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Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:45am EST

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BARCELONA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Unfazed by Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) bid to acquire it, Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) launched a mobile phone tool to let phone users share personal details from their favourite Web services with friends in their address books.

Yahoo on Tuesday said it was introducing a new tool it calls oneConnect that fits snippets of the Web's most popular services -- both from Yahoo, and rivals such as Microsoft, Google (GOOG.O) or Facebook -- onto the small screens of mobile phones.

OneConnect will be made available in the second quarter. Versions of the service can run on a majority of mass-market mobile phones sold around the world.

Yahoo said it will create special versions to work on Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone and Research in Motion's (RIM.TO)(RIMM.O) Blackberry. (Reporting by Georgina Prodhan and Eric Auchard; Editing by Paul Bolding)

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