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Google just released their navigation product called Google Maps Navigation. It is an internet-connected GPS navigation system with voice guidance and is part of Google Maps for mobile. Currently Google Maps Navigatio is available for phones with Android 2.0 like Motorola Droid. Google Maps Navigation uses your phone's internet connection to give you the latest maps and business data. But that's not all that's different about Google's approach to GPS navigation. Watch the below video to learn more.


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Google just unveiled that it collects Google Maps Mobile data to improve its traffic layer. This mean that you send anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you're moving when you use Google Maps Mobile on GPS enabled phone with My Location turned on. The idea behind this data collection is that Google combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time to get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions.


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After a long absent, Skyhook Wireless is back on the scene once more with a new Android dev and application under their belts. By now you should know, if you want your application to offer the best GPS service available, Skyhook Wireless at the moment is your best bet.
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We have to face the facts about Google. Although it's only 10 years old, it already controls the Internet. No matter if we go online from our desktop or our Mobile phone, we depend on Google on getting closer to our goals. Google knows this and that's why it keeps expending and developing its products.


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