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Today we've updated the Google search experience for BlackBerry 6.0 WebKit enabled devices. We've added a number of enhanced search features integrated throughout the homepage and search result pages, making searching faster and easier on www.google.com, especially on touch-enabled Blackberry devices.
Left: Improved homepage with autocomplete and search history as you type.
Right: See more information with search options and enhanced results.
- Enter searches faster: Save time by using autocomplete and search history queries that appear beneath the search box as you type.
- Web search: Find what you're searching for fast. Comprehensive results pages let you see relevant websites, images, videos, news, real-time results and more. Simply click on the arrow button '>>' to the left of the top search box for more refinement options.
- Image search: Swipe through image results quickly and easily on touch enabled devices. Start by selecting 'Images' at the top of www.google.com, then enter a search. From there, click on any image to view a larger size.
- Local search: Find restaurants, shops and other popular business categories with a single tap. Start by selecting 'Places' at the top of www.google.com, then click on an icon from the Places homepage.
These features and more are available on most RIM OS 6.0+ devices with WebKit browsers like the BlackBerry Torch and BlackBerry Bold 9780, and can be accessed in 20 languages across 70 countries.
To try out the new features, go to www.google.com in your mobile browser. We recommend that you bookmark Google Search to your phone's home screen, so that Google search is just one click away.
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Source: http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/06/improved-google-search-for-blackberry.html
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On the wide spectrum of physics-based iOS games, The Mooniacs sits somewhere between Angry Birds and Peggle. The game consists of launching the Mooniac characters — who have crash landed and become lost — and ricocheting, bouncing, sliding and trampolining them through each stage to collect the cutesy floating in-game currency called JujuBees.
Players have one chance to line up the perfect shot and collect as many JujuBees as they can. If they are unable to collect the required number of JujuBees, the level resets and they can try again until they have collected enough to progress to the next stage. The more JujuBees collected in each level, the higher the players score and the better their rating on each level. JujuBees can be used to purchase little extras in the game such as alternate endings and the like. The developer has also hinted that new game content will be unlocked as the number of cumulative JujuBees collected by everyone playing the game mounts to new levels. This add some extra, meta-level incentive to replay levels until every last JujuBee is collected.
Don’t look for a cardboard cousin of Cargo Runners in a brick and mortar store. There isn’t one. Developer Trouble Brothers is pioneering a new type of board game – one that doesn’t require a physical precedent. Instead, this is a virtual board game in all ways possible – and it works beautifully on the iPad.
Each turn, players roll the dice and make one of several possible choices: sometimes the need to move to another country and collect cargo is paramount, sometimes the decision is driven by the need to unload cargo as quickly as possible for a profit, and still other times the best decision is to cause as much mayhem as possible for an opponent. All are viable options, and it’s this sort of light strategic gameplay that makes Cargo Runners a game that can be played again and again.
In an interesting move, there is no AI present in this current iteration of Cargo Runners. Players can either choose to play locally (up to four around a single iPad), or online using Apple’s Gamecenter protocols. Since the game has just been released there aren’t a huge number of online opponents available, but I assume this number will grow exponentially in the coming days and weeks. Still, it would have been helpful to play a game or two against a computer opponent – if even a step-by-step tutorial game – before venturing out against other humans. The developers have wisely included a virtual rulebook to pull up at any point deemed necessary, but I’d still like to see a full tutorial integrated into the game at some point in the future.