Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Yahoo Unveils New Mobile Gadgets

On Tuesday, 4th March 2008, Yahoo Inc. introduced onePlace, a mobile service, or more precisely, a mobile content management tool, that allows user to keep their mobile information organized, up-to-date and personalized. It also allows mobile users organize their web content so all these contents can be accessed through the mobile browser on their phones or PDA as quickly as possible. The introduction of onePlace will mark another step forward in the M-Commerce era.

Below is a video regarding the new mobile gadget, onePlace by Yahoo.



Source from: youtube.com
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_YzM2DzWIyA

onePlace will create a link, or bookmark the web pages and the users will be able to organized those bookmarks according to category. It also provides a search engines for finding the bookmarks. By doing this, it will allow the user to access to the webpages in a faster way using their mobile browser. onePlace also allow user to create a links to personalized content on the Yahoo Network, such as MyYahoo, Flickr, and Del.icio.us. Other than that, onePlace also includes a mobile RSS reader, which enables user to read and subscribe to any of the blog feeds in the network.

"The tool is expected to launch along with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's upcoming mobile phone service oneConnect, in the second quarter." Marco Boerries, executive VP of connected life at Yahoo, during a press release.

With the introduction of Yahoo onePlace, will it be a competitors for google Android? Will it ever affect the launching of google Android as well? I guess, we will only be able to see the result once google Android is successfully launch, hopefully in the mid of June 2008. With the growing rate of M-Commerce, more and more mobile software in helping users will be introduced. Once again, Yahoo is competing with Google by introducing mobile gadgets.


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