂ is seeking to reassure carriers that it isn't trying to cut them out of the loop with its mobile content services, even as it rolls outÂ new mobile servicesÂ for customers. "Yahoo wants to work with operators for an optimized experience," said David Ko, vice president and general manager of Yahoo's mobile and broadband business in Asia, speaking Wednesday at the CommunicAsia Summit. Mobile operators are increasingly nervous that companies like Yahoo and Google will go direct to users with mobile content services, using their networks to offer so-called "over-the-top services" that don't give operators a cut of the revenue. These concerns have grown as content companies refine their mobile offerings and look for ways to make them available to users. During a speech at the CommunicAsia Summit, Ko announced that six Asian operators will use Yahoo's mobile search engine, calledÂ oneSearch. They are Globe Telecom in the Philippines, India's Idea Cellular, South Korea's LG Telecom, Maxis Communications in Malaysia, Indonesia's PT Telekomunikasi Selular, and Taiwan Mobile. These operators, which represent about 100 million subscribers, have agreed to use Yahoo's oneSearch in exchange for a portion of revenue from the mobile search service, Ko said, declining to detail specific terms of the deals. Most of the revenue will come from advertising, he said. In addition, operators will generate revenue from increased data charges as users access the search engine. The announcement that six operators will use oneSearch is an important win for Yahoo in Southeast Asia, where cellular-phone penetration rates outstrip the availability of PCs. Yahoo has long been a presence in the region, where its services are widely used. But competition is heating up: Google opened its Singapore office in May, announcing plans to set up an R&D center and expand its business in Southeast Asia. Â
497028
(InfoWorld) - Yahoo will upgrade its free software suite for mobile phones, improving such capabilities as search, mapping, e-mail, and photo management, theÂ company announced on Tuesday. Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, which has been in test mode since its introduction in the U.S. in January, will shed its test tag on Friday. That day, Yahoo will also launch beta versions of the suite in 13 other countries. Those versions will be "localized," meaning their user interface will be in the countries' local languages and that other default data will reflect local settings for things like weather and time. In related news, Yahoo plans to announce on Wednesday at the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore that six mobile operators in the Asia-Pacific region have agreed to make its oneSearch the exclusive search engine of their mobile Web portals. The deal gives Yahoo access to a combined universe of almost 100 million mobile subscribers in those markets. The operators are Globe Telecom in the Philippines, Idea Cellular in India, LG Telecom in Korea, Maxis Communications Berhad in Malaysia, PT Telekomunikasi Selular "Telkomsel" in Indonesia, and Taiwan Mobile. Yahoo, like other major Internet players, is busy porting its software and online services for mobile devices, which are fast becoming the preferred Internet access vehicle for millions of people around the world thanks to improvements in mobile bandwidth and hardware. In the U.S. and the other 13 countries, the Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 suite, which is free to download, will be available for more than 200 different mobile phones by the end of July and for more than 400 by the end of the year, according to Yahoo. It will also be preloaded on some new devices from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics, Research In Motion, and High Tech ComputerÂ that will ship later this year, saving those handset owners from downloading the software. The new version of Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 operates faster than its predecessor with lower page loading times, including in its Flickr photo management service. Its Yahoo Mail capabilities have been expanded as well. Previously, it could open plain text and image attachments, but the new version adds the ability to open Adobe's PDF files and Microsoft's Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. Also new is the ability to access Yahoo Mail folders. The Yahoo Maps/Local service now shows satellite image maps, as well as so-called hybrid maps, which combine the satellite images with the traditional cartographic representations. Also new is the display of real-time traffic conditions on the maps and better overall performance for the service. It also provides GPS services on some devices. The suite's new version also makes it easier for users to search contacts in their Yahoo Address Book and initiate calls or get driving directions from that interface. Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 also has the oneSearch service and mobile versions of other Yahoo services like Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Weather. The 13 countries getting beta versions of the suite are Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Spain, the U.K., Thailand, and Vietnam. These beta versions will have "much of the functionality" available to U.S. users, according to Yahoo. More information about the Yahoo Go suite can be found on this Web site.
220867
Google SMS started serving search results to mobile users in the US just a few days back. Now Yahoo! follows it with even more comprehensive feature set.
532501
Yahoo Inc  ousted archrival  Google Inc  as T-Mobile's top Internet partner in  Europe as it unveiled a service to squeeze social Web  connections on to cell phone screens, a day after rebuffing a  $41.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp .
549985
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet media company Yahoo Inc. 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.
300756
INTERNET search firm Google is testing a new service in the US which allows people to use mobile phones to tap into its web search engine via text messages.
517013
(InfoWorld) - The T-Mobile brand could soon be coming to a market near you. As part of a strategy to revive profits, Deutsche TelekomÂ intends to expand its T-Mobile cellular business in markets in which the German telecommunications group is already offering fixed-line services and possibly in entirely new markets, the company said Thursday. T-Mobile is already one of the largest mobile phone operators in western Europe and the U.S. Its T-Mobile USA subsidiary has emerged as the group's main growth engine. Deutsche Telekom "does not rule out acquisitions" as part of its expansion strategy, it said. Acquiring the Dutch mobile phone subsidiary of France's Orange could be part of that strategy. The company is rumored to be among the bidders for the Dutch company, the smallest of four operators in the Netherlands. The new strategy carries the signature of RenÃ© Obermann, newly appointed CEO of Deutsche Telekom and the former head of the group's mobile phone business. Obermann is under pressure to tap new areas of growth to offset falling prices for mobile phone calls in mature markets such as Germany and the U.S. and to counter stiff competition from providers of fixed-line telephone services, particularly new VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service providers. More than 2.3 fixed-line customers defected to rivals last year. Obermann's new strategy also includes selling several business units, including the French and Spanish ISPs (Internet service providers) Club Internet and Ya.com and the T-Systems Media & Broadcast unit. In addition, the CEO hopes to find an international "strategic partner" for its T-Systems subsidiary. T-Systems provides IT services to about 60 multinationals and 160,000 smaller companies. The Frankfurt-based unit, which also operates and maintains Deutsche Telekom's global telecommunications network, was established a few years ago following the merger of DaimlerChrysler's IT outsourcing unit, Debis Systemhaus, and the systems integration activities of the German network operator. Last year, T-Systems acquired Gedas, the former computer services subsidiary of German car maker Volkswagen. Gedas has 12 subsidiaries around the world, including Brazil, China, Japan, and the U.S. Most of these are located in automobile manufacturing centers. By the end of 2010, Deutsche Telekom hopes to have 1.5 million customers for its new IPTV (Internet Protocol television) service. The operator intends to have 50 cities connected to its new VDSL (Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line) network next year, with an additional 750 towns to linked via ADSL2+ (Asymmetric DSL) technology. Deutsche Telekom's VDSL network has been a contentious issue with regulators in Brussels. On Monday, the European CommissionÂ threatened the German governmentÂ with legal action unless it scraps a new law thatÂ protects Deutsche Telekom from competitionÂ in the broadband Internet access market. The Commission's action focuses on specific amendments in the German law that effectively exempt the German operator VDSL network from competition. The amendment was requested by the company, which is still partly owned by the German state. Â
75228
Some of Europe's biggest telecoms groups are to hold talks next week about creating a mobile phone search engine which could challenge US giants Google and Yahoo!.
490868
The latest contender, Flash OFDM technology carries data 10 times faster and is cheaper than 3G phone networks. AMSTERDAM: Europe&#39;s second largest mobile carrier T-Mobile said it had started the continent&#39;s
133521
Internet giant Yahoo is to launch its new generation Internet portal for mobile phones in 12 countries on Friday, the company said.