It pains me to cover anything iPad-related news right now as I'm having a rough experience with our local FedEx Broke which has been "detaining" my iPad for a couple of days now.  But in the spirit of reporting,  I have to forget about this issue and cover this Google-iPad related news. So, here we go, Google just announced that its Google Mobile App for iPad is now available for free download from the iPad App Store.

Google's next order of battle for Google Buzz - Share Buttons. If you've felt envious of sites such as TechCrunch and Mashable which were quick enough to come up with their customized Google Buzz Share Buttons, Google will now let you do the same without having to hack through some codes and all. And it's also the official Google Buzz Share Button.

Twitter is about to unveil something that it hopes will finally answer the grandstanding question of whether Twitter can actually make money, and if yes - how?  The new Twitter business model will rely on " promoted tweets ," which will put ads on Twitter's search results and user feeds on Twitter.com as well as third-party Twitter clients later. So, if you're using TweetDeck and other mobile and desktop Twitter apps,

Google is gradually rolling out some enhancements of its online collaboration tool - Google Docs - specifically docs, spreadsheets and a new stand-alone drawings tool. Google has rebuild the Docs infrastructure to give the online tools more flexibility, improved performance and better platform for them to develop new features in the future. The new versions of Google document,

Well it looks like this is the first time that Google was glad that a would-be rival launched its product.  According to Reuters , Google CEO Eric Schmidt is hoping that Apple's mobile ad platform, iAd which was announced last would boosts Google's  argument into convincing government regulators to approve its acquisition of AdMob. U.S.

Speaking at a newspaper conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt might have spilled something which he should have kept to himself.  Or should we give him the benefit of the doubt and just think that he did not mean what he said and was just trying to please the newspaper crowd? Well according to reports , Mr. Schmidt made a rather insulting statement  to bloggers that says: There is an art to what you do. And if you're ever confused as to the value of newspaper editors,

From the Idealab, the same guys who invented the paid internet search model comes a new startup called Tweetup . TweetUp hopes to make Twitter more relevant for everyone and finally put a stop to the notion that Twitter is all about noise. It's the fastest and easiest way to find the best tweets and tweeters as well as a reliable way of finding targetted Twitter followers. Basically,

For the longest time that Google has been into acquisition of startups, interestingly this is the first time that it acquires a UK-based startup. Google just bought mobile visual search startup - Plink . The acquisition is of course part of Google's aim of acquiring at least one company monthly. Plink, a mobile visual search engine was founded by PhD students Mark Cummins and James Philbin.  It's first product was called PlinkArt,

Google has just officially announced that website speed is now a new signal when it considers web search ranking. Although not too much weight is given to site speed, still Google encourages website owners to consider implementing site speed booster to make their websites rank higher on Google search. This however applies only to Google.com. And site speed is defined by Google as the speed by which websites responde to web requests.

Google just announced a new simple, and yet very useful feature of its mobile search service. The new feature is actually a spinoff of the universal search features in Google Suggest that helps you fill up your search query with Google's keyword suggestions. With universal search feature added to Google Suggest for mobile , you can now get answers to your queries faster while you are on the go, using of course your mobile phones.

Here's something worth checking out on Gmail Labs - nested labels and email sneak preview .  The nested labels feature allow you to organize your labels hierarchically. While the email sneak preview feature lets you sneak into the contents of email items in your inbox. What's good about nested lables is that you can add as many layers as you want on a particular lable. And since they are labels,

Microsoft has just updated Bing Shopping ,  putting in some enhancements to product categories and navigation. Specifically, Bing Shopping now has a list of product categories on the left side of the homepage. This will enable you to drill down to specific items under the specific product categories. It will also help get started searching for products you want to buy. It's like giving you a window shopping experience, only this time its done online.

The Twitter blog is running a post today announcing some numbers related to Twitter's overall growth not only in the U.S. but internationally as well. According to the post, more than 60% of Twitter users are from outside the U.S. This is definitely a huge leap from Twitter's early days were users were primarily employees and their friends. Now, Twitter users have become a group with diverse identities. Some specific proofs of Twitter's growth in other regions: In Chile,

Apple is officially entering the mobile ads arena, and perhaps taking revenge at Google for snatching its plan of acquiring AdMob. Apple's battleplan?  the iAd mobile ad platform . Apple's iAd is a pretty straightforward mobile ad platform utilizing of course Apple's main products - iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad. These three devices are host to the thousands of mobile apps which Apple is providing with an advertising platform.

We all know how important site images our when trying to optimize our websites for search engine indexing, right?  When highlighting important website content on our site, we use sitemaps. But sitemaps often preclude images we used on our site - leaving search engine not to notice or find them. This is particularly true for images that are only accessible via JavaScript forms, or for pages that contain many images but only some of which are integral to the page content.

Hitwise has just released the summary of all U.S. searches conducted for four weeks ending March 27.  While we were not surprised that both Google and Bing's market shares went down, what's quite surprising is the fact that both Yahoo and Ask.com gained a significant percentage of  all the searches. Google search accounted for 69.97%, down from 70.95% in the previous month. Yahoo search increased to 15.04%, up by 3%, Bing search with 9.62% down by -1% and Ask.

When Google acquires Gizmo5 , a VoIP service that provides P2P VoIP calls and calls with normal landlines and mobile phones, it wasn't clear as to how Google will possibly use Gizmo5's technology.  Although, Gizmo5 could very well provide Google Voice an endpoint for calls, Google didn't do much to make this happen, until now. According to TechCrunch , Google is currently testing a new Google Voice desktop application built on the Gizmo5 technology.

Here's another twist on Google's long struggle on the Google  Book Search Settlement issue. The American Society of Media Photograpehrs )ASMP( and other photographic artists groups and concerned individuals have filed a class action copyright infringement lawsuit against Google. Their case? - Google's alleged copyright infringement on the photos contained on the scanned millions of books under the Google Books Search problem.

For a long time now, I've been trying to use Google Buzz on my Nexus One Maps App but to no avail.  For some reason I can't get it to work. So, I was quite surprised  how easy it was to activate Google Buzz on the Maps for Mobile 4.0 app for my BlackBerry Bold 9700. This came after Google updated its Maps for Mobile App for Blackberry devices to version 4.0. And together with Google Buzz, Google has also added some other cool features to the app.

Although its current catalog of mobile apps is way too far behind the number of apps in the iTunes Apps Store,  still Google's Android Marketplace is steadily growing. In fact, it may now be considered as the fastest growing mobile apps stores . Recent data from the AndroidLib.com shows that around 9,331 new mobile apps were added to the Android Market in March 2010.  This figure is yet the biggest number of apps added to the Android App store on a monthly basis.