Google is pushing a relatively small update to Google Maps today to enhance its “Places†feature. ‘Best Ever’ ratings, as the update dubs them, will help you decide what restaurant in the area to go to. This may be small, but is a useful update in Google’s quest to “organize and make available the world’s information.†Google Places was introduced to help people find businesses and restaurants in their area
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Google Maps Now Rates Restaurants
June 17th, 2011
Google Maps Now Knows When Your Bus is Late
June 9th, 2011At least it does if you live in one of the six cities Google has so far partnered with. Boston, Portland, San Diego, and San Francisco, as well as Madrid and Turin across the pond, have all worked with Google to include a real-time schedule of their public transit systems in the latest version of Google Maps. This update brings peace of mind to commuters previously left waiting at stops, with just the knowledge of when their bus should have arrived
Archos announcing new generation of Honeycomb Tablets June 23rd
June 2nd, 2011Archos who was one of the first to start making and selling Android tablets back in the Android 1.5 days are about to unleash some information on the next generation of Archos Tablets in Paris come June 23rd. They’ve had some success with Android tablets even though they have not shipped with Google’s blessing and set of special Google Apps such as the Android Market, Gmail, Google Maps and more. Archos has done a pretty good job making older android versions run well on tablets like the Archos 101 and 70 .
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Google Maps Updated to V5.5
May 26th, 2011Posted by: Phil Esposito May 26, 2011 Version 5.5 of Google Maps adds better support for checking in and out of places, as well as rating them. Google has made checking in as easy as clicking the “check in†button on the location page. If you want to rate or review your location, you can just click the “rate and review” button.
Alcatel OneTouch T60 Android tablet unveiled by the FCC
May 26th, 2011Back in February, when I visited Alcatel’s booth at MWC 2011, it was full of budget-friendly featurephones and smartphones, most of them bearing the OneTouch brand (like the OneTouch 990 ), and I had no idea Alcatel wants to enter the tablet market, too. But it does. Behold the Alcatel OneTouch T60, a tablet that was approved by the FCC earlier today.
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Google Maps Now on all Mobile Browsers
May 21st, 2011So you’ve tried to access Google Maps from your web browser on your handheld device before and you’ve been miffed.
WebMD the App – Optimized health information for Android
May 10th, 2011Need some health advice? Get some mobile advice from “WebMD the App†for Android. The app comes with a handy symptom checker, drugs & treatments, first-aid info and more.
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Google April fools jokes still going? Type Tilt in your mobile browser
April 6th, 2011So of all people and blogs, Google is known to love and enjoy April Fools Day. They had all sorts of weird stories up this year. If you happened to catch any of them, this year they were good
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Google Maps enjoys 150 million mobile users a year
March 14th, 2011Speaking at the annual geek confab known as South by Southwest, Google VP Marissa Mayer announced that Google Maps is being used by over 150 million mobile map users, about 40% of the apps’ usage. In addition, mobile users looking to get around used Google Maps as their Google Maps app to navigate over 12 billion miles in the last year. Mayer went on to say that thanks to Google’s new traffic routing feature , users are saving about 2 years worth of time every day rerouting their driving to get by bad traffic. Many of the features of Google Maps for Android aren’t yet available for the iPhone, but Mayer says that while that will eventually change, Google goes to the Android platform first because Android obviously has a larger audience (course, the fact that Google powers the Android OS has nothing to do with it, right?). Mayer went on to say that the future looks bright for Google Maps as the company is always working to improve the interface and make it more intuitive.  Google’s goal is to make Google Maps more contextually aware so that it can analyze a driver’s route and offer suggestions automatically. Google wants access to other details of a users life so that they can offer real time traffic data and weather conditions that could affect the user
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HTC Inspire: A fast phone for fast people [Commercial]
March 11th, 2011The gigantic HTC Inspire is here, and its blazing fast.
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