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Telecommunications Yahoo! aims to rule mobile messaging | Yahoo! aims to rule mobile messaging |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 13 February 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 Yahoo! oneSearch is billed as "a search experience specifically designed for the mobile phone that delivers relevant results and instant answers in a user-friendly interface, removing the need for consumers to navigate through a sea of PC Web links." In the year since its launch, Yahoo! has announced partnership agreements with around 30 mobile operators who between them have more than 600 million mobile subscribers. Yahoo! has given no indication of actual uptake by end users. It has however, just announced an agreement with T-Mobile International that, it says, "sets the stage for Yahoo! oneSearch to become the exclusive mobile search service for T-Mobile customers in their 11 European markets beginning at the end of March 2008." Now, Yahoo! oneConnect has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It is expected to become available on Yahoo! Go 3.0 and Yahoo!'s new mobile home page in Q2 2008. It will, according to Yahoo!, be "the first mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates communications tools – email, instant messaging, text messaging and social networks – for a new level of convenience in mobile communications." Yahoo! says it expects Yahoo! oneConnect to become available across hundreds of devices and mobile browsers around the world. |
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