Sony has joined forces with satnav specialist TomTom to introduce the Xplod range of in-car navigation devices. Both the snappily titled XNV-L77BT and the XNV-L66BT will comprise Sony’s AV head unit and TomTom’s navigation module, offering...

Talk to any mobile phone user and they'll probably know all about Google Maps. It's a system that provides plenty of benefits - it's free, relatively quick, and works if you don't have GPS in your phone. In comparison, Nokia Ovi Maps has always been...

In a hastily arranged press conference also streamed live online via YouTube's new live broadcast functionality, Google has announced the launch of a new social web experience called "Buzz".

Taking a dig at Twitter and Facebook by saying...

Following the release of a new version of its Ovi Maps, making the mapping and navigation software and service free on certain phones, Nokia has announced it has hit a milestone.

Nokia says over 1.4 million have downloaded the application...

As if there weren't tons of online options offering pretty much the same thing for free, including its own Bing maps product that offers route planning, smartphones that offer free navigation and a plethora of in-car options, Microsoft has launched...

Nokia is upping the ante in the mobile phone navigation market with the news it is to make walking and driving navigation free as part of a new version of Ovi Maps, as it looks to find ways of enticing smartphone customers to buy Nokia phones.

As the iPhone becomes officially available on the Vodafone network in the UK, the operator has announced the launch of two new apps for the device.
 
The first is the free "Vodafone 360 People Sync App" said to be developed to help customers...

Google has some rather nifty tricks up its sleeve for Street View, as a recently-granted patent reveals the online giant has cunning plans to keep any advertising that can be seen on the service relevant.

The plans would see posters, signs...

Garmin has announced that it's launched a software download called VoiceStudio, which will enable you to put your own voice on your Garmin sat nav.

Giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "sick of the sound of your own voice" it could,...

Google has teamed up with Audi to offer its Google Earth product preinstalled in the newly-unveiled Audi A8. Except it'll be even better than the regular desktop Google Earth - as it'll have built-in navigation.

Users will get 3D satellite...

Following on from the release of the European versions of iGO My Way 2009 for iPhone, a British Isles edition has now been made available.

As you might imagine, the British Isles version covers the United Kingdom and Ireland and offers...

Drivers keen to keep on the right side of the law as far as speeding goes can now download a camera locator application direct to their mobile phone from RoadPilot.

RoadPilot Mobile is due to be available on an annual subscription basis,...

"Snoop Speak" is now available to download for your TomTom GPS device thanks to VoiceSkins.com, that's brought the vocals of the hip hop artist to the British roadway system.

Phrases include the incomprehensible: "Take tha third left, and...

A recently revealed job vacancy at Apple suggests the company has something up its sleeve for the iPhone's GPS functionality and related mapping applications.

Apple is currently advertising for a a software engineer with "familiarity with...

In light of the recent floods in Cumbria, TomTom is drawing its customers' attention to how to update their UK maps, using TomTom Map Share technology.  

Map Share lets TomTom users add to, update and personalise the maps on their device...