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Hands-On With Google Buzz for iPhone

by Simon Ng on March 16, 2010

It’s been a month since the debut of Google Buzz. By now, the service should be available to all Google users. If you have not yet heard about Google Buzz, it is the latest social product offered by Google. The new Buzz app allows you, through your Gmail account; to share your thoughts, multimedia and [...]

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Google Street View: Take a Virtual Tour at Hong Kong using iPhone

by Simon Ng on March 14, 2010

Google Street View is now available in Hong Kong (as well as, Macau). If you haven’t heard of Street View, it’s a feature in Google Maps that provides panoramic views from various positions along many streets in the world.
Google Street View was first launched in May, 2007 and only available for major cities in [...]

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Google Sync for iPhone Back to Normal?

by Simon Ng on March 3, 2010

Over the weekend, if you are using Google Sync to synchronize your email on iPhone, you probably experienced a synchronization problem with Google and failed to retrieve your email. You may not aware of the problem as there is no error message shown when synchronizing the emails. But when you access your Gmail account on [...]

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Google Goggles to Translate Text in Photos

by Simon Ng on February 23, 2010

In early January, I had a trip to Japan for my vacation and celebrated the new year. If you have even been to Japan, you know, English is not a very popular language. Particularly, for some local restaurants, there are no English menu nor English-speaking staff to serve you. So, what you get is a [...]

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A Brief Review of Google Voice for iPhone

by Simon Ng on February 22, 2010

As Google Voice is rejected by Apple as a native application on iPhone last August, Google finally repackaged the Google Voice mobile for iPhone as web application that was built on HTML 5 and launched publicly in late January.
If you are not familiar with Google Voice, it is a free phone service by Google [...]

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Apple May Switch to Bing as the Default Search Engine for iPhone

by Simon Ng on January 22, 2010

In Safari, you tap on the search box, type in your keyword and hit the Search button. iPhone will direct your search to Google for the search. Since the debut of the first iPhone, Google is always the default search engine for iPhone. According to a recent report from BusinessWeek, this may change in near [...]

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Google Wave Invite Contest: The Winners are…

by Simon Ng on January 7, 2010

Thanks for everyone who have joined the Google Wave Invite contest that was posted a week ago. As said, I would send out 5 Google Wave Invites to the winners. And, it turns out that I got two more invites in this week. So, I decide to send out these two invites as well. And, [...]

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Hands-On with Bing App for iPhone

by Simon Ng on December 30, 2009

Bing is Microsoft’s latest version of a search engine released in June. Have you tried it yet? Battling the mighty Google in this market will certainly be a challenge. However, the early review is that this search engine is every bit as good as what we have become used too with our tried and trusted [...]

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Holiday Giveaway: 5 Google Wave Invites

by Simon Ng on December 29, 2009

I’m lucky to have 5 invites for Google Wave and I’m going to give them away. If you love to try out Google Wave and want to get an invite, what you’ll need to do is to subscribe to my blog or Facebook page or Follow Me on Twitter and leave me a comment below [...]

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