Relying on your Google Pixel 8’s GPS for navigation can be incredibly convenient until it suddenly stops working. There are several reasons why your GPS might malfunction, including software glitches, ...

Google Maps and Waze are spearheading the mobile navigation software space, and every little bug they hit could be bad news for lots of drivers. Given both are owned by Google, most users out there ...

Originally posted in the Android Developers Blog, the following is reprinted with permission from authors Frank van Diggelen, principal engineer, and Jennifer Wang, product manager, Google. At Android ...

Waze GPS issues are nothing new, as they’ve been around for a long time due to a wide array of reasons, but they have become a lot more widespread after the release of Android 11. And since users need ...

Android phones aren’t the only handsets that have access to a free, full-featured GPS application. Nokia on Thursday announced that it will make the premium version of Ovi Maps, which includes turn-by ...

Google Maps has long been the favored GPS app, guiding drivers fairly accurately for decades, and then Waze mixed things up ...

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A security researcher with antivirus maker ESET has discovered a collection of 19 Android apps that pose as GPS applications but which don't do anything but show ads on top of the legitimate Google ...

The city of Tampa signed a three-year contract with One.network, a platform that allows officials to send information about ...

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Fake Android GPS apps that just show an ad and run Google Maps are running amok in the Play Store. In total, 19 apps have been found to exhibit this behavior. They have accumulated more than 50 ...

On a trip to Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 2010, I was using the Google-powered Maps app on an iPhone 3GS to hunt down wineries while my friend drove. That's farm country, and driving on ...