After months of rumors of several due diligences from Apple, Facebook, then Google, the later today confirmed their acquisition of Waze, the Israeli social traffic and navigation application.

The deal is said to be worth above $1 Billion, although Google did not confirmed the amount of the acquisition.

Brian McClendon, Vice President, Geo a...

According to market research firm Canalys, 1.5 billion Smartphones will ship in 2017, to account for 73% of all mobile phone shipments worldwide.

Growth in the smart phone market will continue to be driven by Android. In 2012, over 470 million Android-based smart phones shipped and by 2017 this number will have mor...

Yesterday at their I/O conference in the United States Google unveiled a new version of Google Maps which key new features are to provide a more personalized experience and to display the map on a larger portion of the screen plus a number of improvements.

The new version is not available yet (today) altough you can require access through a...

Shipments of smart glasses such as Google Glass could reach up to 6.6 million units in 2016 according to the most optimistic scenario developed by market research firm IHS. This would make a total of 9.4 million units sold within the five-year period 2012-2016.

However the market research firm also has a pessimistic market scenario wher...

On Friday Market research firm IDC said that smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first quarter 2013, which marked the first time more than half (51.6%) the total phone shipments in a quarter were smartphones.

The market grew 41.6% compared to the 152.7 million units shipped in the same quarter the year before, but 5.1% lowe...

“The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has imposed a fine of 145,000 Euros upon Google Inc. due to illegal recording of Wifi networks,“ said the [data protectio...

Google last week published a blog post indicating that its map crowdsourcing community has reached 40,000 monthly users and is now opened in the United Kingdom.

As this community grows one could really wonder what is the incentive for people to dedicate free labor to Google? It might be that some people still believ...

Last week the U.S. patent and Trademark Office awarded Google a new patent that uses...

Tobias Jeske, A researcher from The Institute for Security in Distributed Applications at the Hamburg University of Technology has published an interesting scientific paper where he shows that Google's real-time traffic service can be hacked using false floating car data.

The hack is rather complex but the demonstration shows that a traffi...