Google Maps Navigation is bad news for GPS companies
Google recently announced their new mobile application for Android powered smartphones.
Google Maps Navigation aims to offer free GPS powered navigation on mobile devices.
It is pretty powerful with integrated Google Street View and Voice Search.
And the best thing about it is that it would be provided as a [...]
Google Maps Navigation for Android would be free!
Google is all set to shakeup the GPS navigation market.
The company has announced that they would soon launch a new mobile application for the Android devices.
This new application is named Google Maps Navigation and it would be offered for free.
It would require a GPS [...]
Lala.com mobile app coming soon on Apple App Store
Apple App Store could soon become home to yet another challenger to Apple iTunes.
Lala has submitted their innovative mobile application and they are waiting for Apple to review it before it can be used by iPhone users.
This application would be provided for free. Though [...]
Gmail on Apple iPhone gets Auto-expanding Compose Box
Google has announced that they have updated Gmail for the Apple iPhone.
Gmail for iPhone now has Auto-expanding Compose Box which makes it easy to compose longer emails.
It also makes it easy to go through a draft email message before it is sent.
Auto-expanding Compose Box removes [...]
Twitter on mobile in Japanese
Twitter has launched a new mobile edition of their service for users in Japan.
Japanese is now the only language supported by Twitter along with English.
The company has already stated that they are working on adding support for more languages in the near future. Spanish, German, French and Italian [...]
TechCrunch confirms that Google Wave works on iPhone and Android
Google might not have stated it officially but they have obviously been working to make their Wave platform compatible with mobile browsers.
TechCrunch has reported that Google Wave works fine on Apple iPhone and Google Android based browsers.
Both of these are based on the [...]
Quick Search Box comes to Google Android!
Google Android developers have added a more powerful search tool to this mobile platform.
The new edition is named Quick Search Box similar to the offerings on the desktops.
Google Android Quick Search Box has been developed by the same guys who coded Quicksilver app for the Mac [...]
Apple might replace Google Maps with their own product
Apple had acquired Placebase earlier this year.
The company has not announced any new product or service as part of their acquisition.
However, the interesting point here is that Placebase provides service which is very similar to Google Maps.
PlaceBase’s founder and CEO, Jaron Waldman [...]
Apple App Store: 2 billion apps served!
Apple has crossed another milestone with their mobile applications store.
Apple App Store has now served more than 2 billion applications.
This means that the store is currently delivering around 6.6 million downloads a day!
This number is pretty phenomenal.
Apple has in fact managed to deliver the [...]
Nokia acquires Dopplr
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia continues to acquire more web services as they aim to expand into this market.
Nokia is already the world’s biggest mobile phone maker but they have been focusing a lot on generating revenues through mobile services.
Dopplr said in a blog post about the deal:
The acquisition does not [...]
