Archive for April 1st, 2009
Yahoo’s New Homepage Goes Live On Mobile Web; Available As iPhone App
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has officially rolled out its mobile homepage Yahoo! Mobile on the mobile web, and as an iPhone application. The service, first introduced in February at Mobile World Congress, replaces its old Yahoo! Go product and ties together its various mobile offerings into one place including its search product, Onesearch, its social networking product, OneConnect and its content management product OnePlace.
It also allows users to bring in outside applications?a big distinction from Yahoo Go, which only allowed in Yahoo products. Users, for example, can access Gmail or Hotmail, and not just Yahoo Mail. The mobile web version is supported by more than 300 devices, or those capable of supporting HTML-enabled mobile browsers. Both the web version and the iPhone version is available in eight countries, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. More country versions are expected to roll out over the next few months.
