Google & Yahoo gear up for a mobile war

Google has launched its Google Gears for Mobile browser extension for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, which allows users to access their web-based applications even when they are offline. This could mean that when there is no wireless access, or the network is experiencing delays, applications will still work.

The application won’t work with devices running Opera or other web browsers, however, which rules out the iPhone and some other devices.

Meanwhile, Yahoo has developed a new bookmarking tool, Yahoo onePlace, which keeps track of web favourites, such as news feeds, sites, images, video, etc from a single place on their mobile device. Yahoo onePlace will be available in the second quarter of 2008.

Source: ZDNet

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