BMW and Google Maps now work hand-in-hand in Germany with a feature called Drive Assist. You simply look up an address at your desk using Google Maps, then send it like you would an email straight to ...

Last year Google Maps added support for showing routes that are eco-friendly and fuel-saving in the United States, with the promise that those routes would expand in the future. Now, Google Maps is ...

This would be annoying at a personal level as well as being slightly strange on the larger one. For we use Google Maps in Germany to guide trucks to a mining site. But that's of course a minor point ...

Google Maps Street View feature is returning to Germany after a hiatus of over a decade. Initially met with skepticism and legal challenges surrounding privacy concerns, Google halted the rollout of ...

After a long bout of controversy about privacy – which was not helped by cars collecting WiFi data – Google today has launched its first city in Germany with Google Maps Street View, Oberstaufen.

Internet giant Google wants to extend its popular Street View mapping service to include 20 German cities by the end of the year. But those plans have sparked a fierce debate. German politicians and ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Casey Newton writes about Google for CNET, which he joined in 2012 after covering technology for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is really quite tall. A patent battle between Google and Microsoft ...

A random glitch in Google Maps caused pandemonium on German roadways during Ascension Day. For some reason, the app was showing dozens of road closures. However, those roads were not actually closed.