Y! Phone?!
I’m not sure how this has stayed off of my radar, let alone the rest of the Tech sector’s. I was reading an article about Who Needs a Quad Core PC when I noticed a little link at the bottom Is Yahoo Working On A Cell Phone. The title alone came as a complete shock, but when I read the article and found out that Michael Arrington had posted about this on CrunchGear, I was shocked that more of the blogs that I frequent hadn’t at least commented on the topic. While the link in the article for the Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times Newspaper is no longer working, I’ll include this chunk from the InformationWeek post (that was from the NWI Times article):
Yahoo will open the center with 120 employees and has said it plans to add more. Most of the first employees will come from a pool of workers left behind by Motorola Inc. when the cell-phone maker closed a software design center on campus earlier this month.
Yahoo plans to put most of its new hires to work developing better ways to use data the company gathers on its users to refine its search technology and its ability to target users for advertisers, Ojjeh said.