Google's new App Inventor for Android comes with an ambitious goal: Allow anyone to create simple apps for their mobile phone. The tool, still in invitation-only beta, offers a graphical drag-and-drop ...

Last month’s surprising closure of Google Labs may have its first significant casualty: Google has announced it is ending support for App Inventor for Android, but the company is ultimately leaving ...

Originally unveiled back in July, so positive has been the response to Google's App Inventor for Android that the company has decided to open up its toolset to everyone. The program - though still ...

9to5Google reports that Google has killed off the Google Phone app's "nearby places" feature. Google announced the impending death of the feature in February, saying: "We’ve found only a very small ...

We've known for a while that Google Maps was the number one navigation app worldwide, but new research conducted by Nationwide Vehicle Contracts confirms that Google's software also dominates the ...

This week Apple brought Apple Maps to the web in beta, bringing it one step closer to parity with Google Maps, which has long been available via web browsers. Of course, iPhone owners will still turn ...

If you launch the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store, it’s all just a matter of seconds until you come across an app claiming that it can fully replace Google Maps. At some level, this is ...

Google Maps has been around for nearly two decades and is the most popular navigation app. Waze is more community-centric while Apple Maps has a loyal user base of iPhone owners. Each navigation app ...

Google Maps appears to be the first app to add support for Android 16’s new Live Updates feature. Live Updates are a special class of notifications that display progress-centric information and can ...