While Google continues to crow about Android market share, it's got to be pretty embarrassing for them to testify under oath that iOS owns their mobile search traffic.

Finally! I don't have to download a different browser to explore the seedy underbelly of the internet, I mean, protect my privacy on sensitive websites.

The mobile browser version Google Maps got a makeover on Android and iOS devices, which makes it alot more like the desktop and native app versions of the service.

So just what kind of Safari speed improvements can you expect when iOS 4.3 rolls out? I think the word you're looking for is "moderate." Or maybe "incremental." Still, faster is faster, and this test over Wi-Fi shows that iOS 4.3 is a definite uptick.

360 Panorama's a nifty app for shooting 360-degree images with your iPhone wherever you happen to be. It just got better with an update that lets friends view those panoramas by spinning their own gyroscopically-capable iPhones around wherever they are.

The newest mobile Safari-optimized version of Gmail isn't a breakthrough, but offers some much appreciated improvements. Namely, a snappier, near-perfect inertial scroll, and a persistent toolbar that will follow you through your inbox for easier navigation. [Google Mobile Blog]

Apple's move to ban Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler elicited shrugs from Adobe and complaints from Adobe loyalists. Digging deeper into the OS reveals another, albeit less dramatic slight: Apple scrubbed Google's name from the new OS's Safari search button.

With iPhone 3.0, websites can snag your location in Safari. Now if you search for something in Google and let it see your location, it'll show you stuff nearby that matches, like coffeeshops here. It's just the beginning, surely. [Google]

In the last day, Apple has started approving quite a few "new" browsers in the app store, seeming to contradict their long-standing "duplication of functionality" prohibition. The catch? They're all Safari at heart.

This is hot. Safari+ seamlessly adds a whole bunch of useful desktop-like features—text searching, translation, speed-scrolling and more—to Mobile Safari through the magic of Javascript bookmarkets. [Safari+ via Lifehacker]

Granted, there aren't that many original ways to sue Apple anymore, but this one is just peculiar. Elliot Gottfurcht, a successful commercial real estate developer, is suing the company because he claims to hold a patent for "the way the iPhone navigates the Internet." He was indeed granted an internet-ish patent in…

Before 2007, using the internet on your phone would make you want to kill yourself, if you were dumb enough to believe the crap splattered across that tiny screen even was the "internet." But the combination of increased bandwidth and better mobile software means that more phones really are promising to deliver the …

Not surprising news, this, but sad nonetheless. According to Opera CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, an iPhone version of its popular mobile browser is developed and ready to go, but will likely never see the light of day due to Apple's infamous App Store policies, barring apps that compete with the phone's default…

From an alleged leaked shot of iPhone firmware 2.2, we see that Apple has tweaked the browser ever so slightly (old version left, new version right). The Google search magnifying glass icon is gone in favor of a separate Google search bar (similar to Safari desktop). Technically it won't save any button presses over…

Three of the best mobile browsers that act like grown up ones are Mobile Safari, Skyfire and Opera Mobile 9.5. Even though the latter two (both for Windows Mobile) are still betas, Laptop Mag decided to toss them all into a race anyway, seeing which could deliver piping hot content the fastest. They ran Opera and…

The iPhone 2.0 software might be shakier than a true believer's legs in the presence of Steve himself, but there's at least one benefit (besides the app goodness): Mobile Safari 2.0 is much zoomier. John Gruber ran the benchmarks, comparing them against historical ones, and found that it runs at least 1.7 times faster…