Google has introduced a new version of its Google Goggles app for Android smartphones.
Previously the standard application allowed users to search online by taking photos from within the app; this new version can also work in the background to analyse all photos taken by the phone.
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Location and navigation company TomTom is putting its local search service on portable navigation devices, iPhones and Android smartphones from this summer.
TomTom Places combines the company's business listing and POI database with its maps, helping people to find the type of business they're looking for.
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Google and brand agency Digitas have announced a partnership to produce mobile marketing research that'll help predict trends. The first results focus on Mother's Day in the USA, which was on 9th May this year.
33% of Google search queries on that day for the term 'flowers' came from mobile devices...
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This week's edition of The Fonecast takes a look at mobile payments, OS updates, SMS revenue and Bing meeting BlackBerry.
We also turn the clock back a couple of years to 2009, when former Olympic athlete Steve Backley talked to us about his mobile phone business.
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Google has updated its Google Goggles visual search application with a feature that allows users to suggest their own results if the subject of a photo can't be identified.
The app, which searches the web to identify pictures taken using the phone's camera, can provide results for a variety of queries - from artwork to business cards.
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