Below are some of the latest blog posts across some Google's most popular blogs:

Contacts API with the iPhone
Posted by Jeff Scudder, Google Data APIs Team In case you hadn't seen this on the Google Mac Blog , a recent post highlighted the use of the Google Contacts Data API . The Address Book application in Mac OS X 10.5.3 now lets iPhone users sync their Address Book with their Google contacts. To try it, go to the Address Book menu, choose Preferences, and then check Synchronize with Google. It'll ask for your Google account and password, then automatically update your contacts every time you sync your…

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web Designer You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon -- after all, we hadn't in 8.5 years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices. So the new favicon is one of those,…

Appcelerator gives you Gears functionality out of the box
Posted by Dion Almaer, Gears Team Jeff Haynie announced that the latest Appcelerator SDK supports Gears . First, for those that haven't heard of Appcelerator , it is an open source "RIA" development toolkit that focuses on rich clients talking to services on the backend. You can think of it somewhat as a Flex-like framework built with Open Web technology. We are seeing an interesting trend. At first, frameworks would wrap Gears semantics in something that makes sense for their audience of…

Site maintenance on June 7 at 10am PDT
By now, our longtime publishers are likely well-versed in our regular maintenance -- so sing along if you know the words: Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance tomorrow, June 7th, from 10am to 2pm PDT. During these four hours, you won't be able to log in to your account. However, ad serving will not be affected, and your reports will continue to track your earnings as usual. We've noticed from past comments that many of you are concerned about public service ads (PSAs) or no ads…

Opening our doors in Lenoir
Posted by Kendra Intihar, Administrative Assistant, Google Lenoir Whether you're shopping for shoes, planning a trip or watching a funny video, you probably don't think much about where that website you're on actually "lives." Though they seem just to exist in some "cloud" out there in "cyberspace," all websites are actually hosted on computers, similar to the one you have at home or work. But millions of websites processing terabytes of data every day -- all of…

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