by Simon Ng on July 19, 2009
On Wednesday, Google updated its mobile homepage and rolled out a new feature called “My Location“. If you used to visit Google.com with Safari on iPhone 3.0, you may aware the introduction of My Location feature – New! Try My Location to find restaurants, shops and bars near you.
With My Location, you can easily [...]
by Simon Ng on June 16, 2009
Back in May, in the graduation ceremony of Carnegie Mellon University, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt was invited to deliver the commencement speech. In his speech, he advised the graduates to stay away from computer (for a while) and even turn off the cellphone, and try to discover all that is human around us:
In a world [...]
by Simon Ng on June 15, 2009
Google continues to improve its mobile service. Earlier, it has added the “Label” feature to its mobile version of Gmail. Recently, it brushes up Gmail mobile to further improve your mobile experience and brings back the revamped mobile version of iGoogle service.
Gmail for Mobile Further Enhanced
The improvement for Gmail Mobile is minor but greatly improve [...]
by Simon Ng on June 5, 2009
A couple days ago, Microsoft has rolled out an early preview of its new search engine – Bing.com. As mentioned in the earlier post, Bing.com looks pretty good but it doesn’t support iPhone (or mobile phone).
Today, Microsoft has officially released a mobile version of the search engine. Simply point your mobile Safari to www.bing.com or [...]
by Simon Ng on May 23, 2009
The route feature in Google Maps always shows you the best route from point A to point B. Google uses its own algorithm and makes the best guess to choose the best route for you. But as you know, sometimes, there are more than one effective route to your destination. And, the best route chosen [...]
by Simon Ng on May 22, 2009
Do you use Gmail on iPhone? If you’re a regular Gmail user and with iPhone 2.2.1, this is a good news for you. Google has further improved Gmail on mobile and now it gets labels. Labels in Gmail allow you to manage your inbox by categorizing emails in color-coded tags. I love the label concept [...]
by Simon Ng on February 24, 2009
Google is working really hard to bring more features to iPhone and other mobiles. Not long ago, Google released Google Sync and Google Book Search for mobile. Here is another new feature – Edit Spreadsheet in Google Spreadsheet. You can now use your iPhone and edit any spreadsheet by using Google Spreadsheet.
If you’re a long-time [...]
by Simon Ng on February 12, 2009
Are you a regular user of Gmail and Google Calendar? I love both products from Google. I use them daily to keep in touch with my friends and keep track with my schedule. But I always complain Google lacks a sync feature to sync all my contact or calendar event from iPhone to my Google [...]
by Simon Ng on February 4, 2009
In December, Google released a lab feature called “Tasks” in Gmail, that lets you keep and manage a To-do list. Today, Google announces the release of the extension of this feature to both iPhone and Android mobile phone. So, you can now manage your To-do list anytime and anywhere.
Simply point the mobile Safari to http://gmail.com/tasks [...]