Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Book Search for iPhone and Android

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googlemobile.blogspot.com - 2/6/2009

Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Book Search for iPhone and Android

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Over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on iPhone and Android devices. Just go to books.google.com/m in your mobile browser. You can search for a title, author, or subject. Or you can browse the list of "Featured ...

venturebeat.com - 2/10/2009

Source: Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android, and Google complied

— venturebeat.com — One of the bigger complaints about T-Mobile’s G1, the first phone based on Google’s Android platform, is... that its touch screen doesn’t use multi-touch, the technology which allows for a screen to accept multiple points of contact as simultaneous ... (more) Source: Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in ...

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google.com - 2/4/2009

Google Latitude

— google.com — Google Latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile on these phones: Android-powered devices, such as... the T-Mobile G1 iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon) most color BlackBerry devices most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices most Symbian S60 ... (more) Google Latitude

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google.com - 2/9/2009

Google Mobile - Sync

— google.com — Features Synchronize your contacts. Get your Google contacts quickly and easily to your iPhone. With Sync, you... can have access to your address book at anytime and place that you need it. Get calendar alerts. Using your iPhone's native calendar, you ... (more) Google Mobile - Sync

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iPhone Buzz — ... These page images work well when viewed from a computer, but prove unwieldy when viewed on a phone's small screen. Our solution to make these books accessible is to extract the text from the page images so it can flow on your mobile browser just like any other web page. This extraction process is known as Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short). Just point your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m. Happy mobile reading! [via Google Mobile Blog]

Google Book Search for iPhone
Top iPhone News — ... page images work well when viewed from a computer, but prove unwieldy when viewed on a phone’s small screen. Our solution to make these books accessible is to extract the text from the page images so it can flow on your mobile browser just like any other web page. This extraction process is known as Optical Character Recognition (or OCR for short). Just point your mobile browser to http://books.google.com/m. Happy mobile reading! [via Google Mobile Blog]

Google Books for iPhone adds 1.5 million reading choices to iPhone/iPod touch
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... We went on a Google News strike yesterday (every day more Apple-Google news!!) but this one is a bit too good to pass up. Google Mobile Book search is now available for iPhone (and Android). We'll let Google go from here: ...

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Official Google Blog: Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices
googleblog.blogspot.com 2/9/2009 — One advantage of storing information online is being able to access it from anywhere, on any device. Last year we released a tool for Blackberry devices to sync Google Calendar and Gmail contacts with the pre-installed calendar and contacts ...

More Ebooks Available for the iPhone/iPod touch
db.tidbits.com 2/9/2009 — Although Amazon.com's new Kindle 2 ebook reader is garnering most of the headlines in the ebook world at the moment, I think a pair of mobile-related announcements from Google and Safari Books Online may make more of a difference for the future of ebook reading. Google Book Search -- Last ...

News: Google launches Google Book Search for iPhone — iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond

Google has launched a mobile version of its Google Book Search service. The new iPhone- and iPod touch-friendly interface gives users access to over 1.5 million public domain books directly from their device. The books have been optimized to be read on a small screen, and are available for free. ...

Google Book Search Mobile for iPhone puts 1.5 million books in your pocket — MacDailyNews

What if you could access literature's greatest works right from your iPhone?

Google releases Books browser for iPhone — The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Despite the fact that the App Store is capturing everybody's attention, old-school (as in, about 8 months ago) mobile web apps are still worth checking out, too -- Andy Ihnatko reports that Google has put their Google Book Search web app in iPhone form, and the result is awesome: 1.5 million ...

Google Just Added 1.5 Million Books to your Phone — jkOnTheRun

Now is a great time to try reading eBooks if you never gave it a shot. Why? Google has 1.5 million public domain titles scanned and digitized in a small-screen format . Basically, if you can get to http://books.google.com/m on your phone’s browser, you’ve got access to all of these ...

Google Optimizes Book Search for Mobile — WebProNews Feed

Google has launched a long overdue mobile version of Book Search for the iPhone and Android. This includes access to over 1.5 million mobile public domain books. read more

Google and Amazon debut cellphone e-books, eye strain — Engadget

Sure, we pretty much figured that the V-Book (which is actually not a book at all) would be the final nail in the coffin of what was once known as "literature," but it looks like both Google and Amazon have other plans. Not only have there been rumblings of a new Kindle , but Amazon has ...

Google’s Book Project Goes Mobile - Will iPhone Kill the Kindle? — Cult of Mac

Google’s Book Search Project launched mobile editions of its 1.5 million book virtual library Thursday, immediately turning iPhone and iPod Touch into compelling options for those looking for a good eReader. Of course handy free apps for Apple’s mobile devices, such as Stanza ...

Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader: Watch Out Kindle — Macworld

Waiting for the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader is no fun. But if you already have an iPhone or a T-Mobile G1 in your pocket, more than a million books are available.

Google brings Shakespeare and Twain to your iPhone — Macworld

Google has adapted its Book Search for the iPhone and its own Android platform.

Google and Amazon bringing more books to cellphones — MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Google and Amazon have both taken steps to widen the availability of e-books, bringing a large number of titles onto mobile phones, according to the New York Times. iPhone and G1 owners will now have free access to the 1.5 million public domain books that Google has scanned so far for its ...