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Two weeks ago, Google announced a Chrome extension known as “Chrome to Phone” that enables user to send URL, Google Maps, YouTubes, plain text and even phone numbers from Chrome browser to any Android device. I love this utility but the catch is it is available for Android users only.
I am well expecting a similar [...]

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Google Tweaks Search Result for World Cup 2010

by Simon Ng on June 14, 2010

The entire world is drunk on the World Cup fever. Google also joins the World Cup fever and has tweaked its search result for the FIFA world cup. If you are using Google search on your iPhone, simply search “world cup” and Google will bring you the schedule for the upcoming matches.
You can also use [...]

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Running Google’s Android on iPhone

by Simon Ng on April 23, 2010

Ever think of running another operating system on iPhone? Planetbeing, a member of the renowned iPhone Dev Team, has managed to run Google’s Android OS on Apple’s iPhone.
Earlier, on Wednesday, planetbeing published a video on his blog demonstrating an iPhone running on Android OS. As mentioned by the developer, the port of Android OS [...]

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Yahoo Introduces Sketch-a-Search for iPhone

by Simon Ng on March 25, 2010

On Tuesday, Yahoo unveiled an innovative mobile app named Sketch-a-Search for both iPhone and iPod touch. The app introduces a new way to search on a map and makes the search experience even better.
Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search is a free application available on App Store [iTunes link]. The app offers an interesting feature that lets you draw [...]

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Last Friday, Microsoft released a new version of Bing application for iPhone. The new app is packed with lots of new features and bug fixes.
Since the first release of Bing app on iPhone in mid-December, as claimed by Microsoft, there have been over a million downloads of the Bing app for iPhone so far. [...]

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oMoby Brings Visual Search to iPhone

by Simon Ng on March 21, 2010

Do you still remember Google Goggles that we have covered earlier? Google Goggles, that lets you search via a photo, is still a lab product and not available on iPhone yet.
While we are waiting for Google Goggles, oMoby lets you do similar kind of visual search on iPhone. This free app allows you to [...]

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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 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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