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08 January 2006

Yahoo goes further with mobile

Congratulations, Yahoo.

I've played with the Series 60 Yahoo!Go app and it's pretty nifty, especially if you have a Yahoo account. It does a really fast and good job of synching calendar and contacts info, among other nice tricks.

The underlying tech comes from Marco Boerries's company VerdiSoft, which was purchased by Yahoo in 2005. That was a quick integration and I think Yahoo!Go is the right philosophy. With your data everywhere and needed on multiple devices, Yahoo!Go handles the synch (never easy) and storage of all of it.

And we thought Google was getting grabby. This just will cement Yahoo's importance in (450 million!) users' lives.

Best of luck.

BTW, Marco is head of Yahoo's Connected Living division and is bossman to my old bossman Christian Linholm. Christian has more on Yahoo!Go and a link to download the mobile app on his pages here.

Link: Yahoo goes mobile | CNET News.com.

Yahoo Go Mobile, which the Internet company launched Friday, is a set of communications and media applications, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Photos, calendar, address book, Web and image search, news, sports and finance.

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