Yahoo! Announces Motorola Deal

Yahoo! announced today that they’ve inked a deal with Motorola to have Yahoo! services embedded on tens of millions of cell phones. The software system is branded as Yahoo! Go for Mobile, which is an integrated set of services that includes your Yahoo! e-mail, Yahoo! address book, and Yahoo! Search. This is going to be a bit different than the current Yahoo! Go platform (see above link), as this isn’t just making it easier to use Yahoo! services from your phone, they will already be there for you to use with a push of a button. If you Yahoo!, then you’re probably psyched. However, as a Google girl, it was the last line of the article that got my attention: "Yahoo rival Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) is racing to win similar positioning for its Web services through deals with handset makers and mobile carriers." A Google phone? Bring it on!