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Survey: 74% of US Americans say NO to in-flight calling, YES to data

In a Harris Interactive survey of 2,030 US adults of whom, 1,778 have actually flown in an airplane, a full three quarters say that cellphone usage on airplanes should be restricted to "non-talking features." In other words, email, texting, and surfing the Web. That's a pretty significant majority seeing as how the EC has cleared the way for calls within European airspace. 69% of consumers agreed that if voice calls are permitted, a special "talking zone" should be established so that other passengers are not interrupted. While the survey reflects our own opinions, take note that the results benefit sites like Yahoo! Mobile, the very company which commissioned the survey. It's also worth highlighting a comment made by a certain Miss Teen, South Carolina who said, "That some US Americans should be unable to do so, because, uh, some-a people out there in our nation don't have cellphones, and such as, maps." Good point.

Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 Gamma now available


Yahoo! is carving its own little piece of limelight from this week's 3GSM event in Barcelona, as the web's most highly-visited portal launched a new gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 as of Monday -- just a short month after the beta rollout. What's new from the beta to the gamma? Outside of Greek designations, customers can now search directly from maps and share Yahoo!'s oneSearch results, news articles and more with friends. Ah, social communities and Yahoo! Mobile -- what a match made in, well, somewhere. But, you'll need to have one of 100 phones that the new Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 works on -- and with Google also stepping it up, this is a mobile battle that's turning the screws every time we see it.

Motorola to bundle Yahoo Go for Mobile

If you're anxiously awaiting Motorola's upcoming lineup, get ready for a little more Yahoo than you may have expected. The two have announced a love-fest that will ultimately result in Yahoo's "Go" bundle of garden-variety tools and apps being "prominently featured" on some of Moto's handsets starting in the first half of '07. You might recall Go making a cameo on Cingular's Nokia 6682; from the press release, we've no reason to expect anything wildly different when it shows up on the Capris of the world. As long as we don't find a dedicated "Y!" button etched into the keypad of our RAZR K1, we dig.

[Via Phone Scoop]




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