Yahoo chief opens the mobile web
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Search firm Yahoo reveals its ambitions to create a "rich web experience" on mobile phones.
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Yahoo Inc.  on Wednesday said  its mobile services is now available for download on phones  that use Microsoft Corp.'s  Windows Mobile operating  system.
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Monday said Yahoo&#39;s goal for being users&#39; Internet home page is to keep it simple, and his pared-down first-time CES keynote appearance as the company&#39;s top executive reflected that.Yang&#39;s keynote on the first day of the annual consumer electronics techfest was a far cry from a splashy keynote Yang&#39;s predecessor Terry Semel gave at the show two years ago, in which Hollywood heavyweights such as Tom Cruise and Ellen DeGeneres helped him get his message across.Using only a few company cohorts to help him, Yang described the Yahoo portal as the starting point for people&#39;s Internet experience, the place that would connect them to a variety of services and devices.&quot;We continue to strive for the goal to keep the Web even simpler,&quot; he said. &quot;We want to drive home that you can come to Yahoo as your starting point and get everything you need done.&quot;Yang demonstrated a prototype for what a future Yahoo Mail inbox might look like, complete with links to third-party applications such as Evite and eBay built into a navigation bar on the interface.The inbox can be customized in a way that looks similar to what social-networking site Facebook does for its users. The demo also showed how Yang might invite some of his contacts to dinner and map out the location of restaurants they like.Keeping its message simple might not be a bad idea for Yahoo. The company faces a challenging time as it continues to struggle in online advertising against Google, remaining second to the search giant despite its first-mover advantage. Yahoo also is still in danger of being gobbled by a bigger fish, as rumors that Microsoft or another heavyweight may buy the Internet company continue to swirl.To help encourage more developers to build applications for its Yahoo Go mobile interface and its portal, Yang on&#160;Monday introduced face-lifts for both as well as plans to make both developer platforms more open.The new Yahoo mobile home page, which hasn&#39;t changed much in the past few years, is now customizable, with users able to choose &quot;content modules&quot; that will appear on their home page, said Yahoo executive vice president Marco Boerries.On the mobile side, starting on Monday, the Yahoo Go client will begin showing display advertisements to users, part of Yahoo&#39;s strategy to bolster its ad revenues. In addition to the new look of the mobile Web page, Boerries also introduced documentation that will let third-party developers build mobile widgets for Go.
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Group seeks to make Web access for mobile device users as easy as it is for desktop users.
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Verizon Communications plans to work with Yahoo, the Internet search engine, to introduce a portal for its high-speed Internet service.
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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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Yahoo chief executive and co-founder plans to expand the Internet stalwart to make it âa starting pointâ for consumers.
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Yahoo says its mobile Internet service may run on Google's Android platform and the Apple iPhone.
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Yahoo Inc's  Jerry Yang will  seek on Monday to demonstrate in his first major speech since  taking over as chief executive in June the inroads the company  is making putting Web services on mobile phones.
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After losing some of its luster on the personal computer, embattled Internet icon Yahoo Inc. is hoping to outshine Google and other rivals on the mobile phone.
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New site is designed to spur development of OS for improved mobile Web surfing, networking, power management, user interface, more.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo has teamed up with High Tech ComputerÂ (HTC) to put a suite of Internet software applications on millions of Windows Mobile handsets, the companies said Wednesday. The deal puts Yahoo a step ahead of rivals with its Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0. HTC, the latest of a number of companies Yahoo has signed on to use its software, is the world's largest maker of handsets that run Windows Mobile. The OS is normally found on the kind of high end smartphones that Yahoo is targeting. "We don't have any kind of agreement with Google right now, but we do provide pocket MSN and IE on our Windows Mobile handsets and we will continue to do so," said an HTC representative. Yahoo, of Sunnyvale, California, said it would put the gamma, or release candidate, version of the mobile software on HTC handsets. Previously, only a test version had been available. OnceÂ a software is ready for general release, it moves from gamma to gold. HTC, of Taipei, Taiwan, will preload Yahoo Go 2.0 on millions of devices, the companies said in a statement. HTC joins a host of other companies announcing support for the new applications, including Nokia, Research In Motion, Motorola, and Samsung Electronics. Users can download Yahoo Go 2.0 for free on more than 75 Windows Mobile devices via a link at a special section of Yahoo's Web site. The site also offers a place for users to input their mobile phone numbers to determine if their handset can run the suite. In all, Go 2.0 can be used on over 100 different mobile phone models, a number that will rise to 175 models in the near future, according to Yahoo. The company is aiming for 400 devices by the end of the year. Launched early this year, Yahoo Go 2.0 offers users oneSearch, which serves up useful information for Internet searches instead of just a list of Web sites. For example, if a user types in "pizza," the search engine will display phone numbers for local pizzerias. It also offers a number of widgets including e-mail, local information, maps, news, sports, finance, and more.
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Gary Price ran across a Yahoo7 (Yahoo Australia) service which text messages Yahoo Bookmarks to the mobile phone. From Yahoo7: A Yahoo! mobile bookmark (or WAP bookmark) is a &#8220;favourite&#8221; or a bookmark that resides in your mobile phone&#8217;s browser. You can use a mobile bookmark to quickly and conveniently access the Yahoo! mobile site on your [...]
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Unfazed by Microsoft Corp's   bid to acquire it, Yahoo Inc  launched a mobile phone  tool to let phone users share personal details from their  favorite Web services with friends in their address books.
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The browser company launched Tuesday its newest version of its mobile browser, redesigning the interface and improving overall speed.
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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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Yahoo&#39;s new Mobile Internet service lets users obtain localized search results on specific businesses, access maps, and make calls from the results page.