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Mar 10 2010

VoiceCentral Black Swan Brings Google Voice to the iPhone

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 [...]


Mar 4 2010

Buzzie Unofficial Google Buzz App Hits App Store

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 [...]


Mar 3 2010

Google Comments on Apple vs. HTC Patent Lawsuit

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 [...]


Feb 18 2010

Google Buys reMail, Kills iPhone App

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 [...]


Feb 17 2010

Documents To Go for iPhone to get Google Docs, Desktop Sync (MWC 2010) — TiPb Apps #1.4

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 [...]


Feb 16 2010

Ballmer on Bing as iPhone Default, Google and Apple Still “Stable”

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 [...]


Feb 12 2010

Google Paying 100 Million a Year for iPhone Search?

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 [...]


Feb 9 2010

Google Announces Buzz; or Will Social Networking Blend?

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 [...]


Feb 5 2010

Apple Requests Google Android Mention Be Removed from App Store Description

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 [...]


Feb 3 2010

Nexus One Update Brings Pinch-to-Zoom, Chrome OS Tablet Gets Conceptual — The Competition!

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 [...]


Jan 31 2010

CEOh-Snap iPad Attack Edition — Google, Nokia, Microsoft, and Nintendo on Apple’s Tablet

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 [...]


Jan 31 2010

CEOh-Snap: Steve Jobs Says Adobe Lazy, Flash Buggy, Google Wants to Kill iPhone, Not “Not Evil”, Next iPhone A+ Update?

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 [...]


Jan 28 2010

Google Makes it onto iPad, Everything “Stable” for iPhone too?

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 [...]


Jan 27 2010

How Does Google Voice WebApp on iPhone Compare to Native Android App?

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 [...]


Jan 26 2010

Google Unleashes Google Voice WebApp for iPhone

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 [...]


Jan 23 2010

Google CEO – Relationship with Apple “Stable, Stable”

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 [...]


Jan 21 2010

Apple’s Steve Jobs Dislikes Google’s Eric Schmidt?

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 [...]


Jan 20 2010

Apple and Microsoft in Discussions to Oust Google, Make Bing Default iPhone Search Engine

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 [...]


Jan 16 2010

Google Reader Mobile-Optimized WebApp Updated for iPhone

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 [...]


Jan 15 2010

Steve Jobs Thinks “Mobile Ads Suck”, Intends iTunes-style Fix?

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 [...]