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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]