Mar
10
2010
Riverturn has entered into the Google Voice for iPhone arena with it’s latest offering VoiceCentral Black Swan. Google Voice and iPhone have a long history together and it has not been pretty, until now that [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Apps, Black Swan, Google, google voice, iPhone, voicecentral
Mar
4
2010
The first unofficial Google Buzz application, Buzzie, [$1.99 on sale - iTunes Link] has made it’s way into the Apple App Store.
Up until this point all Google Buzz users have had to rely on Google’s [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: app, App Store, App Store Apps, Apps, buzz, Google, iPhone
Mar
3
2010
Without being asked, Google decided to whip out an email to TechCrunch anyway and comment on the Apple vs. HTC patent lawsuit announced yesterday:
“We are not a party to this lawsuit. However, we [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: apple vs htc, frenemies, Google, lawsuit, News
Feb
18
2010
Yesterday it was announced that Google is buying reMail which “downloads all your email to your phone and lets you search it at light speed”, and now as part of that deal, founder Gabor Cselle [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Apps, Google, iPhone, iPod touch, killed apps, News, reMail
Feb
17
2010
We just finished having a sit down with the fine folks from DocsToGo and they shared some exciting news about DocsToGo Premium: Desktop Sync and Google Sync are en route! They expect they’ll be submitting [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Apps, document editing, document repository, Documents to go premium, excel, Google, google docs, iPhone, mwc10, News, office, powerpoint, sync, TiPb Apps, word
Feb
16
2010
Given the rumors surrounding Apple and Google lately, and the iPhone and Microsoft Bing, it’s no wonder Mobile World Congress 2010 has raised both topics again, earning a smile from Steve Ballmer, and yet another [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: ballmer, bing, frenemies, Google, mwc10, News
Feb
12
2010
Silicon Alley Insider claims, according to a source, that Google pays Apple $100 million dollars a year to be the default search engine for the iPhone. Frenemies indeed:
For Apple, that’s not a lot [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Google, ipad, iPhone, Rumors, Search, search share
Feb
9
2010
Our sibling site Android Central let us know that Google has shoved every social media form you can imagine, from Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare, to — dunno, Friendserjaiku? — into something called Buzz.
After Google [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: buzz, Google, google buzz, News
Feb
5
2010
Have the gloves officially come off with Apple demanding Flash of Genius: SAT Vocab’s developer remove a mention of Google’s Android from their App Store application’s description? This does come just days after Steve Jobs [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, App Store, Apps, controvery, Google, News, Steve Jobs
Feb
3
2010
According to our sibling site, Android Central, in the wake of Apple’s iPhone 3.1.3 update and new iPad hardware, Google issued a Nexus One software update of their own — one that enables multitouch pinch-to-zoom [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: android, chrome os, Google, News, nexus one
Jan
31
2010
Prior to Steve Jobs laying into Google and Adobe, Google, Nokia, Microsoft, and Nintendo got their shots in on Apple and the iPad, and here’s what they had to say:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “You might [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: ceo-snap, Google, ipad, Microsoft, News, nintendo, nokia
Jan
31
2010
According to an anonymous source in attendance at Apple’s recent, internal iPad town hall meeting at the Cupertino campus, Steve Jobs answered some employee questions by saying “Adobe is lazy” and that Google’s “don’t be [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: adobe, ceo-snap, flash, Google, jobs speaks, News
Jan
28
2010
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, he showed off the Apple designed but Google fed Maps application, and the Google-ownd YouTube app. He even named Google during the Maps demo. Much has been made about [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: frenemies, Google, Maps, News, youtube
Jan
27
2010
Earlier today Google unveiled their new Google Voice WebApp for iPhone. Sure you can place calls, send text messages, get your voice mail, and access all of your account settings but TiPb was curious how [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Application, Apps, Google, google voice, iPhone, Web, Web Apps
Jan
26
2010
Google has released the long-awaited Google Voice WebApp for iPhone (and Palm webOS), something they said they’d be doing in the wake of their exclusion from the iTunes App Store.
Similar to Google’s other, marvelous WebApps [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: fcc response, Google, google voice, News, Web Apps, webapp
Jan
23
2010
AppleInsider reports that during Google’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about Google’s relationship with Apple, and responded:
“I, as a former board member, have a special spot for Apple in my [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Eric Schmidt, frenemies, Google, News
Jan
21
2010
Jim Goldman of CNBC claims to have a source that is giving up some goods on the whole Apple and Microsoft teaming up against Google fiasco story:
Microsoft wants part of the iPhone pie as the [...]
Category: Apple, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: bing, Eric Schmidt, Google, Microsoft, News, Search, Steve Jobs
Jan
20
2010
Business Insider is reporting that, given Google’s new rise to smartphone rival, Apple is now in talks with previous-generation frenemy Microsoft to replace the iPhone’s default search engine with Bing.
“Apple and Google know [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: bing, Google, Microsoft, Rumors, search wars
Jan
16
2010
Our sibling site PreCentral.net pointed out that the Google Reader Blog has announced some updates for their mobile optimized site. While they show it off on the iPhone’s Safari, it’ll work fine on any WebKit [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Google, google reader, News, Web Apps, webapp
Jan
15
2010
BusinessWeek is reporting that, according to the cliched “source familiar with the situation”, Apple CES Steve Jobs thinks “mobile ads suck” in their current form (oh, hai, Google!) and intends to do for them what [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: apple vs google, Google, mobile advertising, News