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Google has opened invites to its Trekker program, where a backpack camera captures panoramic images from exotic locales around the world.

The FTC will investigate Google for its $1 billion acquisition of traffic and navigation app Waze.

Developers are rolling out more features for Google Glass, but there are seven things you're not allowed, or able, to do with it.

Google's conference may not have been as sexy this year as it was in 2012, but it still had a lot of great stuff. Here are the highlights.

The new Google Maps moves Earth, quite literally, to the company's popular mobile and desktop apps.

Google didn't leave search out of I/O with big updates to Google Know, voice search and knowledge graph.

A new video imagines a world where Google has worked out the kinks in Glass to show the possibilities.

Leaked photos show a possible update to Google Maps, bringing a new focus to mobile and social media.

The latest update to the Google Search app for iOS introduced Google Now to Apple’s line of mobile devices.

Germany fined Google the maximum penalty possible for privacy violations, but Google can recover the sum in a matter of minutes.

Google had plenty of April Fools' Day pranks including Gmail Blue, Google Nose Beta and Treasure Mode for Google Maps.

Apple's newest acquisition WiFiSLAM allows users to navigate indoor locations with pinpoint accuracy.

There has been a 29 percent increase in unique iOS 6 users in the short week since Google Maps was reinstated on iOS.

A Google executive has announced that its Maps app has broken 10 million downloads in its first 48 hours.

Google on Thursday released its hallmark Maps app for iOS 6, following the unsuccessful launch of Apple's own Maps app this fall.

Apple finally cut ties with the last major player responsible for Apple's half-baked mapping application on Tuesday.

Nokia released its HERE Maps app for iOS on Tuesday, but some reviewers have reported shortcomings with the newest iOS maps addition.

Google's transparency report shows government requests for user data are on the rise, but they're watching you themselves.

A little more than a week after its release, Apple’s latest Maps application for iOS 6 has been received so negatively by the tech world that the company even issued an apology for the app being inferior to Google Maps. And now Apple has removed a phrase on the company's website that had touted the app as the most "powerful” map app on the market.

Apple won't remove its new Maps app from iOS 6, so the Cupertino, Calif.-based computers company is all about damage control right now. After Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an open letter apology to the company's website on Friday morning, Apple also updated its App Stores with a special section on the Featured page, which offers a list of alternative maps applications for users to choose from as Apple engineers fix its controversial Maps app behind the scenes.

If you have an iPhone 4, iPod touch, or below running iOS 6, you can now downgrade to iOS 5.1.1 using Redsn0w. However, you need to have your SHSH blobs (Signature HaSH blobs) saved for iOS 5.1.1 as Apple has stopped signing iOS 5.1.1.