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Announced at Mobile World Congress in February, Yahoo! Mobile for the Web is now available across more than 300 devices with HTML-enabled mobile browsers by visiting http://new.m.yahoo.com, while the Yahoo! Mobile iPhone app is now available in the Apple iPhone App Store. Both are currently available in eight countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, with additional localized versions expected to launch over the next several months. Additionally, the company will preview the soon-to-be-launched Yahoo! Messenger app for the iPhone.

Yahoo! Mobile offers an open environment within which consumers can bring together their favorite content and services from across the Internet. The new Yahoo! Messenger application will provide iPhone users in the U.S. with the industry’s leading messaging experience. Features include the ability to send and receive instant messages, exchange photos, add contacts, change status, send emoticons, and stay logged in an idle state when using other applications on the iPhone. In addition to this standalone iPhone application, Yahoo! Messenger is also available within Yahoo! Mobile (both for the Web and iPhone) and as an application on several other types of mobile devices from leading manufacturers.

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Yahoo! launches their Go application version 3.0.47 and allows you to enjoy the best of the Internet on your phone for free — such as send email, upload photos, download maps, get stock quotes, and get breaking news. This new version of Yahoo! Go includes support for the BlackBerry Bold.

Yahoo! Go now runs on over 330 phones worldwide, including many Windows Mobile Devices. You can download the free software at http://mobile.yahoo.com/go.

If you are a BlackBerry Bold user, and have tried this software, please share your feedback here.

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T-Mobile USA is introducing web2go, providing customers with better Web browsing, improved search with Yahoo! oneSearch, a customizable home page and a simplified shopping and download experience. The new service allows its subsribers to visit virtually the entire Internet from their mobile phone, ensuring Web pages are easy to view and navigate. You can also browse and purchase the latest ringtones, games, wallpaper and mobile optimized applications and services to customize their phone. Further, a My Downloads feature enables certain applications, games and content that customers purchase to continue to be available to them when they upgrade to new phones.

Yahoo! oneSearch powers mobile Internet searches made through T-Mobile web2go, available starting today on T-Mobile phones. Providing customers with access to the latest news, information and content, Yahoo! oneSearch intuitively returns search results grouped around the person’s intent. For instance, when customers search for a sports team, Yahoo! returns the latest scores, schedules, team profiles, roster, news, images and a link to the team’s Web site. Alternatively, if a user searches for a movie, Yahoo! returns show times at local theatres, reviews, news articles and information on the cast.

Yahoo! oneSearch will also display relevant ringtones, wallpaper, games and other content available in the T-Mobile store within search results, eliminating the need for customers to search within a separate window for downloadable content.

Web2go is available today across the majority of new T-Mobile phones, including most Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry handsets. This enhancement is automatic for T-Mobile customers with compatible phones. T-Mobile plans to make web2go available on nearly all new T-Mobile phones over the coming months.

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Yahoo! today unveiled Yahoo! onePlace - a mobile content management solution.

Yahoo! onePlace will bring together a consumer's interests and important information into a single location. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept current, and served to them the way they want.
For example, if a user is planning a holiday to Paris in June, he could create a "Paris" collection, and begin linking it to any information he thinks will be useful to him on his trip: weather conditions, city guides, restaurant reviews, hotel reservations, walking maps, songs of Edith Piaf, English-French dictionaries, winery recommendations, etc.

ahoo! onePlace will give consumers a single location to consume all of their information contextually, keeping it updated (so they know, for example, if their flight times have changed) and instantly accessible whenever and however they want it.

Yahoo! onePlace is designed to include the following features, which will allow consumers to:

* Centralized and open content management - Centralize and manage all the content they care about, from anywhere on the Internet, accessible from a single location and arranged to best meet their preferences. The product is also designed to allow consumers to link to any favorite content they've already personalized on the Yahoo! network (e.g., MyYahoo!, flickr, del.icio.us), or at other popular websites (e.g., Digg, Last.FM, reddit, Yelp).
* Personalized views - Enjoy their content based on their specific needs:
o Collections - Group content in a way that makes sense.
o Categories - Organize content according to commonly-used subjects (e.g., celebrities, local businesses, sports)
o Pulse - Stream updates relevant to users' content, such as flight status changes, new songs by a favorite music artist, or a restaurant review.
o Favorites - Surface the content a consumer uses most frequently.
o Dynamic updates - See previews for selected sources that are kept fresh throughout the day
o Mobile RSS reader - Use a mobile RSS reader integrated into Yahoo! onePlace
favorite feeds.
o Smart organization - Create a rich experience around a specific topic by grouping whatever content they find most useful.

Yahoo! onePlace is expected to launch, along with Yahoo! oneConnect, in Q2 2008

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Yahoo! today announced at CeBIT 2008 the upcoming availability of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for a number of European countries, as well as several new European-based widgets that will be accessible across Yahoo!'s mobile browser and client-based offerings.

Within the next two months, European users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be able to access localized services from new mobile widget development partners including:

-- Eurosport -- Football -- the number one news source for European football coverage;

-- XING -- a leading professional networking site;

-- eBay -- the world's largest online auction marketplace;

-- MySpace -- the number one social networking site in the world;

-- Dopplr -- an innovative application for keeping track of where your friends are

Yahoo! Go 3.0 is expected to be available in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK at the end of Q2 2008.

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Yahoo! to Release oneConnect in Q2 2008

Yahoo! oneConnect will be the first mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates communications tools - email, instant messaging (IM), text messaging (SMS), and social networks.


