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Yahoo, in a another shot at Google, has debuted new features to simplify search functionality for mobile phone users.
In the latest version of its oneSearch service, the search engine company intends to enhance millions of web links accessible on phones and to enable users to employ voice commands to search the web. Yahoo has made deals with companies worldwide to reach a potential 600 million phone users with internet services.
The search technology, reported Yahoo Finance, will allow publishers to have greater control over how users are presented with their content. The new voice commands will let consumers go deeper than existing mobile voice recognition systems.
Yahoo appears to be pressing ahead with its mobile technologies as if Microsoft had not made an unsolicited takeover bid.
Some 46.1 million mobile data users in the U.S. used mobile search functions in the third quarter of 2007, according to a Nielsen Company report examining the mobile search behavior of wireless subscribers.
Broadcasting company Radio One has struck a deal to sell ads on hip-hop news site AllHipHop.com.
The agreement spans five years and gives Interactive One, Radio One’s digital division, exclusive access to AllHipHop’s ad inventory, writes MarketingVox. AllHipHop boasts five million…
Tribune Co.’s sale of Newsday to Cablevision allows Tribune and its new chairman, Sam Zell, to put $600 million in expected cash proceeds toward its roughly $13 billion debt. This buys Tribune Co. more time to implement plans to turn…
Apple’s new model of the iPhone, which will provide 3G access and faster data connection speeds, is imminent, if the shortage of the current model means anything.
Apple’s website announced yesterday that the company is out of stock on previous…
NBC’s unusual upfront garnered mixed reviews from the media crowd; some blamed the network for using the new format to draw attention away from a weak programming slate, while others liked the innovative format.
Yesterday’s upfront event drew advertisers through…
Sirius losses shrunk in the first quarter, while XM’s losses widened, the companies announced yesterday, in what they hope will be their last quarterly financial reports as stand-alone companies.
Sirius’s loss of $104 million was an improvement over last year’s…
Budget Travel magazine is allowing readers to frolic through its pages in a whole new way: nearly all of the text and photography of the June issue was generated by readers.
The magazine pulled in 2,800 pitches, for a final…
