Mobile Tech Notes -- .mobi, Motorola Q Cradle, Yahoo!

400,000 .mobi Domain Names Now Registered

dotMobi, the company behind the .mobi Top Level Domain (TLD) designed specifically for mobile devices, today announced more than 400,000 .mobi domains have been registered in 104 countries since the domain's launch in October of last year. As a comparison, only 100,000 .com domain names were registered in the first ten years of that domain's existence.

In addition to general domain sales through registrars, dotMobi is going to hold an auction for highly desired domain names. This includes "airfare," "areacodes," "cam," "casinos," "creditscore," "directions," "eat," "libre," "loancalculator," "models," "newmusic," "pics," "pizza," "realestate," and "singles."

More information is available on the dotMobi web site.

Motorola Q Cradle Available

The Motorola Q doesn't come with a cradle, but one is now available from several companies. This comes with everything needed to transfer data and charge this smartphone, including an AC adapter that gives a quicker charge time.

The Motorola Q Cradle is available from:

• JAVOedge: $24.95
• BoxWave: $32.95

Yahoo! and HTC Team Up

An agreement was recently announced under which Yahoo! services, including Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0, Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! oneSearch will come pre-loaded on many of HTC's Windows Mobile smartphones.

Of course, all of these services are available now for any Windows Mobile device as free downloads.

For more information on Yahoo! services, visit mobile.yahoo.com.