Published May 2nd, 2008 at 1:36 am in Telephony with no comments
Tagged with jajah, messenger, yahoo
Since 2006 users of Yahoo! Messenger can use the “Phone In” and “Phone Out” to make and receive calls from your PC to and from mobile phones and fixed.
Now JaJah was chosen by Yahoo! as external partner for its premium voice service. Thanks to “Phone In” and “Phone Out” Users can make phone calls to high-quality, low cost PC to phone and vice versa JaJah network to more than 200 countries using Yahoo! Messenger. This application of instant messaging is high on the preferences in the United States can count on nearly 97 million users worldwide.
“We know that the integration of internet services with voice services is important for our strategic partner, Yahoo!,” Said JaJah CEO, Trevor Healy. “We are honored to be chosen by Yahoo! in order to meet its needs for voice services. This collaboration will give us the opportunity to extend our global telephone service with an innovative industry leader able to build on the strength of our platform and our network. “
With this agreement JaJah detect the provision of telephone, payment procedures and customer service for premium voice users of Yahoo! using Yahoo! Messenger to call.
Published April 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm in Business with no comments
Tagged with onesearch, yahoo
Yahoo! has recently unveiled to the public oneSearch 2.0, the new version of its search engine for mobile devices. The improvements and new features introduced to allow users to search using the text or your own voice, and to obtain more detailed results. With this new product, Yahoo! aims to become the starting point in many mobile consumers. Marco Boerries, Executive Vice President of Connected Life Division Yahoo!, Said:
“With the launch of oneSearch in 2007, we revolutionized mobile search by recreating a specific tool for mobile devices, focusing on the answers and not just the links found on the web in just one year we signed 29 partnerships with operators around the world, covering more than 600 million users. With oneSearch 2.0 radically change the way people use the Internet on their mobile phones. ”
Yahoo! opens oneSearch to publishers and developers, giving them the ability to integrate content that will be displayed in the results of research. The new Open Search should provide a more detailed, giving you a broader picture.
Another remarkable novelty introduced by oneSearch 2.0 is the ability to search using just your voice. Users can search for anything: places, sites, restaurants and much more simply by speaking through a voice-recognition technology developed by vlingo.
Currently you can use the voice feature only in the United States and some Blackberry devices. In the following months the support will be extended to other mobile devices and will be expanded coverage of the service at the international level. Open Search functionality is expected by the end of the second quarter of the year, together with some features search assistant.