Apple had rejected last year an iPhone app built by Google, leading to a spat between the companies. Google has now found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice, the telephony management service whose iPhone-specific application Apple rejected last year.

On Tuesday, Google is launching a Google Voice web application that runs on iPhone devices with the 3.0 OS or later versions, as well as on Palm WebOS devices.

read more »

The biggest tech industry news story of the 2000s was undoubtedly the dramatic rise of Google. But will the search and online advertising juggernaut continue its dominance over the internet economy in 2010? Time will tell.

Google’s rivalry with tech firms is likely to get more intense in 2010. With Google, tech firms are up against the internet’s most-trafficked website and a money-making machine. Google is poised to rack up more than US$23 billion in revenues in 2009, with margins over 30%. With its huge cash reserves, Google has money to buy innovative start-ups (recent examples include On2, ReCAPTCHA and AdMob) to keep itself at the cutting edge.

read more »

Not to put too fine a point on it, but as decades go, the 2000s sucked. It’s hard to imagine a worse beginning than the dot-com bust followed by September 11. And the Great Recession as a grand finale?

read more »

Google has released a free dashboard tool in New Zealand designed to help businesses gain more insight into what is driving online traffic to their web listings.

read more »