Samsung extends Yahoo services across Android, bada

Yahoo announced it will extend its global partnership with Samsung, launching a host of mobile services across devices running the handset maker's own bada operating system as well as Google's Android. Per terms of the agreement, which officially kicks off next month, Samsung will preload branded Yahoo solutions including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Front Page, Yahoo Search, Flickr and Yahoo News. Yahoo and Samsung first partnered in 2007--the firms say the new deal will enable millions of additional Samsung device owners to access Yahoo services.

Samsung's Android devices won't be the only smartphones running the Google OS without featuring Google's mobile services--last month, the Motorola Backflip, AT&T's first Android smartphone, hit stores with Yahoo as its default mobile search engine instead of Google's own search tool. Days later, T-Mobile USA instituted Google as the default search tool across its handsets, replacing Yahoo.

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