The iPhone SDK will bring thousands of new applications to the iPhone and iPod Touch that weren’t possible to make in the past. Evolution Robotics is creating a revolutionary visual search technology they call ViPR – and it’s coming to the iPhone this June. ViPR lets you take a photo with you’re iPhone’s built-in camera of any book, movie or CD, send it to their server, and automatically get an e-mail back with all the information about it; YouTube videos, iTunes music store links, Wikipedia links and more.

The iPhone is not the only phone to be treated with ViPR. It will also be deployed in Japan on KDDI’s camera phones this Spring. Check the video after the jump, you’ll see how well this demo of ViPR performs – even when the camera angle is not straight:

Everyone has been seeing more and more iPhones these days, and Google has been seeing 50 times more searches on the iPhone than any other mobile handset device. More searches mean more revenue for the world’s largest search engine, Google. This is only good for the popular search engine, as they just lost a contract more »

Apple has updated iTunes to version 7.4.1 and in addition to the ringtones they have also added auto-complete to the iTunes Store search. Now when you search the iTunes Store you will be given a drop down of possible matches. A great way to search for that song or artist when you are not really more »

Tech blogger Robert Scoble has confirmed that Google search is now formatted specially for the iPhone. The implementation is slightly shoddy though; it’s limited to a single page of results and the sites displayed may not be formatted for iPhone. On the plus side, you don’t get Google ads. Correct me if I’m wrong but more »

Aside from the major redesign on Apple.com, several minor updates were also launched on Apple’s website throughout the week. The search bar is the latest item to receive the same treatment; it now has the dynamic look and feel of Spotlight on Mac OS X. Possible results start to appear as you enter your query, more »