Microsoft to unveil MyPhone at the Mobile World Congress

[Vision]

Better late than never, lets see how Microsoft will fair with their cloud computing... MyPhone (hmmm, I wonder why they selected that familiar sounding name :lol:

Here is the article link:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/200...-microsoft-my-phone-mobile-world-congress.htm

Here is the text:

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker is ready to announce My Phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week where it could announce more details about a test of the service.

My Phone is a mobile phone service that will harmonize address books, calendars and to-do lists in a bid to match Apple Inc.'s MobileMe. It also lets users back up their mobile-phone content on a website and share it online. Microsoft focused mainly on business customers with Windows Mobile.

My Phone is an application that will need to be downloaded(200MB) to the Windows Mobile device before users can create accounts which enables user to Access and update contacts and appointments on the web and Share photos with friends and family.

The Microsoft My Phone service will be free in which it challenges Apple MobileMe for $99 a year.

 

[Focus]

blah barf

 

[HomerJ]

theres a really funny simpsons episode where lisa gets a mypod

 

[Vision]

Now Yahoo wants to use MyPhone in their branding

Perhaps, we will see a bidding war now for the domain name, MyPhone.com

Here is the article link:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/17/yahoo-mobile-also-wants-to-claim-the-my-phone-moniker/

What would you rather have, an iPhone or a My Phone? Both Microsoft and Yahoo think you want a My Phone. On the iPhone section of its Website detailing the revamped Yahoo Mobile service, due to launch publicly in March, Yahoo marketers try to drum up interest in the new offering by using this headline in its marketing campaign:

From iPhone™ to “my” phone.

The iPhone trademark is taken (notice the ™), but that is not stopping mobile marketers from trying to ride on its coattails. Yesterday, Microsoft announced its own My Phone service for syncing data between your phone and desktop.

If you are a mobile marketer, here is a tip for you. Coming up with something that rhymes with iPhone to peddle your mobile services is not a winning strategy. It is derivative and shows a lack of imagination. It is as though they are trying to say, “Our products are like the iPhone, but only better and more cuddly.” Why even invite the comparison? That two major Web companies decided to characterize their products as the My Phone just goes to show how much the iPhone is defining the industry right now.


So what exactly is new about Yahoo Mobile? The service is built around Yahoo oneConnect, which the company announced at the World Mobile Congress last year. OneConnect is a social address book that pulls together all your contacts, emails, IMs, SMS messages, and activity streams from other social networks and social media sites across the Web. Building on top of oneConnect, Yahoo Mobile will integrate more services such as oneSearch (its mobile-optimized search engine) and Yahoo onePlace (a fancy feed reader that lets you keep track of blog posts, stock updates, sports scores, and the like). The different apps appear in a familiar icon grid, just like on the iPhone.

In March, Yahoo Mobile will be available as a destination on mobile browsers, as a new app for the iPhone, as well as apps for a wide range of smartphones including Blackberriey, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and other handsets. (Yahoo has been working in thisMobileCrunch found some screen shots last November). One noteworthy distinction between the iPhone app and the other smartphone apps is that Yahoo Mobile will incorporate the Opera mobile browser as one of its icons on the smartphone apps. It doesn’t appear that the Opera browser will be an option on the iPhone app. The mobile browser is not something that Apple is too keen on opening up to competition.

 

[Theo]

myphone.com is owned by phone.com Microsoft will have to pay millions to get it.

 

[Gerry]

myphone.com is owned by phone.com Microsoft will have to pay millions to get it.

They just might.

What did YP.com sell for?

And I think it was really AT&T the buyer.

well, just answered my own question:

Type in YP.com and it goes to YellowPages.com

© 2008 YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC. All rights reserved.
© 2008 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies.

 

[Vision]

myphone.com is owned by phone.com Microsoft will have to pay millions to get it.

Actually, he should call Apple and sell it to them :lol:

I can see it now... Apple beats Microsoft and Yahoo again, acquires MyPhone.com!

 

[owntag]

LoL, apple uses MobileMe as their service name, Microsoft should contact me and get MobileYou!

 

[dn-101]

MS, is obviously, slipping. Second-rate thinking. Third-rate marketing.
getPhone.com is still avl, though :smilewinkgrin:

 

[namenut]

OK .... This is out of left field ( or is it right field?) a bit but ..... I've been
listening to (reading) the argument about dot mobi's life span. Or if it still
is alive at all. This was one of the announcement that I was hoping would
cement either a corner stone or a headstone for the []mobi extension.
And please with this school of thought I hope to not get any death
threats. But I think []mobi has just missed the last great train ride.
Thus this announcement is the headstone for []mobi. :upset:

I did well with []mobis last year and still hold a few nice names. The party
had to end sometime.

