Unlike push email, push notification on iPhone is much better. Google has updated their Google Mobile app for iPhone with push notification support. It will show a dialog box when you receive a new email or calendar notification. There is no way to miss the important information anymore. Search is now easier. It will show more related information when you type in flight info, weather, stock quotes or currency conversion. 【Via...

Google now shows the live search suggestions while you are typing in the search field. Here is something for the next level in the future. It may be able to show live search results as long as you change the text in the field. Take the video above as an example. The search results update instantly when the user change the text. There is no need to press enter key or click search. Google has confirmed this is real. It’s only running...

Today McAfee agreed to be acquired by Intel Corporation.  Obviously this is big news for McAfee, big news for Intel Corporation, big news for our combined customers, and big news for both the security industry and the future of the Internet. It’s the company’s common belief that security is a fundamental component of modern computing, and the acquisition reflects its increasing relevance in a completely connected world.  The...

Facebook has just launched the Places in their headquarter. It allows people to share locations with friends, as we all know. The concern is about the privacy controls. Facebook Places works using “check-in”. It has a map, and it shows the nearby and related places. One of the great thing about Facebook Places is that it integrates with photo tagging. The photos of you and your friends can now show the specific location. Places...

Can’t say we’ve heard of the Pleco Chinese Dictionary app prior to today even though it’s been around for two full version releases. Of course, we’ve seen plenty of Google Goggle-like smartphone apps that can snap pictures and then convert the image to text using optical character recognition (OCR) — something that can be incredibly useful when important stacks of business cards. Pleco 2.2, however, is...