Engadget:
You might've thought that Google was positioning its industry-changing Google Maps Navigation as a value proposition for Android 2.0 and beyond, but yeah, not so much -- instead, they've gone ahead and backported it to 1.6 (a (Read More)
Unwired View:
The Google mobile team has announced a new version of Google News for Android, iPhone and WebOS (Palm Pre).Available in 29 languages, the updated Google News for mobile features “the same richness and personalization” that Go (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): We've written about a lot of desktop clients that are essentially site-specific browsers (SSBs), but free AIR client Google Tasks helps you consolidate your clients by allowing access to most Go (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you're in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don't love your every step tracked—well, it's kind of creepy. Clea (Read More)
Lifehacker:
If you've been using Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you're in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don't love your every step tracked—well, it's (Read More)
Google Operating System:
Google Latitude added two new applications that make location tracking more useful: history and alerts.Google Latitude History stores your locations and lets you visualize them on a map. You can remove some of the locations a (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Google already knows too much about me, yet Google Latitude's Location History and Location Alerts features are still creepy. But they're useful, because together they learn your usual hangouts and know when you don't need no (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Google Maps Street View makes its way to Hawaii, Firefox for Mobile beta is ready for a limited set of phones, and tips for living longer by avoiding death traps. Escape to Paradise on Your Phone Google Maps adds Street View (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
This week we brought out some new search tools for the phone and for the web. We also enhanced our universal search with a better interface for product results.Multiple pictures of products in Universal SearchWe've added mult (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Hey Google! I adore your celebration of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but what are you doing sticking an ad on your homepage? An ad for Verizon's Droid of all things. It's a simple text link that leads to Google's mobile (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
(Cross-posted with the Google Mobile Blog)Google Search by voice has grown up quickly. Some might say that search by voice has matured from a toddler to a tween. It's certainly been traveling across the English-speaking world (Read More)
Phones Review:
Arguably the very best version of the Google Mobile OS Android 2.0 went public very recently and it is already becoming more and more popular.Following the Motorola baby Droid, the HTC Hero will soon become the second smartph (Read More)
Unwired View:
Orange announced that it has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Google in order to provide customers with one-click access to Google Mobile App via various mobile platforms.Google Mobile App will be launched by Or (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Layar, which has forged early leadership in the nascent but inspiring field of “augmented reality,” is about to finish raising a round of more than $1 million.The Dutch company, which superimposes images and other data on top (Read More)
Lifehacker:
With Android 2.0 just around the corner, Google's pushed out an enticement for those considering making the smartphone switch: a dedicated turn-by-turn GPS application, hooked up to Google Maps, aware of traffic, and powered (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Google's free turn-by-turn navigation for Maps is the news this morning and even in Beta, they got a lot right. It has Google Maps tech, like street and satellite view and search-driven voice controls. Here's what you need to (Read More)
Gizmodo:
It'd have been difficult to leak Motorola's new Android piece any harder—we've already seen the hardware, the software, and even a review—but here's what we didn't know for sure: It's coming to Verizon on the 6th, for $200. F (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
(Cross-posted with the Google Mobile Blog)Since 2005, millions of people have relied on Google Maps for mobile to get directions on the go. However, there's always been one problem: Once you're behind the wheel, a list of dri (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
As part of our "Go Mobile" week of tips and tricks, we're recapping some of our latest Google Search for mobile features. All of these new features either make mobile search more complete, easier to use or more local.Complete (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Want newer results when you search Google from your smartphone? Want more or fewer pictures in your results page? Google's recently begun showing Search Options to a number of smartphone users. Like its desktop counterpart, S (Read More)