14 DAY TRIAL // Yahoo!, the global Internet services company, announced today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the new Yahoo! oneConnect service, set to revolutionize mobile communication in the same way Yahoo! oneSearch revolutionized mobile search back in 2007.
Yahoo! oneConnect will be the first service for mobile devices with an open architecture that assembles communications tools like e-mail, IM (instant messaging), social networks and text messaging (SMS) for a new and enhanced level of convenience in communications.
"Last year we set out to reinvent mobile search with Yahoo! oneSearch, and today with 29 operator partnerships around the world covering more than 600 million subscribers, we believe we have certainly succeeded," declared Marco Boerries, Executive vice President, Connected Life, Yahoo!. "Now, we intend to reinvent mobile communications through Yahoo! oneConnect, a revolutionary new mobile communications service that will combine integrated mobile messaging with a socially-connected address book."
Yahoo! oneConnect will come with many useful features, including: Socially-connected address book, to provide users with the capability of integrating activities from social networks, professional networks or popular communities into their address book; Integrated mobile messaging, for easy integration of IM and SMS (consumers will be able to use a wide range of services like Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Google Talk and AOL Instant Messenger); Innovative location-sensing technology, for easy ways to locate Yahoo! oneConnect users, as well as to chat and exchange contact information with them.
Furthermore, Yahoo! oneConnect will have widgets, offering users the capability to access email from most of the important email providers (Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, MSN Hotmail and AOL Mail). Also, other features like Status, Favorites, Social contact card and Pulse will help consumers to benefit from one of the best mobile communication services.
After its release, planned for the second quarter of 2008, Yahoo! oneConnect should become available across a wide range of devices and mobile browsers all over the globe. Currently, the service can be previewed on its official web page, at this address.
