Google Maps Navigation,introduced today, puts the company in direct competition with GPS makers and former best friend, Apple.
Google Maps Navigation,introduced today, puts the company in direct competition with GPS makers and former best friend, Apple. The service, which can nicely replace a standalone GPS, is only available for handsets running Google's Android operating system.
Google's service for Android users strikes a blow at GPS navigation businesses
If you're an Android user, Google is hoping to help you get where you're going.
Google turned 11 yesterday!
Google turned 11 yesterday, and it's hard to believe Google is only 11. Long ago it became its own verb, replacing "to search for" with its ubiquitous moniker, and permanently etched itself into Internet culture. Now, with its many offshoots, Google is no longer just a quick and easy alternative to, say, Yahoo search or AOL Web crawling, but rather, an institution.
Google Maps is using SUNA and crowdsourced information to deliver traffic information for free
Commuters in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane may not yet have access to Google Maps' public transport information, but they can now receive free, live traffic updates on their mobile phones. As of this morning, Google Maps will display traffic information in the three capital cities, as well as the surrounding areas of Wollongong, Central Coast, Geelong, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast.
Google snares a bigger share of the property search market
Google has added a real estate search to its Google Maps service in Australia, letting potential home buyers view available properties across all real estate companies in a particular area.
The Maps Data API lets developers host geodata in Google servers.
Google has released a new API for Google Maps designed to relieve developers of the burden of maintaining their own repositories for geographical data.
You can bookmark a Gmail message, track stocks in Google's search box, quickly estimate a taxi ride's cost in Google Maps, and do much more. We tell you how.
You can bookmark a Gmail message, track stocks in Google's search box, quickly estimate a taxi ride's cost in Google Maps, and do much more. We tell you how.
Google Maps used to display the actual location of appraoching transport, via GPS
Post-graduate IT students from Carnegie Mellon University Australia (CMUA) have created a mobile phone app that provides commuters with live timetable information.
Analyst: Google Maps upgrade marries social networking, mapping and mobility.
Need to know in real time which service truck is closest to a customer's location? Want to know whether your daughter really is at the library or how your friend is progressing on a trip through the Barossa Valley?
Google has added yet another feature to Google Maps this week with the launch of the Transit Layer.
Google has added yet another feature to Google Maps this week with the launch of the Transit Layer, which allows users to see public transport routes in 50 cities internationally.
Nokia continues to push navigation on mobile phones at its World 08 conference.
Nokia continues to push navigation on mobile phones, announcing Tuesday at its World 08 conference in Barcelona a version of its Maps software as well as Maps on Ovi, which will compete with Google Maps.
Ex Indian president warned easy availability of detailed maps of countries from services such as Google Earth could be misused by terrorists.
The terrorists that attacked various locations in south Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks.
Google Street View arrives across the ditch.
Google Monday launched Street View on Google Maps in New Zealand. Street View lets users view and navigate 360 degree street-level imagery of local cities, towns, regions and remote areas.
Google Maps' Street View has undergone some minor but interesting changes.
Google Maps' Street View has undergone some small but interesting changes.
Users of Google Maps can search across all local business listings provided by Yellow.
Users of Google Maps will soon be able to find Yellow business listings as part of a deal struck between Google and Sensis.