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Daily Update for May 1, 2013

by Steven Sande (May 1st, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

How to turn off Google Now and keep your battery charged

by Mike Schramm (May 1st, 2013)

Google has recently added its Google Now service into its search app for iOS, but there's one big drawback to getting constant weather, traffic, and other local information on your phone: Location Services runs constantly. You can tell by the little arrow icon up in the corner of your home ...

Osito wants to be Google Now for iOS, a bit too late

by Mel Martin (Apr 29th, 2013)

Osito is a free iPhone app that tries to do what Google Now has done for Android phones (and now the iPhone), which is provide a time- and location-aware app that supports your daily schedule with weather, traffic, travel news and more. [The previously launched Tempo calendar is another ...

Google Now added to search app on iPhone, iPad

by Steven Sande (Apr 29th, 2013)

Google has updated its search app for iOS to version 3, adding a tool that until this point was available only on devices running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or better -- Google Now. Now adds some impressive features to your device. As Google notes, it adds "the right information, at just the right ...

Google Now isn't awaiting approval

by Steven Sande (Mar 21st, 2013)

Perhaps you're an iPhone user who has been wistfully looking at the features of Google Now on a number of Android phones and hoping that someday, your phone would be able to perform many of the same functions. According to a comment made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt today at the Google Big Tent ...

Google Now for iOS? Promo video appears, removed

by Michael Rose (Mar 12th, 2013)

Users of Android's recent editions have been exposed to Google Now, the "before you know you need it" search tool. Google Now tries to look ahead at your schedule and physical location to let you quickly access the most relevant results -- traffic for your commute, flight schedules for your ...

Intelligent personal assistant Cue adds support for iPhone calendars, iOS 6

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 28th, 2012)

One thing that stands out in our modern digital age is the sheer volume of information that we must process. There is so much information coming at us from our calendars, emails and social feeds that it seems like we have information everywhere -- and never where we want it to be. This ...