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Has Do@ Made Mobile Search Interesting?

Search, whether it’s on mobile or the desktop, isn’t very interesting.  I rarely bother with the Google app or the Bing app, and only use iOS’s built-in search to quickly find an app.  It’s not that the applications aren’t good; it’s just I don’t have cause to use them, or know where to find the [...]

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Google Goggles Comes to iPhone App

Google said that their visual search tool, Google Goggles, would be making it on to the iPhone soon, and here it is.  Available as an update to their existing Google app, it’s symbolized by a small camera icon next to the search bar.  Once you press this, you’re taken to a camera view and free [...]

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Apple Purchases Siri

We took a brief look at Siri Assistant back when it was released at the beginning of February, and marveled at its ingenuity and innovation.  It seems we weren’t the only ones paying attention to this exciting little application, as Apple were obviously hot on the trail of the company behind Siri long before this, [...]

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Apple removes “Google” search in OS 4

It doesn’t really come as a surprise that Apple is trying to distance itself from Google, especially considering that the Android’s popularity is growing by the day (it’s still nowhere near that of the iPhone.) In tearing apart all the new features in iPhone OS 4, iLounge has discovered that Apple swapped out the “Google” [...]

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White Pages App Review

The other day I came home to yet another bag of phone books on my front door step. I wondered who even uses these clunky, annoying things anymore. Nowadays, if we need to find a local business we simply jump on the internet or call information. The only problem is we don’t always have access [...]

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Microsoft Releases Bing iPhone App

Microsoft has just release an iPhone app for their Bing (free at the App Store) search engine. While the move may seem odd, it makes complete sense for Microsoft to want a mobile app presence for Bing. After all, Google’s iPhone app has been out for some time, and it offers a useful voice search [...]

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Amazon Throws Some Neat Features into its App

Attention online shoppers, Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, has launched a new free iPhone App which will be called the Amazon Mobile App. Like the name suggests, the app allows users to search the online retailer’s database of products, compare prices and read reviews through a nice simple interface. Now here’s where things get [...]

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Mozilla Confirms Mystery iPhone App

The Apple iPhone has been earning quite a rep for attracting the interest of some of the biggest software companies on the globe and it looks like another powerhouse player is about to come on board. Mozilla, a company well known for its Firefox browser, confirms that their first iPhone app is on its way. Unfortunately, little [...]

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Showtime: Hot Popcorn App Review

So it’s Friday night and you’re out with your friends and have nothing to do. You could go bowling, but that’s too expensive and probably packed. You could go mini golfing, but the course is probably filled with Jr. high kids. Or you could go catch a movie, the only problem is you don’t know [...]

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Google Mobile app with voice search is now available

As much as I dread adding a third post about a single app all within just a few days, it is important to point out that the Google Advanced Voice Search app is now available in the App Store — but there may be a slight catch in getting the app downloaded. Well maybe not a [...]

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