At the end of October 2009, Google released a free turn-by-turn GPS application called Google Maps Navigation. At that time, the app was available for Android 2.0 devices.

Today, Google expanded the availability of Google Navigation to devices running Android 1.6 and higher:

Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS system with voice guidance and automatic rerouting, all running on your mobile phone. Using Google services over your phone’s … Read More

The extremely popular iPhone application “Bump” has made its debut on the Android Market!

Bump is an application on your Android phone that lets you share contact information or photos quickly and in a fun way. The app uses an Android device’s sensors to actually “feel” a bump from another Android device.

Once the two devices bump together, the information it sent to the web and matching algorithms match the … Read More

With the release of Android 2.0, Google today announced a free, turn by turn GPS navigation application called Google Maps Navigation that makes its debut within the new 2.0 platform. This is a very awesome turn by turn app since it is integrated with Google Maps and it is completely free!

This new feature comes with everything you’d expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like … Read More

Today Google announced the SDK release of Android 2.0 (AKA: Eclair)!

Android 2.0 brings new API’s for syncing, Bluetooth and a ton of other features and enhancements. Users will now be able to sync contacts with other contact sources, connect to peer-to-peer for gaming and much more!

There is no word yet on the official 2.0 firmware release, but with TELUS getting the Hero in November, hopefully 2.0 … Read More

Here is a cool app idea.

Panoramio is an application/community who share their photos online. User uploaded photos are surfaced in Google Earth and Google Maps as photo layers, so almost anyone with Internet access can see them.

While the whole idea behind Panoramio is web-based, the application that is available makes it very simple to upload photos directly to the online community from your device.

Panoramio aims to keep photo … Read More

This morning, Google finally enabled Street View functionality in Canada! During the year, there have been numerous Google Street View car sightings and it would seem that the culmination of that effort has been released today!

Google Street View is an amazing feature of Google Maps that allows you to zoom down into an intersection and move around in it from the Maps interface. The images on Street View are not … Read More

On September 15, we reported about the release of Android 1.6 SDK to the developer community. The official release noted that 1.6 would be running on devices as early as October 2009.

While that was great news, we were all left wondering when Rogers was going to adopt the new version and send out an update, whether Over-the-Air or as a downloadable file.

Well it seems that at least Read More

At the end of August, we reported about the updated to the Layar Augmented Reality browser which brought an amazing traffic view function to the app.

Well this morning Layar released three videos that demo a new 3D addition to its popular Augmented Reality Browser. The only word that comes to mind when I see the demo videos is “AWESOME!”.

You can expect to see the 3D augmented … Read More