Just a while after Google broke the news to the world, Google now officially releases the Visual Search to Android Market, and with an official name — the Google Goggles.  However, it is only for device running Android 1.6 and above.  I am holding a HTC Hero running Android 1.5, so no luck for me.  HTC, do you see this?  Please release the new firmware soon as we, the Hero owners, are losing a lot [...]

“Imagine you are on travel in Paris and you visit a museum. If a picture catches your attention you can simply take a photo and send it to the VMS service. Within seconds you will receive an audio-visual narrative explaining the image to you. If you happen to be connected to a 3G network the response time would be below a second. After the museum visit you might step outside and see a coffeehouse.” Hartmut [...]

Just after Microsoft has announced their new version of map for Bing, Google releases an updated version of Google Maps as well and it is now version 3.3. According to Google, the new version has a number of improvement.  One of the signification changes is that the favourite place your tagged (or starred) on your desktop will get synced to your mobile.  And it works the other way round as well. Try it out, star [...]

It is here, finally!  Google has just made Google StreetView available in Singapore.  You can now view the streets of Singapore using Google Map on your PC or on your mobile device.  First launched in May 2007, Street View is hugely popular worldwide and is available in more than 100 metropolitan areas around the world. Singapore is the first country in Southeast Asia to get Street View and the fourth country in Asia Pacific after [...]

Fring, the first company to bring VoIP to iPhone, has release a new version of the software that support video calls on iPhone.  However, due to the lack of a front mounted viewcam on iPhone, the video can only be done one way.  The video calls are done via the wifi network with IP connection.  If the next release of iPhone comes with a front mounted viewcam, a full featured video call will be a [...]

Look at the following Swype keyboard comparing to iPhone that comes with some of the Windows Mobile devices like the new Omnia II.  Although it might look a little bit bias but it is surely an interesting new way to input text from a virtual keyboard.  It might not replace the “traditional” virtual keyboard we are having now on many of own devices but it is nice to see people coming out with innovative ways [...]

Many of you may probably know and use Fring on many mobile devices.  It is a all-in-one social network software working on mobile device like iPhone, Winows Mobile, etc.  It supports services like MSN, Yahoo, Skype, Google talk, facebook chat, SIP, etc.  It supports presence, live chat and even VoIP calls.  It has many competitors but it remains one of my preferred app to consolidate all my accounts across different providers. It is now available [...]

Microsoft has just made the Office Mobile 2010 available on Marketplace.  However, it is only available to US market at the moment. You can find more information on the web here, or use your marketplace application on your Windows Mobile device.  The description of the app as described on the official web is as followed: “Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 brings the powerful Microsoft Office 2010 tools you use every day at work, home, or school, [...]

As many of you have already known, the new Motorola DROID comes with a beta version of Google Map with turn-by-turn navigation. There is a good news for people who own a G1 (Dream) phone in US.  Hackers from XDA-Developers have ported the application to the G1 phone (Dream).  Although the Google Navigation is meant for Android 2.0 phones, but it is running fine on the old G1. However, since Google Navigation is only working [...]

The challenge has ended, the Mozilla team has announced the winner of the Firefox Mobile logo design challenge.  It is a fox in a pocket.  Looks pretty cool, hah. “The results from the Mozilla Creative Collective’s “Firefox Goes Mobile” design challenge are in, and I’m happy to announce that the winner is “Pocketfox”, by Yaroslaff Chekunov. As the official emblem of the upcoming mobile version of Firefox, we’ll be using this image as an avatar [...]