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by Alex Dobie
Mar 05, 2012
Google is continuing to build on its mobile search experience with the launch of a new section for recently-searched places on its mobile homepage. If you've got Web History enabled in your Goog...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2011
Looks like Android's Facebook app is getting ready for an update, according to some screen shots leaked to Engadget. Codenamed "Katana" (which was, for as long as we can remember, alwa...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 11, 2011
The latest Google Maps update is now available in the Android Market for download. Pushing the app to v5.12.0 there is one addition and one removal of a 'feature'. The additon comes by way o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 14, 2011
Earlier today Google held its "Inside Search" event in California, where they showed us a lot of cool new features built in (or being built in) to Google.com, both on the desktop and mobile....
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 14, 2011
Fire up google.com from your phone's browser this morning and you'll see a few familiar buttons at the bottom. Those are borrowed from the Places app, which is now part of the default Google Apps stab...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 15, 2011
While it may not really seem all that interesting at first glance, today's announcement from Google regarding the discontinuation of Google Tags could potentially mean quite a bit to businesses who ju...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2010
Tucked into Google's official blog post on the most recent update to Google Maps is a little bit about Google Hotpots. No, we didn't misspell that. Head to google.com/hotpot and you can rate local pl...
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by Jesse Potter
Nov 03, 2010
The update to the Android Facebook app that CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed this morning is now live in the Android Market. New features include: Groups - Share posts with small groups of frie...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 19, 2010
Facebook tonight announced its "Places" feature, wherein it allows you to directly "check in" at any location, without the use of a third-party app to do so. And that's fine...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 26, 2010
Google Maps just served notice to every other location-based business app out there with the introduction of "Places." A tie-in with Google Maps, it makes it super easy to find any kind of, ...
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by Casey Chan
Jun 04, 2009
We've all been in that situation before: You're in a new city, you have no idea where anything is, you need help. Thankfully, we can now all fire up Google's 'Places Directory' application on ou...
