Regardless of its intentions, Google’s other undertakings in China continue to be affected by its decision concerning search. China Unicom, which is the country’s second-largest mobile operator, has decided to cut its ties with the American company.
According to Kathrin Hille and Justine Lau, Unicom’s president, Lu Yimin, made his position clear by stating, "We are willing to work with any company that abides by Chinese law . . . we don’t have any co-operation with Google currently."
The curious thing about this development is the condition in which it may leave the Chinese company’s finances. Just yesterday, China Unicom announced its 2009 annual results, and unfortunately for it, its profits were down about 73 percent on a year-over-year basis.
Logically, then, China Unicom either has little confidence in Google’s ability to impress users, or it faced quite a lot of pressure to part ways with Google. And both of those possibilities imply that there might be further bad news for the search giant.
It should be interesting to see if China Mobile, China’s biggest mobile operator, also distances itself from Google in the days or weeks ahead. Baidu’s share of the mobile search market will bear watching, too.
"We’ve long been a leader in mobile music and have been at the forefront in evolving the category to offer some robust experiences, but those experiences have largely been available though separate applications," said Mark Collins, senior vice president of Data and Voice Products for 
The Telefonica-Yahoo relationship actually goes back a couple of years, since in late 2007, Telefonica made Yahoo oneSearch the main search service on 15 other mobile portals. This is just a big step forward in terms of people affected and money at stake.
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– Design – Gowalla developers have created a fresh new experience that is more flexible, readable and usable.
As far as Google indexing and mobile sites goes, Google’s Matt Cutts says, "If you can find a way where your existing site will work well in mobile browsers, we’re not worrying about supporting two completely different sites." 
"We believe that consumer choice is one of the most critical components to ensuring a rich and seamless client experience," said Christy Wyatt, corporate vice president of software and services, Motorola Mobile Devices. "Motorola and Microsoft have enjoyed a longstanding collaboration and the addition of Bing services to our Android-based smartphones in China is another important step in empowering our end-users."
No twisting of words or misinterpretations took place here. John Herlihy, Google’s vice president of global ad operations, simply said at University College Dublin’s Digital Landscapes conference, "In three years’ time, desktops will be irrelevant."
