Saturday, January 12, 2008

Yahoo has an answer

Emulating Google, Yahoo has lived up its competition with it for the mobile-phone users across the globe. Yahoo has unveiled a new version of its mobile phone home page and it also offers software tools to independent programmers who intend to create features for their handsets.In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, an industry agenda-setting conference taking place in Las Vegas this week, the Yahoo co-founder will highlight a series of enhancements the company is making to its Internet services to optimize them to run on hundreds of millions of existing mobile phones.Yahoo wants to play a very big role in these new markets while being the major internet service provider. after receiving few setbacks in the web search and advertising arena, Yahoo plans to usher in the mobile market with a view to re captivate its glory.
Some of the other services that Yahoo is planning to initiate is a new (trial version) Yahoo.com home page that would be optimized to cater to the mobile phone users and its layout and the content would be different from those meant for computer users.Yahoo also announced an upgraded version of Yahoo Go, a bundle of services pre-installed on some phones made by Samsung, Nokia and Motorola.

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