Yahoo announced on Tuesday that its mobile search service will be offered by six more telecom companies in Asia. It has reached 60 partnerships so far which represents a potential user base of 600 million subscribers. (Source: Reuters)
Considering that over 3.3 billion people in the world own a mobile phone (in 2007), that means that Yahoo! has the immediate potential to reach almost 20% of the world’s mobile users.
Below is a concept video of Firefox Mobile, currently being developed by Mozilla Labs. You really need to watch it, note that the final version may not look like what is presented here but it does explains the directions Mozilla is thinking in : touch screen interface, large screen, hidden controls while browsing, and more.
Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
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So on Monday I mentioned that a mobile search company was about to launch a mobile game search service. It’s now formally official, the company in question is abphone, a mobile content search engine based in France.
abphone may have a low profile but it’s currently a very popular off-portal mobile content search engine, users can easily find and images or videos, and download them for free on their mobile phone.
In April 2008, abphone said that is reached half billion searches.
Today, abphone adds a new vertical: mobile games. For this beta launch, the mobile search company has partnered with Gameloft to index its entire catalog of premium games (about 200) and make it accessible via a search box.
This is the first mobile search engine that allows people to find cell phone games.
abphone has also indexed free mobile games from Greystripe.
The service is only available in France so far, but more countries will be added in the near future as well as more mobile game providers’ catalogs (paid and free ones).
Like other mobile content search engines, the indexing of games is made via XML feeds. Rankings are based on relevance, but also on some factors such as ratings or popularity.
Below is a demonstration of the user interface.
Premium games are displayed on top of the search result pages.
A link to the free games (“jeux gratuits” in french) search results page is displayed at the bottom.
A content page, with information such as user ratings, comments and number of downloads.
abphone is available at this address from a mobile device: http://m.abphone.com
A well known mobile search company will announce tomorrow the launch of the first mobile games search service. What I can tell you is that this will be a threat for big branded mobile search players such as Google or Yahoo!
It’s already possible to search for off-portal mobile content such as wallpapers, ringtones or MP3s from a mobile phone, but mobile games search was an untapped service until now.
More information will be posted on Wednesday on this blog so make sure to come back if you’re interested in this area.