If "the Goog", "the soft" or "the space" had adopted the extension as
a sibling in marketing then the extension might have had a chance. Now
I can start clearing the port a bit ....... I think.

By the way .... I'm holding Microogle[]com for the day they see
things my way.... :yes:

nn

 

[Vision]

Namenut, your home state is Nevada.

Well the state of Nevada has just launched a state-wide promotion across major interstates marketing NVRoads.mobi and NVSki.mobi

Here is the link

Here is the article:

Thumbs Up to the Nevada Commision on Tourism
Way back when, one of the first showcase sites dotMobi had to show people was for Las Vegas.

Now, Nevada is showing it still cares about .mobi. The Nevada Commission on Tourism owns and operates sites at http://nvroads.mobi and http://nvski.mobi. Not only did the Commission use dotMobi best practices when creating the sites, they've actually spent time and money promoting the sites. Along with strongly featuring .mobi on their PC Web site (including education -- and a video -- on .mobi sites) and geo-targeted banner advertising on http://weather.mobi, the Commission has produced 3"x5" cards that are distributed at ski and sport shops

Nokia has launched 15 .mobi sites and promotes most of them.

Turn on Fox News now and watch the left corner of the screen -- it flashes FoxNews.mobi 24/7

Disney, Universal Pictures, Diet Coke, Xbox and several other companies are including .mobi within their branding.

I see many more major brands launching .mobi sites as opposed to .net or .info websites.

2.5 year old dotMobi is healthy and growing stronger day-by-day.

OK .... This is out of left field ( or is it right field?) a bit but ..... I've been
listening to (reading) the argument about dot mobi's life span. Or if it still
is alive at all. This was one of the announcement that I was hoping would
cement either a corner stone or a headstone for the []mobi extension.
And please with this school of thought I hope to not get any death
threats. But I think []mobi has just missed the last great train ride.
Thus this announcement is the headstone for []mobi. :upset:

I did well with []mobis last year and still hold a few nice names. The party
had to end sometime.

If "the Goog", "the soft" or "the space" had adopted the extension as
a sibling in marketing then the extension might have had a chance. Now
I can start clearing the port a bit ....... I think.

By the way .... I'm holding Microogle[]com for the day they see
things my way.... :yes:

nn

 

[namenut]

Namenut, your home state is Nevada.

Well the state of Nevada has just launched a state-wide promotion across major interstates marketing NVRoads.mobi and NVSki.mobi

Here is the link

Here is the article:


Nokia has launched 15 .mobi sites and promotes most of them.

Turn on Fox News now and watch the left corner of the screen -- it flashes FoxNews.mobi 24/7

Disney, Universal Pictures, Diet Coke, Xbox and several other companies are including .mobi within their branding.

I see many more major brands launching .mobi sites as opposed to .net or .info websites.

2.5 year old dotMobi is healthy and growing strong day-by-day.

I appreciate the linkage .... and I too still hold out hope for []mobi.
As I said .... I did well with mobi's last year. I still hold a few and of
course I am for rather than against ..... as a nature. I was just
thinking MS could use the ext to grab "that" young market.

I'm surprise "soft" didn't use it as a vehicle to reach out and ...
sell the younger market. []Mobi is aching for teens to get a hold of.

Can you respond to the idea that if any of the online "monsters"
would adopt the extension that it would make the extension
possibly the #2 or #3 extension?

nn

 

[Vision]

NameNut I share your sentiment with respect to the tween, teen and X demos.

However, lets have equal standards when comparing extensions.

Your "monsters" (MySpace, YouTube nor FaceBook) have not launched MySpace.net, MySpace.info, YouTube.net YouTube.info, FaceBook.net or FaceBook.info -- should I now conclude that both .net and .info are dead? No.

Nokia is a "monster" -- the 5th largest brand in the world with 15 .mobi sites appealing primarily to the younger European market.

I was going to keep this to myself, but Microsoft will be removing from beta and widely launching GetTag.mobi -- a super innovative mobile site utilizing barcode technology targeting your young demo.

Learn more here

Microsoft promotes xbox.mobi See here -- also, in gaming publications.

Microsoft has other .mobi projects in the pipeline, as well.

Namemut have patience -- the dotMobi namespace is becoming increasingly brighter.

And ask yourself, it has been 8 years and which major companies are promoting .info or .net? -- compare apples to apples in your analysis.

.com is and always will be king, but 2.5 year old dotMobi is forging ahead and will continue to prove its mettle.