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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share  —  While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.

via AppleInsider:

While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.


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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/billion_add-ons.png" width="494" height="275" style="display:block;" /Mozilla announced yesterday that they've served up their a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2008/11/19/1-billion-add-on-downloads/"emone billionth/em add-on/a since 2005mdash;and that only includes add-ons hosted on Mozilla's servers. Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird have earned a place in many of our hearts thanks to their extensibility, and the one billionth add-on milestone in conjunction with a href="http://lifehacker.com/5077227/firefox-browser-share-hits-20"Firefox earning 20% of the market share/a has us thinking: These crazy open-source/extension ideas just might work./p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=922233d7f17cf8f1e540a435724f6ff2p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=922233d7f17cf8f1e540a435724f6ff2p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=922233d7f17cf8f1e540a435724f6ff2" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=WLXB7d73"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=MacOttK6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=P9IYwARP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=P9IYwARP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=scSdT3O0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=scSdT3O0" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/NQot0EuKV00" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/billion_add-ons.png" width="494" height="275" style="display:block;" /Mozilla announced yesterday that they've served up their a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2008/11/19/1-billion-add-on-downloads/"emone billionth/em add-on/a since 2005mdash;and that only includes add-ons hosted on Mozilla's servers. Mozilla applications like Firefox and Thunderbird have earned a place in many of our hearts thanks to their extensibility, and the one billionth add-on milestone in conjunction with a href="http://lifehacker.com/5077227/firefox-browser-share-hits-20"Firefox earning 20% of the market share/a has us thinking: These crazy open-source/extension ideas just might work./p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=922233d7f17cf8f1e540a435724f6ff2p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=922233d7f17cf8f1e540a435724f6ff2p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=922233d7f17cf8f1e540a435724f6ff2" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=WLXB7d73"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=MacOttK6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=P9IYwARP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=P9IYwARP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com:80/~f/lifehacker/full?a=scSdT3O0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=scSdT3O0" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/NQot0EuKV00" height="1" width="1"/

Nearly one-in-five respondents say the release of the 3G has made their company More Likely to purchase Apple products in the future...

While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker#39;s lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.

