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Ever since Apple replaced Google Maps in its iOS devices for their own Apple Maps across iPhone’s and iPad’s there has been quite a backlash from consumer. Sadly, the Apple maps were far from perfect. From offering wrong labeling of locations, restaurants, guiding people through wrong turns to leading a group of Aussies all the way to a desert infested with snakes, Apple has had …
There truly seems to be no end to the new, innovative and sometimes downright weird features that Google is coming out with these days. Perhaps the team at Google is bored and trying to find ways to fill the days. Whatever the reason, the latest strange innovation is called ‘Handwrite.’ It is designed for use on smartphones, mobile devices and tablets that have touch screen.…
Google has devised an interesting game plan which will enable users to access PC search histories on their mobile browsers (Android, iPhone).
Once logged in on both places, with web history enabled, you will easily be able to conduct a local search on your PC and get the information on your smartphone. This is really a good innovation and convenient for people to search for …
Top 10 iPhone Apps for Small Business in 2011
As the end of the year draws closer, it’s always a time we reflect on the best and worst of the year that was.
Given all the time we’ve spent in the app and mobile space given the recent launch of our new mobile gaming company, I thought I’d share my Top 10 list of …
Back in Oct 2010 research by Chitika found that voice searches were responsible for 7% of Google mobile queries on the iPhone and 25% percent on Android devices. Now it seems that Google has given full attention to this bit of news by introducing voice search for Maps for mobile and desktop users.
Voice search includes a series of spoken commands that let users control …
Realizing that mobile searches are increasingly taking over PC searches, Yahoo has introduced two new search tools to make mobile app searches a less tiring task.
Yahoo! App Search for the PC and the Yahoo! AppSpot for iPhone/Android will make it easier for users to browse through the thousands of mobile apps available on the iPhone Store and Google’s Android Market.
The Yahoo! AppSpot is …
The latest report released by ComScore on the US mobile market share for February 2011 has brought good news for Google.
It’s operating system, Android, made the most significant increase in sales by being the top selling mobile platform with a 7% gain and it now holds 33% market share.
The table below shows how much Google’s Android platform leads in the smartphone platform market.…
The team at Google has been busy this past week with two new product announcements: Instant View for Places Search and Google Search app for iPhone.
The latest product to be instant-tized by Google is ‘Places’ allowing users to view real time results for the place as they type.
With ‘Instant View for Places ‘, Google promises to display results faster than before, so that …
According to a recent report, around 5% of paid search spending is now in the mobile space and Google is the big winner!
The Macquarie Group also reports that the budget for mobile search spending could double to 10% (around $1.1 billion) by the end of 2011 if the current mobile search spending keeps increasing at the given pace and not surprisingly, Google would …
Google Instant Preview, a feature that was till now limited to desktop searches, is now available for Android and iOS devices enabled devices also.
Google’s launched the instant preview feature for their PC users last November so that searchers could view snapshots of the web sites in the search result page without having to enter each page individually. This feature is useful for those who …