In November, Google made Google Docs mobile friendly, allowing you to edit your documents from your mobile browser, but only in a restricted manner. However, they've now tweaked their incredibly popular web app so that the iPad has full editing powers. From your iPad, you can now switch between the … [Read more...]
Google's vaguely stalkerish friend-tracking app "Google Latitude" briefly popped up in the App Store before vanishing equally quickly and mysteriously. Latitude runs quietly in the background and tracks where you are, as well as showing all your friends on a map, allowing you to locate your … [Read more...]
Like everyone and their mothers, Google has decided that eBooks are the future, and they've put together their own eBook store, the aptly titled eBook Market. Hardly ones to ignore the mobile market, there are two ways to view your purchased books on your iOS device: either through their webreader, … [Read more...]
Google Instant, the insanely popular tweak to searching that shows results as you type, has now arrived on iOS. If you head to Google.com, you can opt out of it if you like, and seeing as it might be a bit of a bandwidth hog, I can see how you would. At present, it's only available from entering … [Read more...]
There's a mid-term election tomorrow, in case you hadn't heard, and Google is doing something small to make life easier for voters. They've developed a simple web-app that shows the nearest polling point, and gives you info on local candidates. Just head over to m.google.com/elections, and enter … [Read more...]
Google Goggles is one of those nifty wee features that has been only found on Android, until today. The augmented reality search tool lets you record an image, and then it tries to bring you more information about whatever you're looking at: Computer vision is a hard problem and Google Goggles is … [Read more...]
Google Goggles is one of those super-cool Android apps that we've always wanted to see on the iPhone, but haven't been holding our breath, due to the poor relationship between Apple and Google right now. Google Goggles is an app that lets you take a photo of just about anything, send it off to … [Read more...]
Google has just sent through an update for their Google Mobile App, one that allows push notifications for Google Calendars and Gmail over your iPhone/iPad. Ever missed an appointment or important email because you were away from your desk? Now Google Mobile App can help with push notifications … [Read more...]
Yay, more patent trolling! In fact, I'm calling it. We're making a new section on EiC — Patent Troll! Today we have a company called NTP, who have 50 patents under their belt, including one for wireless email. Using this patent, the previously sued RIM in 2000, and ended up getting $612.5 million … [Read more...]
The battle between Google and Apple is certainly heating up, so it was only natural that Steve was asked about the relationship between the two companies, as well as "platform wars" in general. Watching the video, it's interesting to see that Jobs admits to losing to Microsoft previously, even … [Read more...]