When Fortune Small Business last met with Julie and Barry Karp ("Lure 'Em to Shore," February 2008), their Glendale, Wis., travel business, ShoreTrips, was seeking to boost market share in the cruise ship tour business. Revenue increased 56%, to $7.5 million, in 2007, but the Karps were convinced they needed to find more profitable new customers. pa href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?a=UGWx4t"img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/money_latest?i=UGWx4t" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_latest/~4/459655509" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48bd7ebd14b9b9a2006cf153maxX=320maxY=271" border="0" alt="ChromeScreen.png" title="ChromeScreen.png" width="320" height="271" /Google's (GOOG) Chrome Web browser has settled down to around 0.7% market share, according to the latest stats from a href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0"Net Applications/a. Sad./p pWhat could boost that? One thing people have asked for since Google introduced Chrome this summer: An add-ons platform so developers could write nifty plugins, toolbars, extensions, etc./p pProof that's important: Mozilla said yesterday that Firefox users have now downloaded a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2008/11/19/1-billion-add-on-downloads/"1 billion/a Firefox add-ons. We don't know how many add ons-per-Firefox download that equals, but we bet it's at least a couple./p pMoreover, we bet it follows the 80/20 rule -- 20% of Firefox users have probably downloaded 80% of the add-ons. And those are the exact, geeky people whom Google should be courting./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/google-s-era-of-youtube-like-experiments-is-over"Google's Era Of YouTube-Like Experiments Is Over/abr /a href="../../2008/11/google-hawking-chrome-overseas-on-youtube-goog-"Google Hawking Chrome Overseas, On YouTube (GOOG)/abr /a href="../../2008/10/google-chrome-yet-another-google-dud-share-continues-to-slip"Google Chrome Yet Another Dud: Share Continues To Slip/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SjRGh1Yg7ovUSFo-AjVxyn8fPGY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SjRGh1Yg7ovUSFo-AjVxyn8fPGY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=m9O8Mu38"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=m9O8Mu38" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=3E0PD8at"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=y0dynpYa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=CrAqqRof"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=CrAqqRof" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=BTpId4d6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Jny7KNS3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=7Uyhrc0W"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=9Bjj2qXN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/CCj-5yhjxes" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/neuros.jpg" width="807" height="463" style="display:block;float:none;" /Neuros, who built their reputation with weird, chunky (but wonderful) a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/20/review_neuros_ii/"modular MP3 players/a, has long since moved exclusively to the a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/neuros"home entertainment field/a. Their latest attempt at eroding the Apple TV's market share is the Link, a set-top streaming box that will pull video from a wide range of online TV sources mdash; Hulu, NBC, ABC, etc. mdash; as well as stream local audio and video content from any USB hard drive. As is always the case with Neuros set-tops, the Link's software is open source and ready for modification. This time, mercifully, that might not be the box's biggest draw./p pWith the Neuros.TV interface, the Link does something simple but spectacular. Instead of pushing you through a clumsy series of web portals, it gives you a simple, unified interface for browsing online video content. With out-of-the-box support for nearly any video codec (courtesy of mPlayer and VLC, mainly), a solid interface and an included wireless keyboard/controller, it's a capable machine. At $299 (or $249 without the keyboard), it'll be tough to take on the $229 Apple TV, which in addition to having an included local hard drive and access to iTunes, supports most of Neuros.TV's features a href="http://gizmodo.com/5082130/how-to-max-out-apple-tvs-potential-with-boxee"though Boxee/a. Spec sheet below. [a href="http://www.neurostechnology.com/neuros-link"Neuros/a via a href="http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-11/neuros-unveils-next-gen-hardware/"Zatz/a]/p blockquote pTechnical specifications/p p* 1080p H.264 video playbackbr * HDMI (max resolution 1920x1200, 1080p) outputbr * High-definition 6-channel Audio outputbr * Optical S/PDIF audio outputbr * Gigabit Ethernetbr * 802.11 g/b WiFi, up to 54Mbpsbr * Lots of USB 2.0 High-speed Ports (6 external ones today)br * Housing: 300mm x 90mm x 326mm (11.8" x 3.5" x 12.8")br * Noise: under 27dBbr * Controller: 2.4 GHz wireless keyboard trackball controllerbr * Software:br o Seamless integration with Neuros.TV, a free service that lets you organize and watch Internet TV on your TVbr o Neuros distribution of Ubuntu 8.10br o Open-source video players (MPlayer, VLC, Xine). A comprehensive list of formats, containers and media can be found on the above websites./p /blockquote br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9fee2428f2caf5d805c8a0e3e57f21b4p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9fee2428f2caf5d805c8a0e3e57f21b4p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9fee2428f2caf5d805c8a0e3e57f21b4" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=xOBLwoE5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=pg1RkNNl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Xw5bnRJc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=Xw5bnRJc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=m7keGmIl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=m7keGmIl" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/un2VlHCiUJA" height="1" width="1"/

pMicrosoft (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MSFT" class="ticker" title="MSFT"NSDQ: MSFT/a) just added some a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe" title="lagniappe"lagniappe/a to its Zune Pass music subscription: effective now, 10 tracks a month can be downloaded for keeps. It's a nice gesture for subscribers—I am one so can attest to that—but it's also a very real PR effort to goose interest in the subscription model. To expand the $14.99 monthly subscription, the company crafted new payment agreements with all four majors—EMI, Sony, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group—and indie distributors INgrooves, Independent Online Distribution Alliance and The Orchard. Microsoft values the tracks at approximately $10 (not in the confusing conceit of Zune Marketplace points), which would take the cost of the actual subscription to about $5 a month for those who make all the permanent downloads. /p p -- bLiner notes/b: The 10 permanent tracks can be burned to CD or moved to other devices even after the subscription ends. The Zune Pass currently allows subscription sharing between three PCs and three Zunes. An updated version of Zune's software started distribution Tuesday. Sony BMG and UMG also agreed to provide DRM-free MP3s, joining EMI, WMG and some of the indie labels. Microsoft says Zune's library soon will offer 90 percent of its music as MP3s. /p p -- a href="http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i76e9c2805e7a26bb55b59878fd89e7c3" title="Billboard"Billboard/a: "To make the offer, the Zune team had to rework its existing licensing deals with labels so that it now provides a certain percentage of the Zune Pass subscription fee to all labels based on market share, and then allocates a separate payment to each label based on what music is downloaded for good." br / /p piSocial Media Deals Report: This 199-page report, filled with charts and data, examines the categories, number and size of VC and MA deal in social media from 2007 through 2008. stronga href="http://www.paidcontent.org/reports/"Visit the ContentNext Reports page/a/strongi/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=hBXjnq"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=hBXjnq" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=mnb1N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=mnb1N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=JI7iN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=JI7iN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=IkwJn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=IkwJn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=PjhPN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=PjhPN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=W21tN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=W21tN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459228707" height="1" width="1"/

