Google today announced that it has added a new option for AdWords advertisers to specifically target iPhones, T-Mobile's G1, and other mobile devices that have 'real' Internet browsers. Unlike the standard mobile AdWord ads that were targeted to appear on mobile web sites, this new feature will allow advertisers to target any mobile device with a full HTML browser. Google also points out that it is seeing 'a lot' of searches from iPhone and G1 users and the iPhone drove more traffic to Google.com during last year's holiday season than any other mobile platform.

Read more: readwriteweb.com 

Labels: ads, ADWords, iPhone, mobile

Google Mobile App helps you find the information you need quickly and easily with instant access to Google Search.

Search with your voice so you don't have to type.
Search with My Location makes finding business, weather, and movie info easy.
Suggestions appear as you type to save you time.
Launch Gmail, Google News, and more from one place.

Features

- Voice Search.New! Speak your queries without even pushing a single button.
- Search with My Location.New! Search for business, weather, and movie information without specifying where you are.
- Local search suggestions on a map. See nearby business suggestions on Google Maps -- just tap the "near me" suggestions.
- Instant access to search. Start a Google search with just one click.
- Google Suggest. Get relevant search suggestions as you type, saving you keystrokes.
- URL suggestions. Get to popular web sites quickly by tapping site web address suggestions.
- Contact search. Quickly find contacts in your address book.
- Search history. Get instant access to your previous searches.
- Easy access to other Google products. Launch other Google products like Maps, Gmail and News from the Apps tab.

Download: Google Mobile App for iPhone and iPod Touch or visit the iTunes store. 

Labels: apps, iPhone, iPod, mobile, phone

Google’s voice recognition search application for the iPhone, originally set for launch on Friday, will likely go live sometime Monday, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the situation.

Google was under the impression that the application would be live on the App Store on Friday (obviously, since they pushed all significant press attention to it). Sometime Friday they found out Apple wouldn’t be pushing it, despite the fact that Google submitted it for review earlier in the week and got a thumbs up for Friday. One source says they’ve had little direct contact with Apple during the review, instead getting their updates via the standard iPhone developer tool, which has said “in review” for the last few days.

Who knows why Apple delayed the application, or why they tend to treat every application developer equally poorly.

Read more: techcrunch.com 

Labels: apps, iPhone, recognition, search, voice

Yesterday arguably the top tech story of the day was Google’s introduction of voice search for its iPhone app. As of this morning the updated app still isn’t available in the iTunes store (that’s not Google’s fault). I spoke yesterday afternoon with Google’s Mike Cohen and Gummi Hafsteinsson about the app and how it would work. What they described was something that sounded qualitatively different in terms of accuracy and usability vs. competitive offerings now in the market.

Unfortunately no one has had an opportunity to try the updated app yet. But, if it works as promised, it should be quite impressive.

Read more: searchengineland.com 

Labels: iPhone, recognition, search, voice

SAN FRANCISCO--Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called OneConnect that can centralize communications and social-networking activity.

"OneConnect allows everybody to keep connected to the persons they care about. It's a socially connected address book," said said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Yahoo Connected Life, in a speech here at the CTIA Wireless show. "The address book now comes to life."

Read more: cnet.com 

Labels: apps, iPhone, mobile, Network, phone, social, Yahoo

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is among the many developers introducing iPhone applications through Apple's iTunes App Store. On Thursday, the search company introduced Google Mobile App, a free dedicated search application for the iPhone.

Given that iPhone users can already conduct Google searches through the search window in the iPhone's Safari mobile Web browser and through the Google Maps iPhone application that comes with the iPhone, the idea of a dedicated search app might seem like an overdose of Googley goodness.

But as Google mobile engineer Robert Hamilton explains in the YouTube video below, the Google Mobile App makes a nice addition to the iPhone.

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/07/searching-on-iphone-can-be-fun.html

It's faster to initiate a search using the Google Mobile App than it is to open Safari and search on the iPhone.

What's more, the Google Mobile App provides search suggestions as soon as you start typing. Trivial though this may seem, it can be a real time saver to have searches auto-completed after only a few characters have been typed.

Read more: informationweek.com 

Labels: Apple, iPhone, mobile, phone, search

Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.

One of Google's software engineers posted the news in a blog on Wednesday.

"In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you're on the move, too!" Adam Connors, of Google's mobile team said in the blog.

The application doesn't require any software to be installed or downloaded. Instead it works within the phone's browser, so users can simply go to the site www.google.com/talk, sign in, and start chatting.

Read more: webware.com 

Labels: instant messaging, iPhone, iPod, Talk

Boston (dbTechno) - Google announced on Monday that they are doing a major upgrade to their Web services offered to Apple iPhone users, just one day before the big Macworld keynote speech by Apple’s Steve Jobs.

Google stated on Monday that they are releasing improvements to the entire interface of the iPhone, which should upgrade it quite a bit and give it features it never had before. Google stated that the enhancements to the user interface are to allow for better response to touch-screen input.

Read more: dbtechno.com 

Labels: iGoogle, iPhone, Macworld, mobile, phone

Spotted by Google Operating System is a new iPhone specific interface for Google’s personalized webpage product iGoogle. The page can accessed directly from http://google.com/ig/i, although iPhone users should be immediately redirected to this page when trying to access iGoogle.

The new iPhone interface is a step up from Google’s previous offering of a mobile specific page at google.com/m which only offered limited customization options.

Read more: techcrunch.com 

Labels: iGoogle, iPhone, mobile, phone

Google has many products available for desktop and mobile users, but until today there wasn’t a specific area for Mac users to find products made just for them.

Google rectified that by introducing the Google Mac Developer Playground. The playground is a place where Mac users can look for new open source projects and demos.

The Mac playground opened with six projects online – Stats, GData, MacFUSE, iPhone Disk, Cover Story and Quartz Composer Patches.

Read more: macworld.com 

Labels: code, developers, iPhone, Macintosh

We heard a rumor that Google was going to launch a new interface for users accessing the site via an iPhone in the next few days. But an anonymous tip let us know it actually launched without any warning or announcement this evening.

If you visit Google.com from an iPhone, you now get a menu of services to choose from - home (search box), Gmail, Calendar, Reader and More (docs, sms, goog-411, news, photos, blogger and notebook). It’s basically all of the core Google services, accessible from a single easy to use menu.

Read more: techcrunch.com 

Labels: Apple, interface, iPhone, mobile, phone

The iPhone looks like it won’t support Flash but will still allow users to watch YouTube video clips thanks to a dedicated viewer that supports the newly H.264 encoded YouTube video format.

Just as the Apple TV is now YouTube compatible thanks to the H.264 format that YouTube’s video collection is being re-encoded with, so too is the iPhone able to display YouTube’s H.264 videos thanks to a special player iPhone users will see when visiting YouTube’s site.

Read more: itwire.com.au 

Labels: iPhone, phone, video, youtube

Since the next few weeks should get the iPhone hype to a fever pitch, we thought we’d kick things off with this lovely rumor. In an interview with the Seattle Times, AT&T’s president of national distribution, Glenn Lurie hinted that some additional Google applications may be headed for the iPhone.

Full article: wired.com 

Labels: Apple, apps, iPhone