Google Book Search has just been announced for iPhone and Android, letting iPhone and T-Mobile G1 owners read millions of public domain books on their blower. Will this kill the Amazon Kindle? Has the Sony Reader had its chips? Find out after the jump!
February, 2009
Has the Xbox update issued this week given your Xbox 360 a red ring of death (RROD)? We’ve taken everything we’ve been told to Microsoft – hear what it has to say after the jump.
The conventional wisdom is that celebrities have two gadgets of choice – there is the BlackBerry for the P Diddy-style ‘I am my own business empire’ types (and, of course Presidents) and the iPhone for the more glamorous end. Stephen Fry has both, of course.
Hold on, though – there is a new starlet in town. The T-Mobile G1 has made its first small screen appearance – hobnobbing with the glamorous ladies of the now Beverly-Hills-free 90210.
OS X Snow Leopard is to get better multitouch support and location tools, thanks to Apple bringing iPhone technology to the next version of its operating system. Of course, all this is most important to portable computers. Mac tablet, anyone?
Google Latitude, the location-aware social networking add-on to Google Maps for Mobile is not the first such ‘friend tracker’ but it is the first one that has come under widespread scrutiny over privacy and security. Privacy watchdog Privacy International has reacted strongly to the launch of the software this week and called upon Google to make some changes to the way the system works.
That’s enough work for one morning – it may be cold outside but that’s no excuse not to take a continental lunch and knock off for a while. Start with the lunchtime lowdown, and graze upon all the tech news of the day so far, after the jump!