pa href="http://d.openx.org/ck.php?oaparams=2__bannerid=1995__zoneid=242__cb=dc9c8ccb7f__maxdest=http://www.wildapricot.com/membership-management.aspx?utm_campaign=RWWutm_medium=referralutm_source=readwriteweb.comutm_content=MMFCA" rel="nofollow"img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/sponsor_post_wildapricot.jpg" border="0" //aemstrongEditor's note:/strong we're currently running a series of 'Sponsor Posts', focused on use cases and business stories. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be stronguseful and interesting/strong to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products./em/p pa href="http://d.openx.org/ck.php?oaparams=2__bannerid=1995__zoneid=242__cb=dc9c8ccb7f__maxdest=http://www.wildapricot.com/membership-management.aspx?utm_campaign=RWWutm_medium=referralutm_source=readwriteweb.comutm_content=MMFCA" rel="nofollow"Wild Apricot/a is a young technology company out of Toronto, Canada. We provide Software-as-as-Service for associations, clubs, and non-profit organizations. This is our story of an investment round that fell through due to economic conditions./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12621amp;cb=12621' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12621amp;n=12621' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p pOur clients are primarily based in US and Canada, as well as other English-speaking countries around the world: UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, etc. (software is currently only offered in English). As of now (November 2008) we already have over 12,000 organizations signed up for our membership website software, which we think is not bad for a barely 2-year-old startup./p pOriginally financed by our founders, the company wanted to grow faster and in December 2007 decided to seek additional financing from outside investors. Things progressed quickly, and by February 2008 we shook hands on a deal with a new investor: a very entrepreneurial investment company out of UK. Closing was planned for April 2008./p pOf course, things never go as planned (and this is one of the lessons many startups learn the painful way). First, due diligence protracted much longer than expected. This was partially due to the fact that our Canadian-based company has a subsidiary office in Moscow, Russia, where the bulk of software development work takes place. The investor was keen to ensure that the intellectual property was properly protected, and it required changes to the legal setup of the Russian subsidiary, new employment contracts for all employees, and a bunch of other changes./p pThen the MBAs and lawyers got their hands on the deal, and it quickly deteriorated from a relatively simple original term sheet to a thick stack of very complicated contracts./p pThis was to be the first Canadian deal for the investment company, and the deal stalled for a while as the investor's lawyers struggled to reconcile the terms sheet with their standard templates and the wording of UK contractual law with the Canadian legal system and its way of doing things. (That's another lesson for start-ups: making a deal outside of your home base frequently takes much more time and energy.)/p pThe shareholder agreement, articles of association, board by-laws, and all the other fun documents multiplied in versions like rabbits./p pEverybody got exhausted, and the deal almost derailed a few times and was only saved thanks to the open dialog between our company and the majority shareholder of the investment company./p pDmitry Buterin, the Chief Apricot (aka President of Wild Apricot), got the final documents on the morning of October 9th, 2008. He was visiting the Moscow office at the time and went to work having the documents signed and faxed between Moscow and Toronto./p pAlas, it was not to be. At 4:00 pm, he got a call from the investor. "We are not going to close the deal after all. Our shareholders are panicking and withdrawing their money. We cannot do any new deals now." The financial crisis finally hit home./p pAfter seven months of due diligence, many thousands of dollars spent on accountants and lawyers, and countless hours invested by the management team, Wild Apricot had to write it all off./p pIt was even more disappointing because our company was delivering on its promises. Back in January 2008, we provided a detailed financial projection, and at the last check-in with the investor team we were proud to show the September and year-to-date numbers were right on the projections./p pAs the saying goes, in every crisis there is opportunity. So, the Wild Apricot team went searching hard for those opportunities./p pThe story is still being written because the crisis is still unfolding, but here is what we have achieved so far:/p olliWe asked nicely, and the investor agreed to reimburse part of Wild Apricot's legal expenses, even though there was no legal obligation on the investor's part./li liWe contacted local media right away to capitalize on all of the hoopla about the crisis and ended up on Canada's a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bssiZFPoyM"CBC television/a./li liThe founders put together another round of their own money, and while they had to scale back some growth ambitions, we feel comfortable about riding out the current storm and bridging this and the next investment round. (we knew that any deal had a risk of falling through, so we had backup financing arranged in advance, and it came in very handy.)