AT&T: Media Net Web Searches
Monday, September 8th, 2008
The latest carrier of North America is AT&T; it has teamed up with Yahoo, the Internet monster company based in Sunnyvale, California, in order to improve the Internet searching capabilities of its MEdia Net-enabled handsets. In outcomes, the subscribers AT&T was use the MEdia Net portal will notice, as of today, that the searches Web they make are performed by default through Yahoo! oneSearch.
As the 1st USA operator to integrate Yahoo! Mobile portal into its oneSearch, offering AT&T its customers all the profits of the service. The oneSearch from Yahoo will enable user to simply access websites (be them made for mobiles or not), financial information, weather forecasts, news, Web pictures (Flickr pictures also including) and so on. Can display the Yahoo service to related wallpapers, ring tones, games and other content of mobile – this eradicates users’ require opening a divide window in order to search for downloadable material. Furthermore, the information local search will be provided by AT&T’s Yellow pages service.
The vice- president of converged services at AT&T, Michael Bowling, said, “Our clients want mobile search to be to be intuitive and convenient, and Yahoo! oneSearch is an main step for us in delivering that stage of experience to them.”