Right now, Im in a Yahoo! press conference, where Yahoo! Connected Life Executive Vice President Marco Boerries is in the middle of unveiling Yahoo! Mobile, describing it as Your starting point to the Internet.
Yahoo mobile is, essentially a homepage for mobile browsing from where you can easily jump off to your favourite places. It comes pre-loaded with one-click links to popular services such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Yahoo! Maps, but users can also add their own. Users can either choose from a pre-populated list of popular widgets, or use the integrated Yahoo! oneSEARCH voice-activated search engine. When you get the results of your search, theres an option in the menu to add any returned site to the Yahoo! Mobile launcher. This extends to friends too. If you have someone you want to keep in touch with, you can add them to the launcher too, for one-click access to their social network updates. Another feature called Pulse aggregates all of your social network updates in one screen. Yahoo! mobile also inorporates Yahoo! oneCONNECT and onePLACE
Yahoo! mobile is available as a browser version, but also as a downloadable application for the iPhone and for Smartphones from Nokia, RIM (Blackberry), LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Windows devices. Boerries also revealed that an Android version will be released at some point. The mobile app doanload incorporate the Opera Mini mobile browser. The browser version is available initially as a private, invitation-only beta, with the full release, along with the iPhone app, due at the end of March. The Smartphone version ships at the end of May.

David Murphy
Editor