Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm     by Sue Spradley       Home         Topics: Main | VoIP | Wireless | Undersea Cables | Security | IPTV | MSOs | CDNs  | Ethernet | Mergers  | Financials  | People  | Europe | Canada | China | Japan | Korea | India | Latin America | Archive   Yahoo! Debuts "oneConnect" Mobile App Yahoo! announced its "oneConnect" service for aggregating mobile communications tools -- email, instant messaging (IM), text messaging (SMS), and social networks. Yahoo! oneConnect is expected to become available in the Yahoo! Go 3.0 and Yahoo!'s new mobile home page in Q2 2008. Key features of Yahoo! oneConnect will include: Socially-connected address book - Provide users the capability to integrate activity from popular social networks, professional networks, and communities into their address book, keeping it always in sync. Consumers will be able to view status updates, photo uploads, and the recent activity ("pulse") of contacts across all their networks. Integrated mobile messaging - Offer seamless integration of IM and SMS, including threaded conversations. Any messaging service will be able to use Yahoo! oneConnect's open APIs to plug into the application's messaging feature - enabling consumers to access a wide range of popular services, such as Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger. Status - Give consumers the capability to view their contacts by their most recent status updates on popular social networks, as well as update their own status on their favorite social networks - in one easy step - and automatically broadcast it to their friends. Pulse - Provide consumers the functionality to see a dynamic overview of what friends are up to, including recent photos, their status, profile updates, and recommendations based on their most recent actions on popular social networks. Favorites - Keep the people consumers interact with most at their fingertips. Users will be able to set up messaging shortcuts to make reaching out as quick as possible. Social contact card - Allow users to aggregate the most relevant information on any given contact, including archives of past communications, detailed pulse history, and one-click ways to initiate communication. Location-sensing technology - Provide new ways to locate, chat with, and exchange contact information with nearby Yahoo! oneConnect users. Proximity alerts will notify consumers when a contact enters their vicinity. Yahoo! said it is pursuing an open communications platform , allowing users the functionality to communicate via multiple communications tools - such as IM, SMS, and social networks. Widgets will provide users the capability to access their email across major email providers, such as Yahoo! Mail, MSN Hotmail, Gmail, and AOL Mail. Additionally, Yahoo! is in discussions with DataViz, a company that allows mobile users to access their corporate Microsoft Exchange email accounts and Microsoft Office, documents, to work together on widget versions of its RoadSynch and "Documents To Go" applications. http://mobile.yahoo.com 12-Feb-08     Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site Recent Service Provider News BT Revenue Declines as Profit Increases 7/29/2010 AT&T Selects Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, and Juniper for IP/MPLS/Ethernet/EPC Domain 7/29/2010 France Telecom Reaches 182 million Customers Accesses 7/29/2010 Portugal Telecom Selects Alcatel-Lucent's HLN Strategy 7/28/2010 Telefónica gains control of Brazil's Vivo 7/28/2010 Sprint Nextel Adds 111K Subscribers in Q2 7/28/2010 Wholesale Applications Community Sets Course 7/27/2010 Speedtest.net Ranks Comcast as Fastest U.S. ISP 7/27/2010 BT Employs "SmartWater" Invisible Paint to Deter Cable Theft 7/26/2010 Clearwire Sells WiMAX Operations in Ireland to Imagine 7/26/2010 Verizon Sees Continued Wireless Growth, Confirms LTE on Track for Q4 7/24/2010 AT&T U-verse Achieves First Billion-Dollar Revenue Quarter 7/23/2010 AT&T Adds Nearly 900,000 Connected Devices in Q2 7/23/2010 NTT Com Opens Data Centers in Vietnam and Singapore 7/22/2010 AT&T Posts Q2 Revenues of $30.8 billion, 3.2 Million iPhone Activations 7/22/2010 > More news...     Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton Does Network Neutrality Impact DPI? by James Brear