Martha Stewart invited our own Katie Boehret back to her show for a second time this week to share some of her favorite things from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The following is a link to Martha’s site for the video, which isn’t embeddable at this point, but we promise it’s worth the click. Katie kicks things off with Google Goggles.
Q: How much does it cost you to put that tiny searchbox on your iPhone web browser? See photo inside the red square. A: $100 million a year! According to a source of businessinsider, Google pays that money annually to Apple to be on the iPhone. Also interesting is the deal of Google Maps on the iPhone. Because Google and Apple are more and more competitors because of Google’s move to the Nexus One smartphone. Quoting the words of that the article and the source: “when Apple first introduced the iPhone, it hammered out its deal for Google Maps in two weeks. When Apple prepared to launch the iPhone 3G with GPS a year later, it was a six-month process “full of acrimony” to get the maps deal finished. Google wanted access to all sorts of data from the maps, but Apple didn’t want to give it up, according to this person.”
How it works out with the next generation iPhone 4G and the new iPad is a big guess. Maybe we are “BINGing” in stead of “GOOGling”…
via businessinsider
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The good thing of the competition between Google and Apple is that it will improve things possibly faster for the users. On of the improvements, announced
yesterday, is the mobile Gmail site. Using HTML5, Google claimed Gmail mobile loads 2-3x faster than April. Accompanied with performance chart, the following quote was putted down on the google mobile blog.
“I‘m happy to report that Gmail for mobile loads 2-3x faster than it did in April (see Figure 1). In fact on newer iPhone and Android devices, the app now loads in under 3 seconds. So yes, the mobile web can deliver really responsive applications.”
I am not often use the mobile web version of Gmail, however, I tried it and I must say it is faster than ever. I must confess that I changed another performance thing, namely I replaced my providers DNS with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which is Google’s Fast DNS. That said, my native Apple iPhone app also uses Google’s Fast DNS which should also load faster?
Released over a year ago for the PC, Google’s wonderful Chrome browser has been purgatorial on the Mac for far too long, but now that’s all over: Google has finally released Chrome in beta form for OS X.
Mac users have a duty to download the beta and help Google finish it — it’s a great [...]
Released over a year ago for the PC, Google’s wonderful Chrome browser has been purgatorial on the Mac for far too long, but now that’s all over: Google has finally released Chrome in beta form for OS X.
