Mobile phones are the most dynamic gadgets these days as there is some or the other new improvisation in the mobile phones. The users of smartphone such as iPhone have a new resource at their fingertips with the newly launched iPhone app by Yahoo. Yahoo! Inc launched this iPhone app Yahoo Mobile 1.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch for the users to make their searches even quicker and easier on the power packed smartphone. The Yahoo!’s oneSearch is basically an app that will enable the iPhone user to get relevant search answers by speaking their query.

Mobile voice recognition is not at all a new to the users of smartphones as Google introduced the same kind of service much before Yahoo. However, Yahoo!’s oneSearch is different from the other voice recognition systems as the users can do a wide open search. The other voice recognition systems limit the search of the users by vertical categories like local lists and so on. Yahoo! Has managed to successfully get over this norm with their oneSearch. This app is available on more than 80 devices such as Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile, and of course including iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is easily available on the iPhone app store and can be downloaded for free.

Another striking feature of the Yahoo! oneSearch is that it supports search in eight languages. The app has also merged all the other Yahoo stuff such as news, mail, messenger, videos and much more. The app is designed specially keeping the iPhone in mind out of all the smartphones available in the market. So now finding restaurants, hotels, cafes and other places is much more comfortable over the iPhone. All one needs to do is speak into the iPhone and get a list of relevant details for your search. The other significant features that Yahoo app has are:

• Instant messaging
• Share photos
• Custom status message
• Landscape keyboard mode
• Report a problem feature
• Archive of recent conservation
• Stealth settings

I love my iPhone, but I’ve always harbored some contempt for its built-in Email application. Not because of the occasional message download issues and display quirks, but because the iPhone’s Email application has absolutely no search function at all. Given how much essential data is now stored in most peoples’ inboxes, from phone numbers to flight confirmations, this has been an endless source of frustration.

Today, these problems are solved: a new Y Combinator startup called ReMail has just released its application on the App Store, and it’s bringing full text Email search to the iPhone. The application is currently free during its Beta period, and you can grab it here.

Now, I know the first response people will have is that the upcoming iPhone 3.0 update is going to include Email search as part of the new Spotlight feature. This is mostly true - 3.0 will allow you to search through Email headers, which include the message’s subject line and its ‘To’ and ‘From’ fields. But that’s only half the battle. Spotlight omits the actual Email message, which accounts for a sizable chunk of an Email’s content.

So how is ReMail doing what Apple can’t? The company has built a server optimized for rapid Email search, which the iPhone client connects to and grabs results from in a few seconds. It works exactly as it should, offering suggestions as you type your query and presenting matches as threads so you can see the context that a result was found in. If you search for “Jason inbox”, it knows that you’re looking for a person named Jason in the folder “inbox”.

While the application requires internet connectivity if you want to search through your whole inbox, for most queries you won’t need a connection. ReMail has built in smart caching that locally stores all messages from the last two weeks, as well as any messages you’ve previously searched for (people often search for the same messages multiple times to look up things like phone numbers).

My initial reaction to the app was that it was great, but that it seemed to have a short shelf life - couldn’t Apple just update the 3.0 firmware to include full-text search? But CEO Gabor Cselle says that the iPhone simply can’t handle it in its current form. Even if the phone had an index of your Email stored locally (which would be costly in storage space), Cselle says that the iPhone doesn’t have the processing power to quickly scan through multiple gigabytes of messages.

ReMail was founded by Gabor Cselle, who completed his Master’s thesis on Organizing Email, worked on the Gmail team, and was also VP of Engineering at Xobni, which he left last year to pursue his own company. The company’s backers include Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh, who built a little application called Gmail (they also co-founded FriendFeed). These guys know what they’re doing.

But there are some caveats that may keep some people from using ReMail. There are a few UI quirks (it appears that the client doesn’t render HTML), and the maximum inbox size is 10,000 messages, which is smaller than some users would like. It would also be nice if the app could serve as a replacement to Apple’s mail application (you can forward and reply to messages in ReMail, but for some reason you can’t compose a new one).

The biggest issue, though, is privacy. ReMail works by sucking in your messages from your IMAP server and hosting them on its own server, which is optimized for rapid searching. Cselle says that the server is secure and that all messages are encrypted, but acknowledges that ReMail does have access to your Email. The company vows never to access or read any of it, unless they are given written permission to do so in the case of a support issue. That may not be enough for some people, especially those who deal with confidential information on a regular basis, but for most people it probably isn’t a show-stopper. It’s also worth noting that the same issues are associated with many other startups that host your private data.

The application will stay free throughout the ReMail Beta, with plans to switch to a $3.99/month subscription plan later on.

Resource:- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/11/y-combinators-remail-brings-full-text-email-search-to-the-iphone/

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The arrival in the market of the latest mobile gizmo, iPhone has generated a lot of buzz and activities. There is sudden rush to acquire this gadget and analyze its every feature. The announcement by Apple Inc. that it will allow third-party applications to be installed on iPhone has further fueled the want of developing new applications for this internet-enabled device.

Let’s for the time being forget about developing iPhone applications and leave that to software programmers and developers. One can start by importing Google Mobile Application on the iPhone by following some easy steps. In first step, go to the App Store and search “Google Mobile App” and install it. The next step is to enable voice recognition facility by clicking “Settings” at the bottom of the screen and sliding “Voice Search” to ON position. Now hold the iPhone to your ear and speak a query (for example, baby pictures). If you don’t get results just jerk your iPhone a little and it will know that you want to search. To use the other search options, just press the image of magnifying glass at the top left corner of the screen and it will bring up other search such as Maps, Images, News, shopping and Wikipedia. If you press an option of “Images”, it will again bring up your previous query (baby pictures). You can now say another query and continue searching the web.

So far, you are using the voice recognizable default web searching facility of the iPhone. For manually searching the web, you need to activate the onscreen keyboard by tapping twice on “Search” tab at the bottom of the screen. Web searching with the keyboard is very simple. When you type any query, the application will show the list of websites, previous searches and other suggestions. Finally, there is “Apps” tab at the bottom of the screen to get all other Google services such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Talk and other services.

Apple® today introduced the new fourth generation iPod® nano, the thinnest iPod ever featuring a sleek new design with a curved aluminum and glass enclosure, in nine vibrant colors. The new iPod nano incorporates Apple’s breakthrough Genius technology which automatically creates playlists from songs in your music library that go great together, with just one click. The new iPod nano also features a refined user interface, a high resolution portrait display and a built-in accelerometer which automatically switches to Cover Flow® when rotated and automatically goes into Shuffle™ mode when lightly shaken. The new iPod nano gives users up to 24 hours of music playback or four hours of video playback and is available worldwide immediately in an 8GB model for just $149 and a 16GB model for just $199. Both models come in silver, purple, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, (PRODUCT) RED and black.

“The iPod nano is the world’s most popular music player and we’ve made it even better for this holiday season,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think users are going to love the amazing new design, the automatic Genius playlist creation, as well as automatically going into Cover Flow with just a turn of the wrist.”

The new iPod nano—the thinnest iPod ever—features an elegant new design that beautifully blends a brilliant two-inch display with a gorgeous curved aluminum and glass enclosure. The new contoured design fits even more comfortably in your hand.