Apple Buys Placebase. No More Google Maps?

Apple reportedly purchased the Placebase mapping service in July to possibly end its dependence on Google Maps, according to ComputerWorld. 
The first indication of this was a tweet on July 7th by Fred Lalonde, the founder of openplaces.org. 
“Apple bought PlaceBase - all hush hush. Pushpin site taken offline. Hyperlocal iPhone?” 
ComputerWorld did a background check on PlaceBase’s [...]

Google Latitude On iPhone

Google today demonstrated its Latitude location-based service running on the iPhone, according to a report by TechCrunch.
Google Latitude is a service which allows you to see where your friends are and what they are up to then quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call. The service is already available for Android phones; however, [...]

Google Revises iPhone OS/Android Gmail

Google has announced a major revision to Gmail for iPhone and Android devices.
—– 
Today we’re introducing a major revision to Gmail for mobile that takes advantage of the latest browser technology available on iPhone and Android devices. We’ve updated the user interface, made it faster to open messages, allowed for batch actions (like archiving multiple [...]

iPhone “miles ahead” of competing app stores | Report

A report on mobile applications sales ranked Apple’s iPhone App Store “miles ahead of the competition” as the leading software marketplace, based on timeliness to market, the ability to attract developers, and the “number, variety and appeal of applications available.”
Store wars
Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA) ranked Apple’s software sales through iTunes in comparison with Google’s existing [...]

RBC Compares iPhone’s Competitors

With Apple’s influence hanging over the Mobile World Congress event this week, the Royal Bank of Canada has released a comprehensive comparison chart of eight contenders that threaten to steal some of the iPhone’s customers.
Though the firm still sees the iPhone as solidly superior to its competition, analyst Mike Abramsky told clients he’s still concerned [...]

iPhone dominates Mobile World Congress 2009 without Apple

While reports have suggested that Apple may attend next year’s CES to “sit amongst its competition” in consumer electronics, the company has elected not to attend the GSMA Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona this week. That hasn’t stopped the iPhone from dominating talk at the mobile conference.
Journalists seem to find it hard to [...]

Android G2: HTC Magic Hands ON Video showing iPhone-Like Virtual Keyboard

Android G2: HTC Magic Hands ON from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

 Retweet This Post

Early Screenshots of Google Chrome for Mac

Update to: Google Plans The Release of Chrome for the Mac
Some very early screenshots of Google Chrome for Mac have been posted to show the progress made thus far.
In his blog pinkerton writes “It’s Alive!”.
The entire team made a tremendous amount of progress getting the cross-platform model and controller classes scaffolded, topped off with [...]