You may not know it yet, but your location is almost as important as your email address and password. It is one of the things hackers and advertisers love to know ...

Google Maps has a new power-saving mode that is supposed to reduce battery usage by showing only the most essential details ...

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

Every day, millions of people worldwide use mobile navigation services, and there is a good chance that you are one of them. We might not realize this, but navigation services have made our lives ...

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Google tracks location through various methods even without GPS, such as Wi-Fi positioning, cell tower triangulation, Bluetooth signals, IP addresses, user input, and sensor data. Users can disable ...

You don’t have cellphone coverage—or affordable cellphone coverage—everywhere. That’s why Joel asked if he could download maps when he has Wi-Fi, and use them ...

If you weren’t sure about switching to an Android phone in the near future, this might put you over the edge. Google Maps Navigation is an absolutely killer app. And it is only available for Android 2 ...

Last year, Americans spent more than 300 billion minutes on navigation apps, like Waze or Google Maps.The GPS systems in our ...