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No EAS for Androi… Oh Look, Bing Mobile for Android (Verizon)! (Updated)

No comments August 30th, 2010 admin

While official support for Exchange ActiveSync for Android phones is apparently “months” away (unofficially some Android phones, specifically 2.2, and specifically not 2.1, may work), Bing Mobile hopefully will be able to divert your attention today by announcing Bing for Mobile on Verizon Android devices.

Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers. You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones’ Marketplace.

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The Android app features a 7-day swipe through Bing home page images, voice search, and “a pretty smooth mapping feature”:

First, Bing will automatically find your current location. You can then easily discover new places by category such as restaurants, banks, theaters and you can choose whether you want walking or driving directions. Swipe through each step of your directions, and check out how fast the map pans and zooms. For times when you only have one hand free and can’t pinch, there is the handy zoom-out button.

Are you on Android on Verizon? Let us know what you think once you download Bing Mobile for Android!

Update: Picturepan2 from LiveSino.net just pointed us to an InfoWeek article on Bing Mobile for Android, with news of a Microsoft / Verizon partnership:

Verizon Wireless Android customers have a new search option if Google Search isn’t their thing. Thanks to a deal between Verizon and Microsoft, Verizon’s Android customers can now use Bing.

The free application, which will be pre-installed on all new Verizon Android handsets, is free to download for all existing customers through the Verizon channel in the Android Market.

(emphasis ours)

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Making Sites Look Their Best in Standards Mode

No comments August 23rd, 2010 admin

IE has traditionally drawn a 2-pixel border around the content area of a site. This border, drawn as part of the page rather than IE’s frame, affects calculations of distance from the top and left of the page. It also creates a not-so-modern beveled look.

In the fourth Platform Preview, you’ll notice pages running in IE9’s Standards Mode no longer have the border. Here’s a before and after:

Before
webpage with 2px border

After

Pages that run in legacy document modes will still have a 2-pixel border so that any site calculations dependent on the 2 pixels remain the same as in IE8.

To make sure your site runs in IE9 Standards Mode and gets this and all the other latest features in IE9, use a strict doctype. We recommend the HTML5 doctype (<!DOCTYPE html>) since it’s simple and will put your site in Standards Mode in all current browsers.

John Hrvatin
Program Manager

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A Quick Look at the New StumbleUpon App

No comments August 23rd, 2010 admin

StumbleUpon for iPhone Social discovery engine StumbleUpon has released a new iPhone application, bringing the product’s web functionality to mobile devices.

For those of you unaware, StumbleUpon, which was established in 2001, is a service which allows its users to browse the web in a casual and possibly addictive way. It delivers random web pages to a user based on their personalized categories of interest and also benefits from social networking features. While using the service, users can rate pages up or down and share “stumbles” with friends and others.

The new application, which is available now for iPhone and Android devices, makes the experience mobile. To get stumbling on your iPhone, simply head over to the App Store and download the free 1.6MB application.

StumbleUpon for iPhone

Once the application is downloaded, installed and opened, the first thing a user will see is a screen prompting them to log in. If you’re one of the ten million people already using StumbleUpon, then go ahead and tap in your details. If not, the application has a handy link for signing up.

Once logged in, a user will be greeted with a number of options. Tap the Start Stumbling button to begin stumbling random websites straight away, or choose from a number of other options. New to the mobile application is the option to stumble content which is deemed “best’” for mobile devices. This includes photography (from either flickr or the rest of the web), news content or YouTube videos. If none of these choices strike your fancy, then a list of your preferred topics (set when signing up) will also be on offer.

StumbleUpon for iPhone

Using the application is fairly simple, with all the basic needs of stumbling content covered. While browsing stumbled content, a user can do the usual rating and stumble to a new page at ease. Sharing discovered content is also a breeze, with options to push your discoveries via email, Facebook and Twitter, or to another StumbleUpon-using friend. Sadly, the ability to leave your comments regarding a page, via a review, is missing, as is the ability to submit a new link to the StumbleUpon system.

Version 1.0 of the StumbleUpon application is available now, for free, from the Apple App Store. Will you be giving it a try?

Related GigaOM Pro Research: Unlocking Social Media Ad Spending

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An In-Depth Look at the Google TV Interface

No comments August 20th, 2010 admin

Google TV will include a podcast directory, giving users the ability to subscribe to shows and have future episodes show up in the same list as their DVR recordings. That’s one of the takeaways of an in-depth look at the Google TV interface, courtesy of the fine folks over at StuffWeLike.com (hat tip to Engadget).

StuffWeLike recorded a video of Google showing off its upcoming TV platform in concert with Dish at Comiccon, and the video features a detailed description of a number of features, including the previously demoed universal search capabilities, YouTube integration, a few early apps and a central element called Google Queue.

Check out the entire video embedded below, but here are some screen grabs of some of the highlights:

Universal Search across TV and video content, with the ability to extend the search to web pages as well.

Bookmarked websites.

YouTube integration. This doesn’t seem to be based on YouTube’s Leanback site yet, and the whole integration seemed a little half-baked. When selecting a YouTube video from search results, Google TV simply opened that video’s web page, and the person running the demo had to manually switch to a HD video resolution as well as full-screen mode.

Google Queue lists all the content available for playback, including podcasts and DVR recordings.

Users can manage their queue with content-based or date-based filters.

Part of queue is a podcast directory that offers access to audio and video podcasts from various genres.

This is the show page of the podcast directory, which offers direct access to the latest episode as well as options to browse previous episodes, or subscribe to the entire show, after which new episodes will show up in the queue automatically.

A few final thoughts: The focus on podcasts and other types of web content is definitely good news for web video makers, and it looks like Google TV could actually make watching these types as shows just as easy, if not easier, than regular TV. However, there seems to be a lack of apps, and one really has to wonder why YouTube isn’t better integrated.

Related content on GigaOm Pro: Google Takes the Open Battle to Apple on Multiple Fronts (subscription required)

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TechSpot: A quick look at the self-installing HP LaserJet P1606dn

No comments August 17th, 2010 admin

Before we get started, we’d like to say that we realize a printer is just a printer to most people. It consumes precious workspace, costs a fortune in supplies, and few geeks would marvel at a copy machine’s spec sheet. Along with that it should be made abundantly clear that…