Once again 9to5Mac reports on Steve Jobs answering Apple users’ questions, this time regarding iPad support for Google’s Picasa. The question:
…Are there any plans to support Picasa’s faces and albums in iTunes, so I can take full advantage of the [iPad] Photos application, since Photoshop Album is long discontinued. If not, please can [...]
Gmail may only be the 3rd most popular email service on the planet (behind Yahoo! and Hotmail) but it ranks first in the hearts of geeks everywhere and can be used in a variety of ways on the iPhone:
IMAP (or POP if you’re really old school) right from the iPhone Mail app. With its prominent [...]
TechCrunch links to noted developer Tim Bray who’s taking a position as “Developer Advocate” at Google for Android but who announces it while taking a swipe at Apple’s iPhone:
The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can [...]
Riverturn has entered into the Google Voice for iPhone arena with it’s latest offering VoiceCentral Black Swan. Google Voice and iPhone have a long history together and it has not been pretty, until now that is.
Black Swan is an application you can get outside of the App Store and you do not need to have [...]
The first unofficial Google Buzz application, Buzzie, [$1.99 on sale - iTunes Link] has made it’s way into the Apple App Store.
Up until this point all Google Buzz users have had to rely on Google’s web interface, even on Google’s own Android OS, so Buzzie is a welcomed addition within the App Store. Whether or [...]
Without being asked, Google decided to whip out an email to TechCrunch anyway and comment on the Apple vs. HTC patent lawsuit announced yesterday:
“We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we stand behind our Android operating system and the partners who have helped us to develop it.”
This is interesting in light [...]
Yesterday it was announced that Google is buying reMail which “downloads all your email to your phone and lets you search it at light speed”, and now as part of that deal, founder Gabor Cselle has posted that they’re killing the reMail iPhone app, effective immediately [iTunes link dead].
So now we not only have Apple [...]
We just finished having a sit down with the fine folks from DocsToGo and they shared some exciting news about DocsToGo Premium: Desktop Sync and Google Sync are en route! They expect they’ll be submitting the app to the Apple in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned for the release. DocsToGo is currently $14.99 [...]
Given the rumors surrounding Apple and Google lately, and the iPhone and Microsoft Bing, it’s no wonder Mobile World Congress 2010 has raised both topics again, earning a smile from Steve Ballmer, and yet another “stable” comment from Google.
First up, Reuters has comments from Vic Gundotra, Google mobile engineering lead:
“Apple is a very [...]
Silicon Alley Insider claims, according to a source, that Google pays Apple $100 million dollars a year to be the default search engine for the iPhone. Frenemies indeed:
For Apple, that’s not a lot of money. But, it’s enough that it doesn’t make sense for Apple to put considerable resources towards building its own [...]
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