We know that globally Google is kickin' everyone's butt. But in Asia, sometimes the song doesn't remain the same. Yahoo! (or, Yahoo Kimo, whatever that is... seems to be what they call it here. What the heck is a Kimo?) has long been the ultimate ruler of the Taiwan Internet Thunderdome. We've said before and we'll keep saying until someone tells us to STFU that Yahoo! still hasn't met its match here.

Google Taiwan seems to be timidly upping the ante recently: Looking to hire some local peeps, unveiling Google Taiwan maps, etc. Then there was all that Google-Phone Android hoohah. Local Taiwan vendor HTC is trying WAY TOO HARD to get mileage out of its "alliance" with Google... and 33 other worldwide partners. Enough already, HTC boys. We know you are very proud of yourselves, but don't count your chickens yet. No one really knows where this whole G-Phone mess is going.

Then this week, Yahoo! Taiwan kicks it up another notch. From DigiTimes:

"At the ongoing 2007 GSMA (GSM Association) Mobile Asia Congress in Macao, Yahoo! announced the launch of a version of Yahoo! Go 2.0 in traditional Chinese in Taiwan, marking the entry of Yahoo! Kimo (Yahoo! Taiwan) into the mobile market in Taiwan, according to a Yahoo! Kimo press release. Yahoo! Go 2.0 is a mobile Internet access software program that allows handsets or other types of hand-held devices access to Yahoo! online services, said vice president and general manager David Ko for Yahoo! Connected Life Asia. To provide Yahoo! Go 2.0 services, Yahoo! has cooperated with 20 mobile telecom carriers around the world with 16 of them being in the Asia-Pacifc region, according to Yahoo! Kimo."

Uh oh, Google and HTC buddies, what's going on? We'll just have to see now, won't we? As with most of the announcements that Google has been making recently, this is really obtuse. I wish Yahoo, Google and Microsoft could just send out simple announcements that actually say or show what you will be able to do.

However, I DO love the idea of a Mobile Asia Congress! The floor now recognizes the Senator from the Philippines.

Keep watching for more throwdowns, smackdowns and hair-pulling by the Yahooligans and the Googlers.

More to come
-jag

 

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