LAS VEGAS, Jan 8: Yahoo and Motorola announced on Sunday they have teamed up to “put the Internet in your pocket,” as the battle between rival search engines went mobile at the world's largest electronics show in Las Vegas.

Yahoo Connected Life vice president Marco Boerries joined Motorola president Ed Zander to unveil mobile telephones that “bring the Internet to your phone, not the other way around,” on the stage of a casino ballroom here.

Boerries expected over 400 mobile telephone models to be compatible with Yahoo Go by the end of the year.

Zander showed off new Motorola mobile telephones that will have the software built in and a one-click access design for easily connecting to the Internet.

“I've been using it,” Zander told reporters at the press conference. “I'm a convert.” Yahoo has formed alliances with mobile telephone service carriers around the world to use the “oneSearch” service to make using the Internet on the move as easy as working from a desktop computer, Boerries said.

“Yahoo oneSearch changes the mobile search game by fundamentally improving the way consumers' access and use the Internet on their mobile phones,” he said.

The devices are designed to detect users' locations and provide local information ranging from weather reports to business and events listings along with other search results.—AFP

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