Google Mail for Apple’s iOS Improved

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Google has announced that the Gmail app used on Apple’s iOS platform has been updated with new features added. Gmail is as popular with Apple device users as it is with those who access the email program via their desktop or Android phone.  Apple, however, has never seriously attempted to create a dedicated email program; [...]

Are Google Apps benefiting Apple?

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Apple tried unsuccessfully to try and create an alternative mapping application for use on its own products. While the idea might have been good, Apple’s own customers gave it and other software the thumbs down.  They preferred Google Apps instead. But although Apple will obviously be disappointed by its own customers’ reaction, personally I think [...]

Google outflanks Apple

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Apple may be dominating the mobile phone and tablet markets, but where applications are concerned it is Google that’s running away with things. It seems from recent research Google’s apps take up four places out of 25 in the popularity chart of free applications; Google Maps is at number nine. Now, you may be wondering [...]

Google Apps helping to promote Google’s main rival

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In a rather strange turn of events while Google is competing furiously with its main rival Apple, it appears that the company’s software is actually helping promote Apple’s products. While Google’s Android products – smartphones and tablets – are giving Apple’s a run for their money, Google Apps at the same time is helping Apple. [...]

From little acorns

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The old adage from little acorns grow mighty oaks is a very apt saying for one Google app creator. Appsbar created a free app builder that has become one of the most popular programs in the world.  So much so that the number of downloads grew from 100 to over 100,000 in just one year [...]

Google + for the iPhone

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Google and Apple may be having a litigious time of late, but it hasn’t stopped the creation of an app that let’s iPhone users connect with their Google plus account. Google + has caused something of a problem for many in the digital world.  Some love it; some hate it.  Personally, I am just unsure. [...]

Microsoft launches attack on an Apple app

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In the latest round of the war of words between the major digital conglomerates, Microsoft, I believe, has just launched an indirect attack on Apple.  Recently it attacked Google by creating a kind of spoof video on YouTube attacking Google Apps. However, this latest warning is an attack on a specific application called OnLive Desktop. [...]

US senator and digital companies to meet

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In the aftermath of a recent controversial decision by both Google and Apple to change their privacy regulations, both have agreed to meet US Senator Charles Schumer. It seems the politician raised a number of concerns and decided to launch a probe into Google’s and Apple’s activities.  This, I think, forced the huge conglomerates to [...]

Photo flaw on Apple and Google may be probed

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Recently both Apple and Google have been accused of not doing enough to fix a potentially harmful flaw in their operating systems. This particular problem relates to the ability for anyone to effectively steal other people’s images stored on their mobile devices, and publish them elsewhere without permission. The situation has so worried US Democratic [...]

Are Android apps more expensive than Apple’s?

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That’s a charge being labelled by the market research firm Canalys who has suggested that Google Apps are 2.5 times more expensive than their rival’s iOS software. I believe the way Canalys calculated this is by comparing the costs of the top 100 applications on both operating systems.  However, this statistical analysis has been criticised, [...]