Attention Android owners nlikely to be 2.0-ed any time soon! You can now stop holding your breath. Google Maps Navigation is coming to 1.6, and you can download it right now. It’s missing a feature or two (voice-activated navigation, for instance), but it’s 95% there. Of course, depending on your handset, network, and so on, your mileage (so to speak) may vary. ... Read More

When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., as measured by all the mobile ad requests it tracks. That number is up from a combined 65 percent in September, 2009. The iPhone is miles ahead ... Read More

In case you love Google Earth and you happen to own an iPhone then you'll be happy to know that version 2.0 is now available. The update brings support for 31 languages and lots of other features. Google Earth for iPhone 2.0 will offer you custom maps support which means you will be able to access maps created by you or other from the My Maps interface. The software will also ... Read More

Google has signed an agreement to acquire mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million in stock, the search giant's third-largest acquisition, it announced in a press release yesterday. AdMob's focus on web and app display ads - with more than 15,000 mobile websites and applications already in its network - will compliment Google's focus on search ads. "Mobile advertising has enormous potential as a marketing medium and while this industry is ... Read More

Google Voice has 1.4 million users, 570,000 of which use the service every day of the week, according to a letter submitted to the Federal Communications Commission about the service, BusinessWeek reports. The figures represent the service's user base before it launched a light version that lets users keep their phone number and use Google Voice for voicemail functionality, announced just last week. It is likely that the functionality will attract ... Read More

Google has announced Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Android 2.0 devices. This new feature comes with everything you’d expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting. But unlike most navigation systems, Google Maps Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of your phone’s Internet connection. The first phone to have Google Maps Navigation and Android 2.0 is the ... Read More

Google is now offering a light version of Google Voice that allows users to utilize Voice as their primary voicemail provider without changing their phone number, according to a company blog post. When signing-up for the service, there's an option to chose a new number or use an existing one. Current Google Voice users can opt-in phone numbers they are already forwarding to, as well. The service will text message or ... Read More

There we were ranting about Google selectively sharing Android 2.0 without making it available to developers en masse, and then they went ahead and did just that. Beginning immediately, Android 2.0 support is available in the Android SDK. Don’t expect it to be available (at least not through any official means) on any device until the Motorola Droid launches, which all signs indicate will happen sometime in early November. Here are the ... Read More

The ability to keep tabs on mobile visitors is becoming increasingly important as more and more users surf the web via mobile browsers. With that said, there are a variety of website tracking / analytic reporting tools available across the Net that include mobile reporting. However, one of the more popular (and free) apps, Google Analytics, has essentially been asleep at the mobile analytics wheel…until now. Google has announced the addition ... Read More

Google is introducing its PC-based Search Options, which lets users quickly filter search results, to Android, iPhone, and webOS handsets. Search Options lets users sort results by web, forum, and reviews and further refine the results by choosing a time frame in which the results should appear from. Should a user be interested in finding reviews of an item they are shopping for that were published in the last week, the ... Read More