The heated competition for mobile handset search eyeballs may have reached the melting point of titanium now that a Nokia patent for visual search has been revealed.
Microsoft Releases Deepfish for Windows Mobile
A prototype browser called Deepfish arrived for the Windows Mobile platform, stirring up opinions that Microsoft may be more than a little concerned about not owning the dominant browser on mobile phones.
Yahoo Getting the Mobile Lead on Google
Yahoo has a bunch of efforts underway in the mobile space, and they’ve announced the launch of their new mobile ad network. I’ve been using the Yahoo! Go OneSearch mobile product for a couple of months now, and really have enjoyed it. It will be interesting to see how Yahoo’s mobile ad network grows as more publishers embrace the growing mobile space.
Google Playing Catch-up to Yahoo’s Mobile Efforts?
It’s not often you get to suggest that Google is playing “catch-up” to a competitor, so I’m sure the headline above will bring a wry smile to the folks at Yahoo.
Humor aside, it does appear that Google’s blog post, announcing their expansion of features for Google Mobile, is in reaction to Yahoo’s oneSearch initiative.
Google’s New Mobile Variant
Google released a new mobile search engine additional to their existing mobile search.
Yahoo Unveils Major Mobile Initiative
Yahoo’s not screwing around with the mobile market. Judging from the string press releases coming out of Sunnyvale, they mean business. The company launched a major initiative today across 19 countries, called Mobile Publisher Services, to better enable content providers to distribute and monetize their wares.
And of course, Yahoo gets a nice chunk of that pie.
Yahoo’s All-In-One Mobile Product
I noticed this week that at some point Yahoo released a version of its Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 that works on my wife’s T-Mobile SDA phone (a version for my MDA is forthcoming, they tell me). Naturally, I downloaded it and checked it out, and I like what I see. First impressions:
MapQuest Upgrades Mobile Service
Don’t like to get lost? MapQuest has announced upgrades to its "Send to Cell’ service that will allows users to create driving directions and maps at their PC and send them to any Web-enabled cell phone.
Broadband Users Not Fans Of Mobile Internet
When it comes to a preference of devices for US broadband users the PC is by far the most popular choice with 94 percent favoring their desktop, while 40 percent use their laptop and only 5 percent use the mobile Internet according to Media-Screen.
Mobile users can be broken down into three categories: those who access the Internet from mobile devices (5%), those who have Internet mobile devices but don’t use them to go online (58%) and those who don’t have Internet enabled mobile devices (36%).
AOL Challenges iPhone With Mobile Winamp
AOL is set to launch a new mobile product next week that will allow users to connect to their PC-based music collections from their mobile phones. An extension of the hardly noticed Winamp Remote PC-to-PC media streaming service that launched earlier, the PC-to-mobile service, in effect, turns a mobile phone into a MP3 player.