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When it comes to mobile, Google is on the rage. Just yesterday we covered the search giant’s new iPhone-optimized search portal, and now we’re hearing they prepare to make their iPhone app voice enabled. This in turn would allow users to simply speak their query to the iPhone’s mouthpiece...
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The iPhone is well known for providing one of the best mobile web experiences, and apparently this (the experience) will be even nicer from now on. Google has announced that it has just enhanced the Google Search result pages as to offer iPhone and iPod touch owners a more efficient and user-friendly...
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Again and again we see both small and big companies “going the iPhone way.” The new one we spotted is a big name - Wal-Mart, which has just recently launched an iPhone-optimized website. Once you visit www.wal-mart.com from your iPhone/iPod Touch, you will be automatically redirected to the...
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Keynote Systems conducted a user satisfaction study on certain mobile Web sites being accessed via the iPhone and found that when asked to find a news story, read an article and search for a story on a specific topic, many iPhone users reported low satisfaction with the Web-surfing usability of the sites...
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Smartphones accounted for 25.8 percent of worldwide mobile web traffic in August, up 3.4 percent since May 2008, according to mobile advertising marketplace AdMob's latest AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. AdMob reports that Apple's iPhone 3G accounted for 2.9 million requests per day in August, and...
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The full scope of Google's mobile ambitions came into focus with last week's debut of the web services giant's new browser, dubbed Chrome. With its streamlined user interface, efficent search tools and multiprocess architecture, the WebKit-based Chrome has received largely positive reviews...
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The iPhone now accounts for one out of every 333 web hits worldwide according to market analysis firm Net Applications, which notes that the device's Internet presence reached new heights in the weeks following the iPhone 3G's July 11 retail release. Net Applications reports that iPhone web surfing...
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The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for the iPhone that promises users access to "all parts of the Internet" on their Apple device. The TV ad shows a person surfing through holiday-related Web pages on the iPhone while a voice says, "You never know which part...
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Instead of news about the iPhone 3G, how about news over the iPhone 3G? Global news network the Associated Press announced the launch of its free Mobile News Network native application for iPhone and iPod touch. The multimedia portal promises to automatically detect a reader's location, provide navigation...
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Google announced that it has released a new version of the Google Reader for iPhone. Still in beta, it promises to deliver much better, more desktop-like experience to the Apple handset owners. This new version is designed to offer many of the same features as the desktop, while making it quick and easy...
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Jeremy Liew has written a really interesting post on the Lightspeed Venture Partners blog (they’re a VC firm), pointing out that full web browsing on phones is on the rise, thanks partly to the iPhone. But at the same time, the size of these full web pages is increasing - the average web page has...
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Widgetbox has announced its iPhone widget gallery, which "extends the world's largest gallery of widgets to the screens of millions of iPhone users around the world." A range of select widgets are immediately available in the Widgetbox iPhone Gallery — including widgets for today's...