IP Democracy: More on Yahoo!'s Go Service

Yahoo! officially unveiled its Go service today with Terry Semel’s keynote presentation at CES. Go covers three new areas of Yahoo! service distribution: mobile devices, TV sets and desktops.

Go Mobile connects mobile phones with Yahoo!’s service and “integrates the company’s familiar communications services with the phone’s built-in e-mail, messaging, address book and calendar applications.” Go Mobile is launching with AT&T and Cingular in the U.S. and with Nokia in international markets. Yahoo also separately announced that Motorola phones will come pre-installed with Yahoo! ready applications.

AT&T will also synch up with Yahoo! with a co-branded AT&T Yahoo! Go Mobile service aimed at letting the nation’s largest DSL provider take their broadband experience with them on Cingular phones.

The second part of Yahoo!’s announcement is Go TV, which won’t launch for a few months. Go TV is a downloadable software platform for PCs connected to TVs that allows users/viewers to access Yahoo! services on the TV set. Go supports Internet video search, Yahoo! video viewing, PVR functionality, photo viewing and access to My Yahoo! (One question here: how many people know how to connect their PCs to their TVs?)

Yahoo is working with Intel to make its services available on media devices, including mobile devices, powered by Intel’s Viiv technology.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on January 6, 2006 2:02 PM to IP Democracy