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Twitter Launches for iPad

iPad user? Twitter user? Today just may be your day (I know, we say this a lot). Twitter has today released their official application for iPad, and preliminary reviews suggest that it just might be the best application Twitter’s ever fabricated for a mobile device.

Twitter has made good use of the iPad’s 9.7-inch display, as you can tell from the screenshot above (courtesy: Gizmodo). In addition, multi-touch functionality is an integral element to the application — which some suggest actually makes the application fun to use.

Most of you know that I personally don’t Tweet (though you should follow us on Twitter), so I can’t really comment on what I think about the app.

What about you? Any good, you think?

Bing Application for Android Smartphones Now Available

Microsoft announced today on the Bing Community blog that the official Bing Mobile application is now available for Android-powered smartphones on the Verizon Wireless network only. Just as in other platforms, Bing Mobile for Android offers several features. For instance, as soon as the application is open, users will be greeted with a new image everyday just as the desktop version. Users will also be able to see up to seven previous images.

More importantly, the app allows users to search for new, images, movies, local establishments, and just about anything. Bing Mobile for Android also features endless scrolling results. In addition, users can search for items visually or by voice. The latter is pretty similar to Google Voice Search. However, is less advanced, as users are not able to grab directions.

Adobe Introduces New Features to Photoshop.com

San Jose, California-based Adobe announced yesterday in an official press release the introduction of new and revamped features to Photoshop.com, including Express Editor, Photoshop Express Organizer, and Photoshop Express Uploader, which allow users to easily edit, organize, sync, and even share their photos online. Additionally, an account is no longer required to quickly edit images. Do take into account that users will only be able to upload the images, edit them, and save them back to their hard drives. Registered members get benefits such as online storage and more for free.

The Photoshop.com website itself has also been updated with new navigation to allow users to easily access content such as product information, tools, and more. Users can now even share tutorials with their friends through either Facebook or Twitter.

Adobe also announced the introduction of Photoshop Express 1.3 for Android-powered smartphones. The new version allows users to view and share videos from their Photoshop.com library. The new version also updates the existing Facebook Photo Upload feature with various performance improvements. Photoshop Express 1.3 for Android is now available in the Android Market.

To learn more, check out the press release in the full post.

Netflix For iPhone and iPod Touch Now Available

Image Courtesy: BGR

Ever since Netflix made its debut for Apple’s iPad, both iPhone and iPod Touch users are been anticipating a version for their respective devices.

Luckily, Netflix has updated their application to now support both iPhone and iPod Touch devices! Users of the smaller devices will be able to stream TV shows and movies, with access to their instant queues. Quite revolutionary.

Users looking to take full advantage of the application can go ahead and download it by following this iTunes link. A full press release link is available after the break.

Still No Google Voice Application for iPhone

Despite all of the progress made by Google Voice to date, including the newly-introduced Google Voice integration into Gmail, it seems that iPhone and other iOS devices for that matter will not be officially getting a native Google Voice application anytime soon.

Google Voice Product Manager Craig Walker was asked about the possibility of a Google Voice application for iPhone today at the Google Voice/Gmail Press Event at the Google offices in San Francisco, California, to which he responded that “nothing has changed” since the FCC investigation last year.

Luckily for iPhone users, Google along with other companies have made available web-based Google Voice applications.

Google Finance Website for Mobile Gets Revamped

Mountain View, California-based Google announced yesterday on Google Finance Blog that the official Google Finance website for mobile has been revamped for both Android and iOS devices. The new mobile website offers almost all of the features and functionality that users can find on the desktop version. According to Google, the new Google Finance site for mobile can be accessed when searching for stocks or by clicking the Finance tab on the Google Mobile homepage.

The company also informs that an official Google Finance application is available for Android-powered smartphones. The app can be found in the Android Market.

Let us know what you think of the new Google Finance website for mobile when you check it out.

Twitter Application For Android Updated To Version 1.0.3

Posted to the Android market without and hint of a changelog, Twitter has posted up version 1.0.3 of Twitter for Android on the Google App Market. Fortunately, the update announcement came in the form of a tweet late Monday night — making note that the update would fix “lots” of bugs in previous versions. In addition, the update would also use OAuth for user logins.

We can’t exactly say the application is a drastic improvement from the previous version, though it probably is safe to say that the update was necessary.

What are your impressions of the updated Twitter application?

Google Earth for Android Updated to Version 1.1

Mountain View, California-based Google announced on the Google LatLong Blog that the Google Earth application for Android has been updated to version 1.1. The new version includes a new feature that allows users to explore the Earth’s oceans right from their Android-powered smartphones.

Additionally, Google Earth for Android 1.1 includes the new “Explore the Ocean” layer, which features photos and videos of various underwater wonders taken and provided by several contributors, similar to the Ocean Showcase on the desktop version of Google Earth, which was introduced earlier this year.

Version 1.1 of Google Earth for Android has been equipped with Flash support, allowing owners of smartphones with Android 2.2 to watch YouTube videos right from the pop-up balloons. The application also includes a new multi-touch gesture that allows users to change their viewpoint by using two fingers instead of the on-screen button.

Google to Make Goggles Available for The iPhone Later This Year

It seems that Mountain View, California-based Google will make its “Goggles” visual search and optical character recognition [OCR] application available for the iPhone later this year. The Goggles application, which Google introduced in December 2009 for the Android platform as part of its Labs experiments, allows users to easily translate text and identify products such as books, pieces of artworks, landmarks, and more by just taking a photo of them.

“We’re working on an iPhone version, and hope to have it out by the end of the year,” indicated Google Staff Engineer David Petrou today at the Hot Chips Conference at Stanford University in California, referring to a Google Goggles app for iPhone.

Petrou explained that porting Goggles to the iOS platform is not a walk in the park. “It’s actually a significant penalty [having] different code bases,” he stated. A solution that has been considered is building a web application.