January 9, 2007
Mobile Internet Yahoo! style
LAS VEGAS: Yahoo!, the internet media company, chose the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to launch version 2.0 of its Yahoo! Go online application suite for mobile phones, which features a smart new ‘carousel-style’ interface designed to make it much easier for mobile phone users to access online information.
The application, which is device specific, will initially be available on Motorola’s flagship Motorazr maxx V6 and MOTORAZR V3xx handsets and will be available for about another 70 mobile devices from leading phone makers shortly.
Marco Boerries, in charge of Yahoo!’s Connected Life broadband division, said the service would be available for at least 400 mobile phone models by the end of the year and that it was also lining up deals with mobile carriers in the US and elsewhere to pre-load the software onto their handsets.
Yahoo! Go has widgets enabling Yahoo! email, location-based local information and maps, news, sports, finance, entertainment, weather, photo sharing and search.
