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Following up on the small announcement made this morning, Google has gone into further detail regarding its new Google Maps Navigation application for devices based on Android 2.0.

Google has announced the inclusion of Android 2.0 support in both the SDK and in the changelog along with a companion video ahead of the Droid announcement tomorrow. Read More for the changelog with the most important new features.

Verizon’s Policy Blog has been updated with a joint statement from Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam and Google CEO Eric Schmidt regarding the FCC’s push for national net neutrality policy which begins tomorrow with preliminary policy development.

Google has announced the addition of “Layers” to Google Maps for BlackBerry.
With the addition of layers  you are now able to view different types of information about the area around you.

” For example, you can turn on the Wikipedia layer to read entries about nearby places, then use the transit lines layer to [...]

LG has finally decided to hop on the Android boat, and has announced their very first Android handset, the LG GW620.
Like Samsung, LG has decided to leave the Android operating system untouched, rather than masking it, like we have seen on the HTC Hero. The phone has a large 3 inch, possibly HVGA resolution, touchscreen [...]

Apple, AT&T and Google have filed their answers with the FCC regarding the organization’s official inquiry into the rejection of the Google Voice iPhone application.
Apple has stated that the company was acting alone when it chose to initially reject the Google Voice application on the grounds that it duplicated its dialer functionality, but has now [...]

Google has announced that it has enabled its MyLocation location aware search service for Mobile Safari on the iPhone.
The service works by the user conductiong search for a particular product or place, and MyLocation then relies on cellsite triangulation relative to the location of the device to provide relevant results.
The service requires activation before use [...]

Google has announced that it has launched two dedicated applications for its Google Voice call forwarding service, one for Android and one for the BlackBerry.
The applications feature voicemail transcriptions, the ability to call and text with the Google Voice number, and low-cost international dialing along with address book integration. The application can be downloaded [...]

Google has announced improvements to its Mobile Gmail implementation for the iPhone and Android devices with hardware keyboards.
On the iPhone, auto-completion has been accelerated when typing in the name and address fields, while Android users using the HTC Dream can now take advantage of GMail keyboard shortcuts.

In a post on the Google Mobile Blog, Google has announced that Android version 1.5 will enable video recording and video upload directly to YouTube along with voice controlled search, Picasa Web album upload, and Gmail thread control to manage multiple conversations.
The Android 1.5 update is not currently available to US T-Mobile G1 users yet, [...]