New and improved, and ready to download today! Get ready to get your mobile application on because Yahoo just launched a new version of Go that brings users faster speeds, calendar and address books, better email, and more powerful maps.

Yahoo Go 2.0 has reduced data loading times which is not only good on your time, but also great on your data plan if you aren't on the unlimited. Some new tools to help in your day to day time management include the calendar and address book options. The address book even has 1 click to call functionality. As far as email is concerned, common attachments can now be viewed, including images, word, excel and pdf's. When you're on the go, mobile maps are a great feature. Yahoo had tied in GPS integration for select devices, which is going to be a great tool not only for local users, but for people who travel frequently.

We took a look at what Yahoo offered with Go Mobile when it first came out, and it still looks like Yahoo holds the top spot for universal mobile applications. We have also had the chance to use a version of Yahoo Go 2.0 just before they added all these goodies in, and it were extremely impressed with what it brought to the table. Look out for a full review on the new Yahoo Go 2.0 coming shortly.

Yahoo is once again directing its talent towards the online search world. This time around they are bringing their oneSearch technology to over one hundred million phones in the U.S.

oneSearch initially launched through Yahoo's successful Go for Mobile 2.0, providing its users an easy way to access and find information as quick as possible, and as of today its available to U.S users. Yahoo oneSearch drops in relevant content alongside search results. For instance, if users search for Pizza in New York, they are send back results for their destination, as well as other category suggestions, Flickr images relating to pizza, as well as pizza related websites, news articles, mobile pizza websites, web images, pizza products, and movies relating to pizza. With this comprehensive list, users are bound to find the content they are after quicker.

The oneSearch offering is currently only available to US users, but will be rolled out in additional countries and languages over the next few months. To use oneSearch on your mobile device, simply visit m.yahoo.com.

Full screen shot of a search result after the jump.

Yahoo! announced the release of the beta version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 in January, and now they have moved on to the Gamma version. I have been using this application on my Blackberry and RAZR since it came out, and I have been thoroughly enjoying it. It connects me instantly with my Yahoo! email, news feeds, weather reports, stock reports and Flickr photos, all through an intuitive interface. The new Gamma release brings with it the ability to search directly from maps and share oneSearch(TM) results and news with friends. Yahoo's oneSearch makes it easier to get results with one click, and supports hundreds of devices. The application will recognize what your intent was to type, and then provides users with the results for the most relevant answers for search queries. Through the oneSearch widget, you can check out what the hottest searches are in any given section. Given that this is out of Beta, I am assuming that it will be open for everyone to download this time around. Last round Yahoo! cut off the download shortly after it was released, apparently because they had filled all testing slots.

One thing I grit my teeth at: Yes, Yahoo!'s new mobile ads are appearing in certain sections of this version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0.

In a grand movement to take over the mobile search application space, Yahoo! recently launched Yahoo! Go 2.0 Beta. This slick new mobile application download allows users with a Yahoo account to quickly and conveniently connect to email, news, and photos. Yahoo! has pushed other all in one mobile applications to the side with this solution. Google's Gmail mobile is great to work with because of the minimal elements, but I was shocked at the ease of use and intuitive features the Go 2.0 beta has. The 597kb download took a few lengthy minutes to install on my Blackberry (might have been shorter, but I have to admit, I was getting a little impatient with the progress bar), and was set up in no time. Keep in mind that there are only certain phones that the Yahoo! Go 2.0 will support, with the full service provider and phone model list on the Go 2.0 website. Also, data charges will also apply for this service, and there really is no way to see how much data your are chewing through, but given the extreme use of imagery you can bet it's quite a bit. When the application was launched, it gave me what Yahoo has coined, a menu "carousel", filled with a widgetized menu system on the right, and the content displaying on the left side. (This might be different depending on your phone model. Some phones have the menu displayed along the bottom.)

When you choose a section from the carousel, the content area populates with your chosen data, targeted towards the location you have specified in your Yahoo! account when you signed up back in the day. The widgetized carousel list consists of One Search to search for anything online, including images and movie showtimes. You can view maps, city guides, traffic details and local happenings with Local and Maps. Yahoo emails can be pulled in with an easy to use and synced Yahoo! email inbox with all of your regular CC, BCC, Reply to all functions. Personal news feeds can be created to get the news you want when it happens. Sporting teams with sports headlines and tickers can be tracked. There is also a finance watchlist, market summaries, and financial news feeds straight from Yahoo's highly rated financial data service. You can get your Celebrity and entertainment gossip instantly. Weather can be checked out complete with pretty weather condition icons and forecast outlooks. Again, this is synced with your city profile so the weather for your area will show up instantly. As for images, Yahoo has integrated your Flickr account into the mix, making it easier to thumb through and show off your pictures while on the go. You can also search and connect with other photos in the Flickr database.

This is a nice big step by the Yahoo! team to boost up user interaction with their products in the mobile environment. Will Google and MSN bite back? If they do, they have some work ahead of them. Yahoo! really seems to have risen to the top with this clean and easy to use mobile application.

Yahoo! has just announced it's Yahoo to Go service on Windows Mobile smartphones (like the sleek Motorola Q). The application has been around on some Nokia phones for a while, and was previously announced to be pre-installed on some Motorola handsets next year. This release will expand the service to the millions of devices running Windows Mobile 2003 SE & 5.0.

The application brings together a set of Yahoo! services into a neat little package:

• Yahoo! Mail
• Yahoo! Search (Local, Web and Image)
• Yahoo! Photos
• Yahoo! Address Book and Calendar
• Yahoo! News, Sports, Finance

The download will be available tomorrow from the Yahoo to Go Mobile site - I wonder if it'll run on my old Dell Axim X5???

It figures... not long after switching my cellphone (but thanks to Y! Mobile for adding my model), Yahoo! and Motorola announce that the Yahoo! to Go service will be pre-installed on some of their handsets.

No word as to which models will get it, but we'll start seeing them in the first half of 2007.

Up to now, it's just been on some Nokia S60 phones, so this could expand the service quite significantly.

In what has to be one of the fastest app re-brandings in history, Yahoo!, which acquired media center software maker Meedio last week, has released Yahoo! Go TV, a free re-branded version of Meedio for Windows. Yahoo! Go has all of the features you'd expect to see in a media center, including music, videos, photos, and full-fledged DVR functionality, plus the ability to search Yahoo! videos and, of course, view photos on Flickr.

[Thanks, Ken!]