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Today, Yahoo! announced some new enhancements to its Blueprint application development platform. For those unfamiliar with Yahoo! Blueprint, it is a mobile platform that allows developers to create applications that will run across a broad spectrum of mobile devices, eliminating operating system and browser compatibility issues.

New enhancements include the ability to  build standalone applications for Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, as well as to create mobile web sites accessible through any mobile browser. The company released developer previews of these enhancements.

"Yahoo! Blueprint solves the most challenging problem plaguing today's mobile landscape -- now with one click, you can write once and have mobile services run across a critical mass of devices and operating systems, potentially reaching millions of users," says Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Yahoo! Connected Life. "We believe Yahoo! Blueprint is simply the best way to create mobile Internet services -- and we expect will change the world of mobile development moving forward." Perhaps this is part of the reason for Joanne Bradford's optimism about Yahoo!'s future.

Yahoo! is currently in discussions with Apple to figure out how to make Blueprint for the iPhone available to other developers. In other mobile Yahoo! news, the company released a social network address book application for the iPhone today as well.