/li/ol pWal-Mart has been a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE4AC92720081113"reporting record growth/a as of late and McDonalds is a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2008-11-11-voa51.cfm"stealing market share from Starbucks/a. So we think Wild Apricot might do even better in these tough times. Non-profits are hurting and have to trim their budgets (just a href="http://news.google.ca/news?q=tough+times+for+non-profitsbtnG=Search+News"search Google News/a)./p pTo tell you more about our software: the basic premise is that for a simple, flat monthly fee of $25 to $200, Wild Apricot replaces up to seven separate pieces of software: the content management system for your website, a members database, a secure private website for members and the board, an event registration system, online payments processing, software to send bulk emails and newsletters, and online community facilities, such as blogs and discussion forums. Technical support and updates are free./p pFor a small association or club, this set-up saves thousands of dollars in software, countless hours of volunteer time usually wasted on copying and pasting and reconciling the data between a dozen Excel files, and paying through the nose for IT services./p pWild Apricot delivers a custom-built website project that would cost the equivalent of $20,000 or more (not to mention hefty ongoing maintenance and support fees)./p pOctober 2008 has been our best month in terms of absolute financial growth (meaning our monthly revenue has increased by the biggest amount ever). Percentage-wise, our revenue grew by 11.3% in a single month! And November so far is shaping up to be an even better month for us./p pWe we are very confident in our ability to keep growing by staying agile on our feet!/p pAnd here is the silver lining:/p pThe US dollar is shooting up against most other currencies. Wild Apricot software is priced in US dollars, while its expenditures are largely in Canadian dollars and Russian rubles. This adds a healthy boost to its bottom line./p pWhat are your war stories? 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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"T-Mobile USA will provide Yahoo#39;s OneSearch search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"T-Mobile is placing a OneSearch button on its phones in a deal that is to be announced soon, said Marco Boerries, executive vice president and head of Yahoo#39;s Connected Life Division, at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. The carrier#39;s decision to place a OneSearch button in the software of its subscribers#39; handsets is a much-needed win for Yahoo as it struggles against Google and Microsoft for search advertising dollars and looks for a successor to#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/Yahoos_Yang_to_step_down_as_CEO_1.html"outgoing CEO Jerry Yang/a./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Get the latest on mobile developments with InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"Mobile Report newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Yahoo#39;s latest partner has a close relationship with Google in at least one area. Last month,#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/22/TMobiles_Androidbased_G1_goes_on_sale_1.html"T-Mobile USA became the first mobile operator to offer a phone based on Google#39;s Android software platform when it put HTC#39;s G1 handset on sale/a. T-Mobile could not immediately be reached for comment, and Yahoo#39;s Boerries didn#39;t say specifically whether the OneSearch button would appear on the G1./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Yahoo let Google take away most of its market share in PC search and is working with carriers to make sure the same thing doesn#39;t happen in mobile, Boerries said. So the company is working through mobile operators to get OneSearch set up on their phones in hopes that subscribers will go straight to Yahoo#39;s search engine rather than calling up a competitor#39;s, he said. Yahoo has deals with 26 mobile operators around the world, which have 850 million subscribers, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"OneSearch is available by download to users of many phones. However, since mobile users traditionally don#39;t download applications to their phones often, Yahoo can reach more users by preloading the button on their phones./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In March, T-Mobile in Northern and Central Europe dropped Google search for Yahoo, and the U.K. carrier O2 also is a partner, Boerries said. Those deals have helped Yahoo gain a market share of 25 percent in Europe and more than 30 percent in the U.K., he said. The company had quot;lost all footprint on searchquot; on PCs in Europe, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"OneSearch is designed to return useful answers, instead of just a series of links, for easier use on mobile devices, and earlier this year was opened up to allow content from third parties such as reviews site Yelp. Voice search, which just this week became available from Google as an iPhone application, already was available for OneSearch, Boerries said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In 2009, Yahoo will concentrate on making it easier for advertisers to set up effective mobile advertising, Boerries said. For example, it#39;s hard to make ads look good on a wide variety of mobile devices, and Yahoo wants to help solve that problem, he said. The company is exploring how to give advertisers the tools they need to create the right ad experience for consumers and to reach as many people as they want without having to make deals with many operators, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Mobile search advertising has to be built from the ground up, and not all Web search advertisers will want to make the leap, Boerries said./p/divbr style=clear: both;/ img alt= style=border: 0; height:1px; width:1px; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=3340feadeccd86fe65f663796e498d2e height=1 width=1/ img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3340feadeccd86fe65f663796e498d2e style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/