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Get Location-Aware Google Maps on Your Palm Centro
The mobile version of Google Maps has been "location aware" since last November, meaning it could pinpoint your location using either your phone's built-in GPS or cell-tower triangulation. Alas, Palm Centro users couldn't enjoy the location love; they had to input their positions manually (the horror!). As...
Tags: Rick Broida, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, GPS, Advertising & Promotion, Location, Google Maps, Palm Inc., Mobile, Aware, Google Inc.
Blog posts 2008-06-24
Get Mass-Transit Directions with Google Maps for Mobile
Want to get from point A to point B using convenient, inexpensive public transportation? Fire up the latest version of Google Maps for Mobile, which provides bus and/or train routes right on your phone. Version 2.2 provides transit directions for over 50 North American cities, from Ann...
Tags: Rick Broida, Marketing, Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Mobile, Google Maps, Google Inc., Phone
Blog posts 2008-06-09
ADVISORY/Google Makes Drive Time Easier With Live Traffic Updates Through Google Maps for Mobile
In the WHEN section of release the date should read Tuesday, July 25, 2006 (sted Tuesday, June 25, 2006).
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, mobile
Research articles 2006-07-25
Get FT.
HELIO LLC announced the launch of its third exclusive mobile device--the Drift- and custom-built services that harness advanced GPS technology, GPS-enabled Google Maps for mobile and Buddy Beacon. The new device and services continue Helio's innova HELIO LLC announced the launch of its third...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, GPS, mobile
Research articles 2007-02-01
Droid Takes Center Stage With Launch; Verizon Sales Start Nov. 6
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and Motorola (NYSE: MOT) have taken the wraps off Droid, its first Android phone. The handset, which runs on Android 2.0, the latest version of Google’s operating system for mobile phones, goes on sale to Verizon customers on November 6 and is priced at $199...
Tags: Google Inc., NYSE Euronext, Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., Google Maps, Sales, Motorola Inc., Droid, Telecom & Utilities, Mobile, Companies, Motorola, Verizon, Dianne See Morrison
External links 2009-10-28
Google Maps for Mobile Gets Better at Finding Businesses
I've long been a fan of Google Maps for Mobile, but always wished it could give me directions to a local business if I entered just the business name as the destination. Well, my prayers have been answered: Google Maps for Mobile now supports business names when looking up directions....
Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Google Maps, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-01-07
Google Street View On Nokia S60 And Windows Mobile; Adds Text Messaging To Gmail Chat
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made Street View accessible on a wider range of phones, its mobile team said in its blog. After photographing France, Italy, Spain and Australia, the internet giant has made its application Google Maps for mobile version 2.3 with Street View accessible on the Nokia (NYSE:...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Google Maps, Text Messaging, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, E-mail Providers, Marketing, Internet, Companies, Google, Technologies, LBS/GPS Navigation/Maps, Dianne See Morrison
External links 2008-12-11

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Google Maps Navigation takes a turn
Don't try this on game day, but the new Google Maps Navigation application will show you how to take a spin past Boston's Fenway Park.(Credit: Google)You can almost hear the portable navigation industry swearing already.Google will announce plans Wednesday to release a new Android application called Google Maps Navigation. When...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps
News items 2009-10-28
Google Maps Now Shows Live Traffic Reports For Back Roads
The Google Maps team has been on quite the tear this summer, enriching its platform and beefing up location-based services, such as Google Latitude. In just the past two months, the search and Web services giant has offered multiple searches for one search destination session, shown users how to get...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps
News items 2009-08-25
Google Maps Navigation Analysis
As Om Malik points out , turn-by-turn GPS navigation with voice guidance has come to Google Maps and carriers can't be happy about it. Who is even less happy? TomTom and Garmin. According to Google, less than 1% of navigation devices are connected to the cloud...
Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPhone, Google Maps, GPS
News items 2009-10-28
Google Maps updated with NYC subway maps layer
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps just keeps getting better. Google recently rolled out the "Layer" feature for Google Maps on BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM), Windows Mobile and Symbian S60, allowing users to overlay different types data on top of Google Maps – stuff like Wikipedia entries and your friends' Google Latitude locations....
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, Subway
News items 2009-11-06
Layers come to Google Maps for BlackBerry
We're excited to announce that version 3.2 of Google Maps for mobile is now available for BlackBerry. This release contains many of the same features we recently launched on Windows Mobile and S60 , including Layers. Layers make it easy to view various types of information...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps
News items 2009-10-21
Google: A Cloud In The Hand
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google has developed a powerful new mobile phone application--interactive mobile phone-based driving directions--that is designed to increase the attractiveness of its Android phone operating system. It will also likely mean trouble for makers of existing GPS car navigation systems. Even more, it signals a bigger effort...
Tags: Google Inc., Mobile
News items 2009-10-28
Google's GPS Sneak Attack
To be clear, the free app only works with Android 2.0, and for the time being, there is only one Android 2.0 phone: Verizon's Droid. It's a nice phone, by the way. Mobile Managing Editor Sascha Segan gave me a few minutes with it, and I was impressed with the...
Tags: Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Google Maps, GPS
News items 2009-10-28
You Ask, We Answer. Go Mobile!
This week, as part of our celebration of all things mobile , we posed you this question - what do you want to know? And you told us! After two days, 519 people submitted 133 questions and cast 4,607 votes. We saw some common themes in your...
Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Phone
News items 2009-10-15
Google Maps 3.2 brings Layers to BlackBerry
Google Maps for mobiles version 3.2 is now compatible with RIM's BlackBerry smartphones, offering users most of the features already available for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile. One of the nicest new features available now for BlackBerry is Layers. With Layers, users can quickly view various types of info directly...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, RIM BlackBerry
News items 2009-10-22
Google Earth: The Manager's New Best Friend
With dropping costs of GPS systems and the expanding customization possibilities of Google Maps and Google Earth, companies have a powerful, sophisticated and inexpensive way to look at everything from demographics of potential markets to how information flows through their own organizations. Google Maps has been around...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, Google Earth, GPS, Research & Development, Food & Beverage, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Manufacturing, Hardware, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-04-06
Google's Panoramio Gets an iPhone App
Google has released a new iPhone app for Panoramio, which lets users upload photos right from their iPhone."Tens of millions of mobile users own a device with a good camera and GPS," said Fernando Delgado of Panoramio. "We realize that a lot of these users may want to share photos...
Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPhone, app, Photograph
News items 2009-10-21
Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris Now on Verizon Wireless Network
Verizon Wireless now offers not one but two smartphones featuring Google?s Android, the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris. While the move is expected to be a win for all parties, Motorola is most in need of a success.On. Nov. 6, Verizon Wireless officially joined the competitive fray surrounding...
Tags: Motorola Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Smart Phone, Verizon Wireless
News items 2009-11-06
Google search finds missing child
A nine-year-old girl, allegedly kidnapped by her grandmother, has been found using a mobile phone signal and Google Street View. A police officer and a firefighter in Athol, Massachusetts, joined forces after authorities were alerted that Natalie Maltais had been taken. Officers used GPS in the girl's mobile phone to...
News items 2009-08-07
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