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Yahoo’s CEO Launches a New Service to Benefit its Users

January 8, 2006

Yahoo Chairman and CEO Terry Semel launched a new service on Friday which will connect its users to all of their Yahoo internet based services through multiple devices.

The service, comprised of the Yahoo Go Desktop, Yahoo Go Mobile and Yahoo Go TV interfaces, will serve up all of a user's Yahoo content, such as photos, e-mail and address books, no matter what device a consumer is using as long as it is connected to the Internet, Semel said during his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Yahoo's new ‘Go Service' automatically knows which device is being used to access the service and will bring up the appropriate interface. Yahoo's services can bring the experience of Internet-based media and services to a plethora of devices that manufacturers are building.

Yahoo Go will help solve some of the problems that is generally faced by people. One problem that is faced by the people in general is that if a person loses his mobile phone, he would also lose all of his contact information for friends because he loses the ability to memorize phone numbers. With Yahoo Go, this problem is solved, because all of a Yahoo Go user's information is stored on the Internet through the Yahoo network so even if somebody loses his cell phone, he could still access his contacts from another device that can connect to the service.

Also, many users of camera cell phones have no idea how to remove their photos from the device, a problem that Yahoo Go Mobile solves letting users upload photos automatically from the device to a Yahoo Photos Web Page.

Source: IDG News Service