Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet media company serving more than 120 million people worldwide, and Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM), today announced an agreement to bundle a suite of Yahoo!'s Web-based services with the Palm(TM) family of handheld computers, including all current Palm III(TM), Palm V(TM) and Palm VII(TM) series products. Today's announcement highlights Yahoo!'s commitment to deliver Web-based services to leading wireless and mobile devices, as well as Palm's commitment to provide the best of Internet content to Palm users from its leading handheld computers.
Yahoo! will offer services -- including Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) and Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) -- which are expected to be bundled with current Palm handheld computers beginning later this year. The agreement marks the first time Yahoo!(R) has bundled its Web-based services with handheld computers.
"Through our agreement with Palm, we're advancing our Yahoo! Everywhere(TM) strategy of enabling access to our popular Web-based services and content anywhere, at any time, from any device," said Mohan Vishwanath, vice president, Yahoo! Everywhere, Yahoo! Inc. "This relationship further offers our users a seamless, integrated solution that allows them to get their personalized content on Palm handhelds, and for Palm users to take full advantage of the rich content and easy-to-use services that Yahoo! provides."
From their Palm handheld computers, registered Yahoo! users will have access to Yahoo! Mail, enabling them to view, originate, reply and delete e-mail messages; Yahoo! Messenger, enabling them to send and receive messages instantly; and customized preferences drawn from their My Yahoo! pages. Palm III and Palm V series handheld users will be able to access these services online via a PalmModem(R) accessory or by performing a HotSync(R) technology operation. Palm VII handheld users will be able to access these services wirelessly and instantly.
Yahoo! Mail is already available for today's Palm VII handheld users and can now be downloaded for use at www.palm.net and http://mobile.yahoo.com. This Palm VII web clipping application enables users to access their Yahoo! Mail accounts to view, originate, reply, sort and delete e-mail messages wirelessly, using their existing Yahoo! IDs.
"The future of handheld computing will be tied very closely to the Internet," said Barry Cottle, chief operating officer, content and access, for Palm, Inc. "Our plans are to bring the best of Internet content to the Palm user, and Yahoo! represents one of the leading Internet sources of content."
Palm handheld computer users who are also registered Yahoo! users currently can take full advantage of a number of Yahoo!'s Web-based services from their handheld computers. Through downloads available at Yahoo! Mobile (http://mobile.yahoo.com), which enables users to manage their wireless and mobile communication needs from one convenient online location, the following services are available: Yahoo! Address Book (http://address.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Calendar (http://calendar.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com), Yahoo! People Search (http://people.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Ski & Snow (http://snow.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Weather (http://weather.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Movies (http://movies.yahoo.com), and Yahoo! Lodging (http://lodging.yahoo.com).
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