Car-sharing service Zipcar has offered an for ages which lets customers sign up to rent a car by the hour from their phone, manage their reservations, and even unlock the doors of your reserved car when you get close enough. Now the company has finally gotten around to launching an Android version. It’s still in beta, but it has most of the features you’d expect,… Read more »

Google has been showing some love for its mobile Maps applications pretty often this year, and the company has just rolled put yet another update for its Android app. Version 5.4.0 captures your search history and places it into your Google web history. This new ability to search your account’s history could certainly be useful to someone who, for example, typed an address on one device… Read more »

Google has pushed out an updated version of Google Maps for Android. Version 5.3 adds a new dashboard which shows your location history, so if you use Google Latitude to track your location or use the check-ins feature, you can see where you’ve been and how much time you’ve spent at each location. That might not sound that exciting… but for stats junkies, it’s actually… Read more »

Zipcar is a car sharing service that lets members take out cars by the hour. What makes Zipcar different from a normal car rental is the fact that you don’t have to go into a rental office to fill out paperwork and pick up keys every time you need a car. You get a member card which you can use to unlock a car that… Read more »

Google has rolled out an updated version of Google Maps for Android which doesn’t just show you live traffic information for free… it can automatically reroute your directions to avoid congested areas. Earlier versions of Google Maps would generally attempt to pick the fastest route from point A to B… but it didn’t take traffic conditions into account. And as anyone who’s ever tried to… Read more »

Google has pushed out a new version of Google Maps for Android. The latest version doesn’t make it any easier to find places you’re looking for, but Google Maps 5.2 does make it easier to tell the world about those places. The first big change is improved support for check-ins using the Google Latitude service, which tracks your location. If you see friends near your… Read more »

There was a time before Google got into the mapping business when MapQuest was the go-to site for directions and maps on the web. And it turns out that even though most Google phones ship with a pretty slick Google Maps application and free turn-by-turn navigation, AOL noticed more than 1.4 million Android users coming to MapQuest mobile web site each month. So the company… Read more »

Sure, most Android phones ship with free access to Google Maps navigation. But Verizon is hoping it can entice you to pay $9.99 per month to use its VZ Navigator VX service instead. So what does Verizon offer that you don’t get from Google’s free service? Here are just a few things: Virtual City Driving with 3D animations of major cityscapes Overhead traffic signs letting… Read more »

Google has launched an updated version of Google Maps for Android, and as expected it includes a couple of pretty awesome updates. The first thing you’ll notice about Google Maps 5 for Mobile is that it now supports much smoother scrolling, thanks to vector-based graphics and caching. But that’s just the tip of th eicerberg. There’s also support for 3D building views. Just touch the… Read more »

A new version of Google Maps for Android is due out in a few days, and it has a number of new features. Probably the most important is that it’s based on vector graphics rather than image tiles. What that means is that as you scroll through the map, you won’t have to wait for new imagery to load. Instead, it will load gradually as… Read more »