Last month Google has started a new service Google Voice. This service allows calling on any phones. Google reserved more than 1 million numbers for this goal. However, Americans only can use the service, people from others countries have not got the same access. As for iPhone, Apple has rejected the application allowing to use Google Voice. They have said that the Google Voice apps “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. Moreover, Apple has deleted all Google applications from AppStore. Read the rest of this entry »
Google engineers have come up with a way to help visually impaired people control touchscreen-based handhelds such as Apple’s iPhone.
The system works by mimicking the traditional phone keypad, with the number five in the centre and the other numbers arrayed around it. But since the screen has no physical keys, the software pops up the keypad wherever the user touches it.
Wherever the finger makes contact becomes a five; slide the finger upwards and release, and it’s a two; slide it downwards, it’s an eight, etc. The user can enter a whole phone number by Read the rest of this entry »
Google this week has just updated its Google Image Search interface for Safari on the iPhone. It’s finally starting to shape up as a rugged web app now. The main interface sees changes to the labeling of the images: gone are the long, useless original URLs and image titles. Now, all that’s left are the plain pictures themselves, smartly tiled to fill the iPhone’s small yet seemingly spacious display.
On Monday mobile phone users, including those with Apple’s iPhone, got a new way to sync and access information from the cloud. Called Google Sync, the new service lets you sync up both calendars and contacts from a specified Google account and will send changes over the air–both ways.
Google has released an iPhone-optomized interface for their Google Books search engine. Now, navigating to http://books.google.com/m/ on an iPhone or iPod Touch will take you to an iPhone-optomized version of the site. Using the new web app, users can browse their directory of over 1.5 million public–domain books, all of which can be read in their entirety right from the device, free of charge. Users can also search for words in the text and jump to individual pages.
Dataviz, makers of the popular DocumentsToGo mobile Microsoft Office compatible suite, are promising two bombshells at the Mobile World Congress trade show. According to an email they sent to press, they’ll be demoing DocumentsToGo for both iPhone and Android, as well as RoadSync for Android, an Exchange ActiveSync client that will connect Android phones to Microsoft Exchange servers.
This is big news. So far, there’s no full Office-compatible suite for the iPhone or for Android phones; QuickOffice’s MobileFiles Pro for the iPhone lets you edit Excel documents, but not Word documents. NitroDesk’s TouchDown connects Android phones to Exchange, but Dataviz’s products are usually considered among the finest in their fields.
Last month Google has started a new service Google Voice. This service allows calling on any phones. Google reserved more than 1 million numbers for this goal. However, Americans only can use the service, people from others countries have not got the same access. As for iPhone, Apple has rejected the application allowing to use Google Voice. They have said that the Google Voice apps “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. Moreover, Apple has deleted all Google applications from AppStore. Read the rest of this entry »