Yahoo! oneConnect includes the following features:

* Socially-connected address book - Provide users the capability to integrate activity from popular social networks and communities into their address book, keeping it always in sync.
* Integrated mobile messaging - Offer seamless integration of IM and SMS, including threaded conversations. Any messaging service will be able to use Yahoo! oneConnect's open APIs to plug into the application's messaging feature - enabling consumers to access a wide range of popular services, such as Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger.
* Status - Give consumers the capability to view their contacts by their most recent status updates on popular social networks, as well as update their own status on their favorite social networks
* Pulse - Provide consumers the functionality to see a dynamic overview of what friends are up to, including recent photos, their status, profile updates, and recommendations based on their most recent actions on popular social networks.
* Favorites - Keep the people consumers interact with most at their fingertips. Users will be able to set up messaging shortcuts to make reaching out as quick as possible.
* Social contact card - Allow users to aggregate the most relevant information on any given contact, including archives of past communications, detailed pulse history, and one-click ways to initiate communication.
* Innovative location-sensing technology - Provide new ways to locate, chat with, and exchange contact information with nearby Yahoo! oneConnect users. Proximity alerts will notify consumers when a contact enters their vicinity.
* An open communications platform - Give users the functionality to communicate via multiple communications tools - such as IM, SMS, and social networks.

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New Enhancements Deliver More of What Consumers Want: Intuitive Design, Open Content, Hyper-personalized Home Page

LAS VEGAS, (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced the launch of the all-new Yahoo! Go 3.0, Yahoo!'s flagship all-in-one mobile offering, in early beta at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008, further solidifying Yahoo!'s leadership position in delivering leading-edge mobile experiences to consumers worldwide. Thanks to the feedback from many of our Yahoo! Go 2.0 users, this new product is designed to deliver more of what consumers want, wherever however and whenever they want it. Yahoo! Go 3.0 takes mobile services to the next level with an upgraded and feature-rich user interface, a truly personalized start page and customizable access to consumers' favorite Internet brands and services through easy-to-use third-party widgets.

Consumers in the U.S. can download Yahoo! Go 3.0 (http://go.yahoo.com) on more than 30 mobile devices from major manufacturers worldwide and use it on most wireless networks. Over the coming months, Yahoo! Go 3.0 is expected to be available on hundreds of devices worldwide, accessible by hundreds of millions of users.

"Today's launch of Yahoo! Go 3.0 is a game-changing mobile development from Yahoo!. This new open environment provides consumers with a highly-compelling user experience and robust, personalized starting point to the mobile Internet. We are providing users with increased control over their experiences as well as increased choice in getting the content and services they want while on the go," said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!. "With our innovative mobile services like Yahoo! Go 3.0 and deep partnerships across the industry, we are focused on making the promise of the mobile Internet a reality for consumers around the world."

UPGRADED DESIGN

Yahoo! Go 3.0 offers an intuitive and rich design that makes efficient use of the phone's small screen and speeds consumers' ability to find the information they need on the mobile Internet. This enhanced experience is both visually stunning and highly functional, enabling consumers to easily navigate Yahoo! Go 3.0 through a choice of two views - either the traditional carousel or the new icon layout.

THE IDEAL STARTING POINT

The new Home widget for Yahoo! Go 3.0 is an innovative gateway for consumers to get where they're going on the mobile Internet. It offers an at-a-glance update of what's new since the last visit; such as how many new e-mails have arrived, upcoming calendar appointments, and new photos posted to Flickr by friends. The Home widget also includes a customizable collection of mobile snippets - previews of the user's favorite Web content - news headlines, weather conditions and more - to keep users updated while on the go. Also, it allows the user to get quickly where they want to go on the mobile Internet via Yahoo! oneSearch.

In related news, Yahoo! introduced a similar home page experience for select mobile browsers visiting http://beta.m.yahoo.com. (see release titled: "Yahoo! Redesigns Mobile Home Page to be the Essential Starting Point for Mobile Consumers" for more information)

GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT

For the first time ever, consumers can enjoy their favorite Internet content and services from leading mobile publishers within a single client on their phone. Later this week, consumers will be able to access widgets from eBay, MySpace and MTV by selecting them from the Widget Gallery in Yahoo! Go 3.0. The Widget Gallery will showcase both Yahoo! Mobile Widgets as well as a growing selection of widgets from third-party developers.

With the introduction of third-party mobile widgets, Yahoo! enables developers and publishers to bring their content and creativity to millions of mobile users with ease - thus enhancing users' choice and control over their mobile Internet experience. By satisfying consumer demand for relevant and personalized mobile experiences, Yahoo! Go 3.0 is expected to usher in a dramatic acceleration in the adoption of the mobile Internet.

Additional details on Yahoo!'s Mobile Widget Platform can be found in the accompanying announcement released today. (see release titled: "Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform to Enable Developers and Publishers to Build Applications with Instant Reach Across Hundreds of Devices" for more information)

Yahoo! Go 3.0 features display advertising from Yahoo!'s major global advertisers. Consumers can interact with these ads through functionality such as clicking to call the advertiser directly or to learn more information about the advertiser's offer.

For more information on Yahoo! Go 3.0, including the mobile devices supported, go to http://go.yahoo.com. Screenshots of Yahoo! Go 3.0 as well as Yahoo!'s complete CES 2008 press kit can be found at http://mobile.yahoo.com/newsroom.

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