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Google Announces Synchronized Starring and Personalized Suggestions For (You Guessed It) Android
This is the kind of preferential treatment we’ve been hoping for since Android was announced. Google just announced a pair of new features that help blur the lines between your PC and Android experience. Using your Google account, users can now pull up previous searches …
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Unconfirmed Rumor: Google to Buy Yelp for $500M
TechCrunch is reporting this evening that a deal between Google and Yelp is “80% likely” to happen. Rumored to be in the ballpark of $500M or more, the acquisition could be a huge gain for Google Maps and Android. Meshing Yelp’s crowd-sourced business directory together …
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Waze Announces Holiday Themed Version of its Free Navigation App, Launches Contest
If you’re interested in how companies plan to compete with Google Maps Navigator, we suggest you keep an eye on waze. Rather than turning around and running in the opposite direction, the first free provider of driver-generated maps and real-time road information, embraces the challenge …
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Google Maps Update – What’s Nearby You?
Google has added a new feature called “What’s nearby†to the latest release of Google Maps (v3.3.0). The feature finds and displays a list of the ten nearest businesses or other places of interest to whatever address you specify on your map.
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Google Adds Crowdsourcing to Maps
Google is now using the locations and speeds of their mobile users to help each other out. Rather than finding out where congestion is the hard way, the traffic layer now uses crowdsourcing to help users get a feel for real-time road conditions. For those …
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Brightkite Now Available in Android Market
Brightkite just launched their first client for the Android platform. This marks their first app since the iPhone version. It’s not just a standard port though as this version offer features like integrated Google maps and background notifications for new messages. Unlike the iPhone, you …
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BuddyMob Fine-Tuned for Optimal Performance
Brussels, 26 March 2009 – BuddyMob is a free, cool application for mobile devices, made by Kiboo. BuddyMob gives you access to all your social networking applications like Twitter, MSN, Gtalk and AIM and use them simultaneously from your mobile phone, via one simple log-in.
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Android Armed up with a Map Editor by Google
Brian Cornell, a software engineer at Google, developed the My Map Editor app that allows Android phone users to create and share maps using their mobiles. On top of that, one can also synchronize the maps to their PCs. Tell you what, he has developed …
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Maps For Google Android Takes Advantage of G1 Hardware
Google Mobile team is starting a new series of features on Android applications. First up: Maps for Android.
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