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Yahoo! takes Go to version 3, releases widget platform
Yahoo's been taking it's mobile strategy pretty seriously over the course of the past couple years, having zoomed through two revisions of its Go portal app on multiple platforms. They've officially unveiled yet another major version today -- 3.0, to be exact -- featuring a new icon view (in addition to the old-school carousel view) and support for widgets. Widgets, you say? Yep, that's the real meat of today's announcements: Yahoo has opened the floodgates to third party development with its Mobile Developer Platform, promising a future rich with widgets that'll plug into Go and make it even meatier than it already is. eBay, MTV, and MySpace have already crafted widgets for the platform, too, so it's a promising start. Yahoo! Go 3.0 is available now for a wide variety of S60 and BlackBerry devices, and we're guessing that Windows Mobile will be following on shortly.Read - Yahoo! Go 3.0Read - Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform
Yahoo! GO 2.0 finally hits for Windows Mobile
Don't believe everything you see, while the "coming soon" logos are still plastered all over the device pics on the Yahoo GO 2.0 compatibility site, clicking through will get you to the goods. Yahoo's finally rolling out for all the Windows Mobile 5 -- and it does seem to work on Windows Mobile 6 pro, too -- for all you folks out there that are in need of Yahoo! search, push mail, Flickr, stocks, weather, and such. Install is a breeze, select your phone model, enter your number, and an SMS will arrive with a link to download the software. Follow the read link to get yourself started.[Thanks, Tech Luver]
A Day on a PC running Windows
Subtitle: I feel dirty.So today, the wireless was dead. All day, and with no cable or good spot for me to plug in my Powerbook. So, I used one of the many Dells available where I work. I'm running Firefox for the browser (so not too foreign) and Trillian for the chat. Gmail for email in Firefox, and RSS feed reading in Bloglines. Not horrible. Just trying to ignore the Windows bar and Start icon at the bottom. I even downloaded and tried Google's GTalk client. Pretty cool. I like it. Too bad they haven't bothered to code one for Mac yet. The situation is workable, but...I hate it. There's no Expose, which I keep trying to call up. There's no Spotlight. The Dell's keyboard doesn't have the nice solid feeling of my PowerBook's keys. I just don't like it, and I cannot believe that Russell switched back although I think that it is hilarious that Yahoo! launched Yahoo! Go! featuring a 12-inch PowerBook as the PC. *sigh* I love Mac-using graphics departments, and companies that greenlight things like this without realizing what they've done. It even has a Windows screen pasted in. So funny.
