Got the New Google Bar
I read that Google was going to be updating and getting rid of the Google black bar. I turned on my computer this morning and there it was…. in all its glory.  I’ll play with it to see how it suits me and guessing it will take some time to get used to… If you don’t have the new Google bar yet, Mashable has a [...]

Details we’ve all been waiting for… the Google Nexus One phone. We posted a Nexus One Android 2.1 walkthrough video earlier this month and today Engadget has managed to score a full spec sheet for the phone, as well as some details about its release date. According to Engadget’s source, the phone will initially be available by “invitation only.” It looks like Google will be [...]

A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at TechCrunch50. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods for small touchscreens are sorely needed. Today, the startup announced the first phone to use the technology will be the Samsung Omnia II on [...]

We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series. Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion. This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle being waged on the mobile front, between Apple’s still wildly-selling [...]