Filed under: Video, Windows, Web services, Yahoo!
Yahoo! goes mobile, TV
by Jordan Running Jan 6th 2006
Today
Yahoo! announced Yahoo! Go, a new set of products
for PCs, TVs, and mobile devices. Yahoo! Go Desktop is "a suite of services to PCs that do not rely on a
browser, essentially bringing all the Yahoo apps and services on the desktop," including a Dashboard app that
sounds similar to Google Desktop and, I'm guessing, will include Yahoo! Widget
Engine, formerly Konfabulator. Yahoo! Go TV will "make entertainment-related services available on any
PC-connected TV through a small downloadable app," including video search, photo slideshows, movie information and
trailers, and content from CNN and MTV. Yahoo! Go Mobile will include "Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Photos,
calendar, address book, Web and image search, news, sports and finance" for mobile apps and will be preloaded on
Nokia Series 60 from Cingular and AT&T in the U.S., as well as 10 countries worldwide. PaidContent.org has more info on Yahoo! Go as
does the Yahoo! Go site..
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
