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Yahoo in deal to bring Internet content to PalmPilots™

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec 15 (Reuters) - Yahoo! Inc, one of the most popular destinations for news and information on the Internet, on Tuesday said it will offer an easier way for computer users to update scheduling and contact data on computers using the Yahoo web site as a transfer point.

Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) said it is introducing a test version of a product that will enable users to transfer information from Yahoo online calendars or address books into popular 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS - news) PalmPilot handheld computers or other computer devices running Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Outlook software.

The company said it has developed the system in conjunction with Motorola Inc.'s (NYSE:MOT - news) recently acquired Starfish Software Inc., a developer of software that synchronizes computer data on a range of computer devices.

The new product, called TrueSync for Yahoo, was designed for mobile computer users in and out of the office and to help save them the trouble of duplicating dates and addresses into multiple computers, the companies said.

Yahoo said the new technology simplifies the process of transferring information from a desktop computer to a portable computer device, requiring just a single click of an icon on the computer screen.

For example, office computer users could send scheduling information via Yahoo to a home computer or vice versa, eliminating the time-consuming task of re-entering scheduling or contact information on the home device.

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