Public transit data, a key piece of the Google Maps experience, will soon find its way into third-party applications as the map-making experts at Google have just added transit to its Maps API. Now ...

You’re probably familiar with Google Transit Maps, especially if you live in an urban area. Earlier in 2009, Google added the Transit Maps feature as an overlay to Google Maps, highlighting available ...

It’s no secret that Google is trying to bring the best thing about Waze to Google Maps. That’s the rich incident reports feature that Waze users loved so much — the crowdsourced data that’s used to ...

Don’t you love squeezing into a jam-packed subway car, smushed up against the sliding doors, with one arm pinned down by your side as you grasp at a sweaty handrail with the other, while clutching a ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. It's not ...