Google has launched Google Shopper, a new Android application that lets people use their camera phones to get product information in various ways. Users can scan the cover art of books, CDs, DVDs and video games and most barcodes to find reviews, pricing and other product details. Shopper also allows users to search products by [...]
Google has announced a new Android mobile app called Google Shopper. Here’s a quote from the blog post announcing the Google Shopper Application
Speak the name of the product you’re looking for. Use (Google) Shopper to make smart decisions about what to buy, what price to pay, and where to buy it. You can star items [...]
Just as the Internet has evolved over the past decade, cell phones have become much more than devices for making and receiving phone calls. Today, smartphones can do everything from email, to sync with our desktops, to turn-by-turn driving directions.
As the editor of a blog that covers technology, one of the questions I’m most often [...]
Oct 12, 2009 at 9:47am ET by Greg Sterling
While search is the “front door to the internet” on the PC, the same cannot be said of mobile devices. Apps, bookmarks and other ways to access content have become at least as useful as the Google search box on a mobile device. While Google will laugh [...]
Google Home Page Bar Code Logo Celebrates the 57th Anniversary of the Bar Code Patent by Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952, when they were granted Patent No. 2,612,994
The bar code is ubiquitous and is used everywhere – soon to make it’s way to cell phones for instant mobile payment and additional [...]
Adobe on Monday announced partnerships with numerous handset operating system makers, including Research in Motion, Nokia, Palm, Google and Microsoft, to bring Flash Player 10.1 to smartphones. Absent from the list: Apple.
Flash 10.1 is expected to be available as a public beta for Google Android and Nokia’s Symbian OS in early 2010. Developer betas of [...]
Last November, a site called Android Community posted a dicsussion thread titled “Squatting on Android Domains – Are You Guilty?” and then listed that Google had moved a large collection of Android based domain names to point at Google DNS servers (though none resolve to a destination as of this evening). These domains are all [...]