Yahoo To Launch Go Intiative; Mobile, Connected TVs & Desktop Access

Yahoo is making its biggest bet yet outside its website: at CES, it is launching what it calls Yahoo Go (the site should go live here later), a series of mobile and connected TV-PC intiatives.

Yahoo Go Mobile is a set of communications and media applications, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Photos, calendar, address book, Web and image search, news, sports and finance. The services will be preloaded on Nokia Series 60 mobile phones and available in 10 countries worldwide, and available to Cingular and AT&T customers in U.S.

Yahoo Go TV, which will be available before April, will make entertainment-related services available on any PC-connected TV through a small downloadable app. The services include local and video search, including access to content from CNN and MTV, movie trailers, and other info from My Yahoo. The service will be free but will have ads.

Yahoo Go Desktop brings a suite of services to PCs that do not rely on a browser, essentially bringing all the Yahoo apps and services on the desktop.

– Yahoo will also add functionality to remotely program the recording of TV shows over mobile phones, and eventually offer music services through the TV

AP: Yahoo’s music and video services is not yet available through Yahoo Go Mobile but may be added later, the company said. Yahoo is also working with Motorola to bring Yahoo Go to those phones.

NYT has some more info, though needs more editing (my bandwagon today):

– It will offer a TV program guide, similar to those offered on digital cable services, but Yahoo’s version will include reviews and ratings of shows from its users.

– Yahoo’s software for TV’s will run on any computer that runs Windows XP and any of the forthcoming devices that use Intel’s new Viiv technology.

– On some Nokia phones, the Yahoo software will automatically synchronize information on the telephone with information stored on Yahoo’s Internet site.

– Similarly, if they take a photograph with a camera phone, the pictures will automatically be uploaded to Yahoo’s photo service

– Yahoo will introduce a program called Yahoo Go Dashboard that runs on the edge of a computer screen and displays a range of information.

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