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iPhone and Android dominate, Yahoo apps, iPhone security flaw

Shane McGlaun — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:47:28 +0000

A new report from AdMob has been issued that shows the iPhone and Android are dominating the mobile web. The iPhone now serves 50% of all requests to the mobile web.

Yahoo has launched two new apps for the iPhone this week. The apps include one for finding restaurants that lets you draw a circle on the map and find all eateries in the area. The other app uses voice commands to conduct searches.

The iPhone, Safari and IE8 were all nailed with security holes during the Pwn2Own hacking contest. The hackers created a website for the iPhone that pulled the devices SMS database out when the user surfed the page.

Yahoo revamps its iPhone homepage, adds sync

Budi Putra — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:17:35 +0000

Yahoo unveiled a new homepage for the iPhone’s Safari browser and invites you to sync the modules (“My Favorites”) between the PC and your iPhone. It allows user to sync changes on the iPhone’s newly design site, and vice versa.

iPhone users can view the new home page at m.yahoo.com, which comes up with three tabs: “Today”, “My Favorites” and “All Sites”. These include Yahoo Finance, eBay, Facebook, MySpace, Maps, Messenger, and so on.

According to CNET, Yahoo is now prepping the native iPhone app of this sync functionality. [I hope Apple will not then remove it from App Store, due to "duplicating features that the iPhone comes with..." LOL!]

The Web giant claims one out of every two mobile users views its home page, and has 34 million unique users per month, according to recent Comscore data.

[via CNET]

Yahoo adds voice search to iPhone app

Budi Putra — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:44:18 +0000

Yahoo has added voice search capabilities to their Yahoo Mobile 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch. Google already added voice recognition to their iPhone search application on November last year.

“You’ll press the oneSearch field and see the large gray button prompting you to press and speak your inquiry,” CNET writes, adding that like most voice input systems, this one isn’t without its computational errors — especially in recognizing voice accurately.

Other features in YM version 1.1 including:

Instant Messaging
Share Photos
Stealth Settings
Custom status message
Recent conversations archive
Special idle state
Landscape keyboard mode
New “Report a Problem” feature

[via CNET]

Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone released

Budi Putra — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:54:46 +0000

Yahoo has released an official Yahoo! Messenger client for the iPhone, allowing iPhone users to use not only unofficial clients like Meebo or Fring to chat with their YM buddies. Compatible with iPhone (v2.0 or later) and iPod Touch.

Its features include:

IM with your YM friends.
Share photos, emoticons and links.
Show yourself as available, busy, or invisible.
Quickly access your most recent conversations.
Set a custom status message.
Send text messages to your friends mobile phones for free.
Quickly find a contact to IM, call, SMS or more.

Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone is now available on the App Store and you can download it for free.

[via NeoSeeker]