The mobile and local search markets have seen immense growth at rates never seen before over the last three years. Yet still, they are on the verge of taking off to a higher level with huge growth forecasts for the mobile industry just released recently. All indications point that we are still on the early development stage of mobile development, in spite of the massive number of new mobile technologies being offered from left to right today. Industry analysts tell us to brace ourselves to the mobile boom that has begun.

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Android’s appeal, at least to me, is its integration with Google services. As I wrote on Tuesday, this includes not only synced services like Gmail and GChat, but also web-apps like Google Reader and Google Docs. They might not have their own dedicated applications, but the mobile sites are well-designed and make for easy browsing and reading. But my web habits certainly extend beyond Google. I’m sure many faithful Gmail users also use other services for webmail. Yahoo! Mail is one of the most popular email services, and since it predates Gmail I’m sure many faithful Gmail users also have Yahoo! Mail accounts. If you do, you’re in luck. Yahoo has released a Mail app for Android.

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