Gmail checks for new email for you

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No need to repeatedly check Gmail for new messages any more!

Many of us are guilty of constantly switching back to Gmail to check for new messages. And if you’re like me, you’ve probably missed an important chat message because you weren’t looking at your Gmail window when it came in. If you use Google Chrome, these days can be over since we just launched HTML5 desktop notifications which display pop-ups whenever a chat message or new email arrives.


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via gmailblog.blogspot.com

Verizon’s iPhone hot spot will cost you $20 a month

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Verizon Wireless’ new iPhone will have a hot spot feature that allows up to five devices to connect to the Internet via the iPhone’s 3G data connection.

(Credit: Bonnie Cha/CNET)

via news.cnet.com

Print your documents in the cloud

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Now you can print from your Phone to any printer connected to Google’s Cloud. Although I rarely, if ever, use the printer anymore, I can see this as a great feature for those on the go that either need to print something out for someone else or have printouts waiting for them. Even more impressive to me is Google’s continued expansion into the cloud

via googledocs.blogspot.com

Google Task revisions on the way

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If you use Google tasks, as I have, I’m sure you’ll agree that they are OK but feature-weak. Google just announced today that they have a feature set in the queue, including:

  • Ability to create repeating tasks
  • Reminders and notifications (I like!)
  • Sharable task lists (I like!)
  • Tasks API and synchronization
  • Visual distinction for overdue tasks

Can’t come soon enough for me!

The Future is Flexible Displays

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This is one of those “geewhiz” technologies; a thin-as-paper display that’s flexible. Just watch the video

via mobilecrunch.com

Your Google can solve your Sudoku

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just when you thought there was nothing else for Google to help you with comes the Sudoku-solving feature of Google Goggles, a cool app for your Android phone

via googlemobile.blogspot.com

AT&T vs. Verizon iPhone Battle Shaping Up

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Consumers are poised to get a nice improvement in price and quality as a result of competitive market pressures. Three stories (below) today summarize it for me. Bottom line: if you’re in the market for a smart phone, hold onto your hat until Verizon launches the iPhone (probably before end of Feb at latest) and closely review your options.

AT&T drops 3GS price to $49 [great for the kids]

Verizon Confident it’s got the Muscle for iPhone

ATT already attacking Verizon

Verizon iPhone Jonesers, here you go

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It’s coming really, really close. Soon. very soon, Verizon users will have their iPhone. I’m curious about how this will impact the AT&T customers who typically hate the phone service. If Verizon can provide iPhone goodness with superior calling quality, AT&T is going to have a fight on their hands

Ah, the Verizon iPhone. In our bizarre careers as tech journalists, if there’s one question we’ve heard more than “When is Verizon getting the iPhone?” we can’t think of it. Also, outside the original rumors for the iPhone and iPad, we can’t think of another product so heavily teased by those in the know and those not in the know — though mostly by those not in the know.

via engadget.com

Netflix for Android shows up on LG Revolution | Android Central

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I was recently gifted a Netflix subscription and I’ve become instantly hooked to the instant video feature. I’ve long been hooked to watching videos on my EVO 4G. So this announcement is really getting me interested. Netflix-on-Mobile is going to be a monster hit

via androidcentral.com

Skype acquiring QIK. EVO 4G and other front-facing video mobile phone users cheer!

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When I first bought my Sprint EVO 4G, I naturally assumed that Skype was going to use its front-facing video camera in Skype calls. Well at first I was completely wrong because Skype wasn’t available on the phone at all. But Qik was and it claimed to use the front-facing camera. And it did. But the quality and experience sucked so bad I tested it once and never again even came close to it.

Today, Skype works on my phone nicely but the video is still off. I’m hoping that Qik’s team can (1) Integrate their video chat software and (b) Skype can make it work as well as their existing video chat works. If that happens, my initial dream of a front-facing video Skype call will have finally become reality.

via blogs.skype.com