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OT: Google’s Holiday gift is huge, but you likely won’t see it

December 21, 2009

Here is one of those times  that Google’s “Don’t be evil” seems to come into play. Instead of simply offering special Holiday sales (though there is a storage space sale), they seem to have launched a huge, albeit vague PR/Humanitarian campaign involving $20 Million and a list of charities. I’m not playing the Doubting Thomas [...]

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Google is focusing on HTML5: could mean better support for web apps on the iPhone

December 2, 2009

Google recently announced that they are stopping development of Google Gears, the software that allows web applications to store files on your computer for offline access (essential to Gmail Offline, etc.). Instead, they’ll be focusing their efforts on HTML5, which features similar functionality to Gears, but with the advantage of becoming a new web standard [...]

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Google Says Apple Did Reject the Google Voice App

September 18, 2009

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From a post at Apple Insider today:
Google’s letter directly contradicts Apple’s own claim that the Google Voice application was not outright rejected from the App Store. Apple, in its own note to the FCC, said it simply had not accepted the software, essentially leaving it in a state of limbo. Google, however, [...]

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Google Calendar speaks CalDAV to the iPhone

June 23, 2009

When Apple announced that the iPhone OS 3.0 would fully support CalDAV with SSL, I was excited to see if this, combined with my Google account, could take over and serve my personal calendar and email needs, which have been provided by MobileMe from the day it launched last year.
Google has already had push synchronization [...]

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So Long to iGoogle’s iPhone Optimized Site

January 21, 2009

Google has recently decided to get rid of its iPhone-optimized, single-column based site for iGoogle. iGoogle is their widget-based ‘your customized Google’ site which let you see the RSS feeds you want, your local weather, Gmail and pretty much whatever else you want as a personal home page option.
As Erica Sadun at Infinite Loop [...]

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Google Talk announced for iPhone

July 3, 2008

Google has just announced that it will be providing Google Talk for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As Google Talk will be a web application, you won’t need to download it from the AppStore, and your iPhone does not have to be jailbroken to use it. To view the Mobile Safari-based Google Talk page, point [...]

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