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Images and videos of the Sony Ericsson X10 have been floating around for months, giving us a very thorough preview of this Android handset. Today we have what we hope is the last in the preview series – a video of the X10 showing off Google Map’s turn-by-turn navigation. For those that already have Android [...]

The Android Market is going mainstream with some high profile applications making their way into the catalog. Earlier this week, Yelp, the popular online city guide, released a mobile application for the Android platform. The Yelp application grabs your location from your GPS and presents you with ratings, reviews, and photos of local restaurants and [...]

The news just won’t stop from the search giant.  Google has recently announced “Favorite Places on Google” as part of an initiative to get even better local results when searching for local businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, clothing stores, and more.  100,000 of the most researched places in over 9,000 cities and towns across all [...]

For those of you not familiar with the “My Maps” feature of the main Google Maps website, it allows users to draw lines and shapes on a regular Google Maps view, as well as place icons for things like people, cars, water, and similar features.
The customized map views can then be saved and referenced later, [...]