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Google Adds Push Mail to Sync for iPhone, Windows Mobile
In a blog post from the Google Enterprise Apps team, Google has announced that syncing iPhones and Windows Mobile phones with Gmail via ActiveSync now allows users to sync mail as a push account. Until now, users had to use ActiveSync (or Google Sync as Google likes to call it on the server-side) for calendars and contacts and exclude mail from syncing. Then the user had to setup their Gmail account as a separate IMAP account on the iPhone/Win Mo to get their email. It appears that push email is available to both the Enterprise and free personal account customers.
As far as I’m aware, we still have no word on whether Gmail will support some of the more advanced features of ActiveSync the way that Exchange (and now Zimbra 6.0) can. So far, Exchange competitor Zimbra can do things like initiate wipes to mobile devices, lock devices when an incorrect password is entered, and pause (and resume) syncing to the device.
Gmail has differentiated itself from the market, however, as being the only free email provider (that I’ve heard of) that offers push mail, contacts, and calendars via ActiveSync (or other similar way to your choice of device). Others (like Hotmail) aren’t even offering IMAP access to external mail clients to free customers.
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Sep 22nd, 2009
The $10 Free App
I don’t think it’s fair to talk about my Snow Leopard experience this weekend without talking about the hosing I took from the iTunes App Store this weekend. A coworker of mine and Digg both told me about the new Facebook app for the iPhone. My wife uses Facebook incessantly and I thought that she would be excited about it, but she never said a word. When I asked her about it she checked for updates on her iPod Touch and it said there were none.
Not one to give up easily, I checked the article that was posted on Digg and found out that others had had problems with their devices finding the update and the recommendation was to remove and reinstall to get the new version. So.. we quickly removed the old Facebook app and went to install the new one. Sadly, we were disappointed (more like she was mad and I was in trouble..) to find out that it required the iPhone 3.0 upgrade (her iPod was a gen 2 without the upgrade). Since the iTunes App Store is so closed and wont’ allow to get the older version, Facebook 3.0 did end up being the $10 free app for us..
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Sep 1st, 2009
Skype for the iPhone Arrives
Skype has released a client for the newest member of its mobile platforms today. The app is now available for download in Japan and will be available on Tuesday for US customers. According to early screenshots, contact management, chat, Skype-to-Skype calls, as well as Skype-to-phone calls are supported so far. A Blackberry version of Skype is expected to become available in May as well.
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Mar 30th, 2009
Google Releases Sync Software for iPhone and Windows Mobile
Google has released an application called Google Sync that will allow users of Google Calendar and Gmail to sync their contacts and calendars directly to the native calendaring and address book applications on their iPhones and Windows Mobile devices. The company released a similar application for Blackberry users last year and is extending that functionality to more users by offering the iPhone and Windows Mobile software. They are also now supporting phones that support SyncML for two-way contact synchronization as well. The product is being released as beta, but of course, I have to add the standard joke and ask, “what free Google product isn’t?”
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Feb 10th, 2009
So Easy a Child Can Do It
According to AppleInsider, a 9-year old boy in Singapore, Lim Ding Wen wrote an application for the iPhone called “Doodle Kids”. The app allows users to make drawings on the iPhone and he wrote it so his little sisters could draw on the phones or iPods. The boy’s father also has made an application and the two compare their stats each night. Ding Wen’s father reports that the boy is fluent in 6 programming languages already and has completed 20 programming projects since he started programming. The application has been downloaded over 4,000 times in the two weeks that it has been in the App Store, and is available for free to download.
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Feb 7th, 2009


