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A new Internet search system for mobile phone users was announced by Yahoo thus putting Yahoo one step forward of what Google can offer. The system delivers locally relevant answers.

Marco Boerries, senior vice president of Yahoo's Connected Life business unit said: "We are now putting search on every mobile phone that has a browser. We are delivering the results consumers want with just one search, not a list of Web links.

Medio Systems Inc. followed others and announce a performance-based ad-serving network for on-deck as well as for off-deck activity.

Amp'd Mobile Inc. the first service provider who is going to use the offering will do their job by tracking user demographics, click-though histories and "behavioral trending analysis" and deliver respective marketing messages.

Frengo announced some new games and text messaging services available to increase the mobile experience. The services Frengo announced make it possible to communicate with people on a social network, without sitting in front of a computer and having at your disposal a selection of games, contests, and messaging features that members can take everywhere they go.

Frengo makes a usual cell phone something that is fun, a device for entertainment specifically for groups of friends where members can easily interact, plan and compete.

Harris Interactive has conducted a research and found that consumers are open to receiving advertisements on their cell phones. The research covers current levels of consumer interest in mobile phone advertisements, preferences and the willingness of consumers to be profiled. It emerged that 35 percent of adult cell phone users are willing to accept incentive-based advertisements such as 78 percent said the best incentive would be cold hard cash, free entertainment downloads and discount coupons.

According to the announcement of TiVo and Verizon Wireless they say about the availability of TiVo Mobile scheduling. This time it’s a downloadable application giving subscribers the possibility to use select mobile phones to schedule recordings on their TiVo Series2 or Series3 TiVo boxes. At the same time subscribers to the TiVo Mobile scheduling service get access to premium entertainment content that is updated daily.

Virgin Mobile announces the Kyocera Marbl clamshell to appear in the United States markets. This device is basic, very ordinary cell phone without any MMS, camera, MP3 ringtones features. The device has a speaker phone, a WAP browser and SMS. The Kyocera K132 will be able to access ringtones, games and mobile content from MTV and Comedy.

The price of the Marbl is expected to be 30$.

Espoo, Finland - Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, and Glu Mobile, a leading global publisher of mobile games, announced today that Glu will be publishing a selection of mobile games and content on the N-Gage platform. Glu's portfolio of top-rated games includes original titles like Super K.O. Boxing!, Stranded and the Ancient Empires franchise, as well as titles based on major brands from Atari, Harrah's, Hasbro, Microsoft, PlayFirst, PopCap Games  and Sony.

BenQ Mobile is through a tough time now, as the Munich-based company will be divided and sold. It is a result of a failure that happened after they acquired from Siemens AG. Although, it’s absolutely not a surprise, but rather a logical end, as the attempt suffered through an investigation into its bankruptcy filing.

The administrator announced that there would be "no realistic chance" to sell off BenQ Mobile as a whole.

On the 3GSM show of new Windows Mobile 6 wares in the form of the Vox and the Advantage, Taiwanese Windows Mobile ODM presented its "Gene" (its model number GENE100).

The specifications are like this - data with quadband EDGE, the camera is just a 2 megapixel unit, usual Bluetooth 2.0, 128MB of ROM, 64MB of RAM, and QVGA display with a 201MHz TI OMAP850.

Google Maps is available to users of Windows Mobile devices. Google Maps supports starting with Windows Mobile 2003 and higher. Maps give users the possibility to interact with maps and satellite images, also to find point-to-point directions and find businesses or other points of interest. It's also a good feature for Windows Mobile 5.0 phones that are enabled with GPS, Google Maps automatically shows where the user is on the map with a flashing blue dot.