Zook.in, which is very popular mobile answer service in India and which I first heard about by listening to the Kamla Bhatt show, is expanding internationally.

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Yahoo! announced at the ongoing CTIA Wireless 2009 event Yahoo! Mobile iPhone app is now available in the Apple iPhone App Store. It is currently available in eight countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, with additional localized versions expected to launch over the next few months.

The company will preview the soon-to-be-launched Yahoo! Messenger app for the iPhone as well. The new Yahoo! Messenger application will provide iPhone users in the U.S. with the industry’s leading messaging experience. Features include the ability to send and receive instant messages, exchange photos, add contacts, change status, send emoticons, and stay logged in an idle state when using other applications on the iPhone.

Yahoo! Mobile

Source: SlashPhone

Samsung today announced its new “TouchWiz Connected Mobile Applications”, a unique platform for “rich connected mobile application” widgets that will be designed to run on Samsung’s lineup of TouchWiz touchscreen phones. With this application, both developers and end users will be able create new widgets for the platform. Tools for professional developers will be made available through the Eclipse IDE.

Samsung will also offer developers the opportunity to sell these third-party applications via a new Samsung Rich Connected Application storefront. Yahoo, Google and AccuWeather.com have already jumped in to launch widgets for the platform. Apart from this, Samsung plans to start a web-based tool that will allow end users to create their own widgets based on user-specific RSS feeds, and possibly even other custom content.

Source: PhoneScoop

Opera Software and Yahoo! have recently announced that they have partnered to bring the Opera Mini mobile Web browser, plus full Internet, to a lot more mobile phone users around the world. Yahoo! will be distributing Opera Mini through its Yahoo! Mobile service and also as a standalone download form Yahoo!’s mobile Web sites. The Opera Mini will be available free of cost on Yahoo!.

Yahoo! and Opera aim to fully release the potential of mobile Web by giving the user complete access to full Internet on a wide range of mobile devices. Yahoo!’s free distribution of the Opera Mini will provide users with a rich mobile Internet browsing experience.

Yahoo! Mobile And Opera Mini Enter Into Partnership