The Internet company on Tuesday unveiled a new bookmarking tool for cell phones that lets people keep track of favorite Web content–news feeds, search results, Web sites–from one place on their handheld. The technology, called Yahoo OnePlace, will be available in the second quarter of 2008, according to Yahoo.

The tool builds on other new mobile applications from Yahoo. Those include OneConnect, a tool to update social-networking messaging on the phone (announced in February), and OneSearch, which aggregates news, weather, financial data, photos, and Web links based on search queries.

Yahoo has heavy competition in mobile. Earlier Tuesday at Germany’s annual CeBit conference, Google demonstrated Google Gears, an open-source browser extension for mobile phones that lets developers create Web applications that can run offline. For now, Google Gears supports Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 phones, but not Apple’s iPhone or other smart phones running Opera browsers.

Last month, Opera also switched out Yahoo and made Google the default search engine for its Opera Mobile and Opera Mini Web browsers designed for handheld devices.

Still, Yahoo’s aim is to become the default access point for mobile-phone users accessing the Web. The idea behind OnePlace is to let people bookmark any piece of Web content–news feeds, sites, videos, images, e-mails, search queries–and put that material into a topic category such as travel or “trip to Paris.” That material will be automatically updated and accessible from the phone. People can sort their bookmarks by local relevance or popularity with friends; and they can organize the material in any way they like.

“Yahoo OnePlace is where users will be able to find what matters to them the most, no matter where their interests, passions and information come from,” Marco Boerries, Yahoo’s executive vice president of “connected life,” said in a statement.

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Google come out with a new website publishing tools for office workers.This tool will assist office workers to setup simple websites which takes direct aim at Microsoft’s rival SharePoint franchise.

Google Sites, as the new site publishing service is known, is a scaled back version of JotSpot, an easy-to-edit service for organizations and individuals to set up and edit Web sites that Google had acquired 16 months ago for undisclosed terms.

This new service is the latest push for business and educational users to into the market, actively allows the biggners to organize and share digital information to organize content and share data such as Web links, calendars, photos, videos, presentations and widgets to maintain sites easily.

“Creating a team website has always been too complicated, requiring dedicated hardware and software as well as programming skills,” Dave Girouard, general manager of Google’s Enterprise unit said.

This New tool is easy to use version of Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software helps the users inside an organization to share documents and maintain calendars on secure websites .

SharePoint, which requires organizations to buy their own hardware and software that run with costs from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Google Sites is hosted on Google computers and is free to users of Google Apps.

“We think this is SharePoint-like, but better,” Girouard said in an interview.

Basic sites are free or carry a small monthly per-user fee, but organisations have purchased fuller-featured versions of Google Apps that provide for centralized technical management.

Google Sites puts control of Web sites into the hands of regular office workers rather than an organization’s network administrators or technical support desk, Girouard said.

Google Apps offers a suite of word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation software that let groups of users to edit and view documents over the Web, together with e-mail and basic personal Web site migrations.

Google Sites enables any user invited to join a site to edit pages without requiring knowledge of Web coding or design. Any information published to the site is searchable by visitors with permission to use the site, the company said.

“Google Sites is relatively easy to use and free,” said Rebecca Wettemann, an analyst with technical consulting firm Nucleus Research of Wellesley, Massachusetts. “Google is making people think differently about how businesses use the Web.”

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