Nokia Partners with Yahoo on New Mobile Services

Mobile handset maker Nokia stated this Wednesday that it has extended its partnership with Yahoo to include the search giant’s services on a few selected set of Nokia phones.

The company would also begin rolling out the new Yahoo options with the Nokia 6300, 5200, and 5300 XpressMusic phones. The handsets would let users synchronize Yahoo available contacts, tasks, and calendar items, and will also connect to Yahoo Mail and Messenger.

Yahoo launches Mobile Social Networking Service

Yahoo had recently launched an experimental site, which offers mobile phone subscribers the power to send any text messages and also share videos and pictures with their friends. The service of Yahoo still follows the trend among Internet portals to offer mobile social networking services.

The service is basically centered on making it easy for friends group to use text messaging as a way to organize a party, meet in a restaurant, attend a football game or may be to arrange any other social activity.

Google on Airtel phones

Bharti Airtel and Google had recently announced a strategic partnership to offer wider mobile search.

According to a release issued by Bharti to the BSE, Airtel would bring Google search to the Airtel Live mobile with WAP portal. “Google would also include advertising through its Mobile Ads product on the Airtel Live mobile portal”, the release added.

Next Ambition is to go mobile – Google

Google search engine has been focusing its attention on the mobile market from past few years.

Google had come up with the new services designed exclusively for the small screen. Last January, it released the Google Personalized Home Page that lets people access Gmail, news, RSS feeds and much other information from their personalized Google home page on mobile phones and PDAs. This specific service is free for US and it also work with any phone that has an XHTML- capable web browser.

“Google sees great prospective for extending its presence throughout the world using the mobile platform”, said Deep Nishar, director of product management for Google.