Eight mobile technologies to watch

Research company Gartner has published a list of eight mobile technologies that it says will have an impact on mobile strategies and policies over the next couple of years:

1. Bluetooth 3.0,
2. User Interfaces,
3. Location Sensing,
4. 802.11n WiFi,
5. Display Technologies,
6. Mobile Web and Widgets,
7. Mobile Broadband and
8. Near Field Communication.

[Press release]

Yahoo! revamps 'Go' and invites third-party developers

Yahoo! is planning to help software developers put their applications on mobile phones. It’s opening up the Yahoo! Go mobile internet service to third-party developers, allowing them to create small 'widget' programs that’ll work on a variety of handsets without the need to write a new program for each device. In addition, the company has enhanced the service -now Yahoo! Go 3.0 Beta. [Source: Press releases and BBC News]