Tag Archive | "Apple & Google"

From Google, Mobile Web Calendar with Event Management

Posted on 08 April 2009 by

The ability to edit Google Calendar on iPhones is now possible. The new version is best used through a shortcut on the homepage. continued »

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New Google AdWord options for iPhone

Posted on 08 December 2008 by

Today, the Google mobile ads team announced a new option that allows AdWord advertisers to show your desktop text and image ads on the iPhone and many other mobile devices with full HTML browsers. These ads can point to desktop landing pages so there is no need to create mobile landing pages at all. These ads will have many of the ... continued »

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Google to provide applications from day one of firmware 2.0 launch

Posted on 19 May 2008 by

Google has always been a major player when it comes to the iPhone. The iPhone came loaded with YouTube, Google Maps, and a extremely simple method to sync up your Gmail account with your iPhone. Upon launch, many of Google's web applications were ported over for use with the iPhone's mobile Safari browser. continued »

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Google: We’ll far outsell iPhone; our SDK lets you do more

Posted on 14 March 2008 by

If Google's Rich Miner was a developer, he'd be coding for the iPhone; however, he's actually Group Manager for Mobile Platforms, and as such is more interested in boosting Android's profile with confident predictions that handsets based on the platform will wildly outsell Apple's cellphone. "Once you have devices out there from Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and so on, there's a much ... continued »

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GMail on iPhone gets IMAP upgrade with firmware 1.1.3

Posted on 17 January 2008 by

If you're both an iPhone and GMail user then you might have another reason to eschew any illicit unlocking and go straight for the 1.1.3 firmware upgrade: it quietly changes the connection between the Google email service and the Apple handset from POP to IMAP.  Basically, that means that any changes performed on the iPhone - such as marking emails ... continued »

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Google upgrade iPhone interface: faster & more finger-friendly

Posted on 14 January 2008 by

Google has done its bit in celebrating Macworld by upgrading the customised 'iGoogle' interface designed especially for the iPhone.  The first version, launched at the beginning of December, brought mobile Safari-friendly access of search, Gmail, Calendar and Reader to the handset, while this upgrade boosts speed, increases the flexibility in arranging tabs and options, adds automatic refresh to the Gmail ... continued »

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GooSync synchronises iPhone & Google Calendar

Posted on 26 November 2007 by

We're yet to see full Exchange support for the iPhone - remember, that means calendar and contacts synchronisation as well as push-email - but if your schedule is managed by Google's online Calendar service then you're finally in luck.  GooSync, whose eponymous product keeps your cellphone and calendar wirelessly synchronised, have seemingly released their iPhone client early (it's down as ... continued »

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Google not a threat to the iPhone according to ARM executive

Posted on 07 November 2007 by

So Mr. Warren East isn’t just an ARM executive, he is the friggin’ CEO. So when this guy says he doesn’t think the OHA’s Android will have much of an effect on the iPhone, I am listening. I am especially listening since its risky business talking negatively, or too positively, about a pair of companies who both have handsets either in ... continued »

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Fake Steve not scared of Google, OHA, or Android

Posted on 07 November 2007 by

Surely all of you have heard the news that Google an a bunch of other companies involved in some way with the cellular industry have combined to form the OHA or Open Handset Alliance. The first product of this unholy alliance is to be Android, a completely open platform for mobile devices, the first evidence of which we should be ... continued »

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IMAP support from GMail

Posted on 26 October 2007 by

So Google has decided to be a pioneer, again, and give away free IMAP support for your equally free GMail account. Why is this a big deal? Organization is easier with IMAP support because all of your tagged emails will convert into folders made from those tags, and your emails will be sorted into those folders, making it easier, and ... continued »

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Is the future a Google & Apple collaboration appliace?

Posted on 18 October 2007 by

Nicholas Carr's mobile demands are pretty straightforward: he wants a Google cloud behind his iPhone.  In a piece entitled "Google, Apple and the future of mobile computing" he puts forward a persuasive argument for why the next stage in ultraportable technology will build upon the established relationship between the search giant and Cupertino, with Apple building the gadgets and the UI's ... continued »

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iJailBreak

Posted on 15 October 2007 by

AriX, a gentleman from our sister site, Apple-Touch.com, took the time to automate the jailbreak process for Mac Intel users by making iJailBreak. Sure, judging from the title, you might think it was for the iPhone, but not so much, its for the iPod Touch, the iPhone’s service provider free cousin. Word is, he is working on versions for PPC based ... continued »

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