Google has added free open source client libraries for Java and Python to the Google Maps API. The API provides a set of web services that you can use to integrate maps into connected applications.

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Nearly 11 years after the dispute began, Google v Oracle seems to have finally come to an end. In a 6-2 decision delivered ...

Java may be a beverage best served hot, but was Google’s use of Java, the software, hot, as in stolen, i.e., from Oracle, which developed the language? In a key ruling last month in a landmark ...

A jury has found that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights in Android but could not decide unanimously if the infringement was protected by “fair use.” The jury’s verdict, delivered Monday after ...

On July 16, Google Maps is going to make it more difficult and expensive to use its API, which could make custom maps that rely on the service less sustainable or even unfeasible for the people who ...

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 ...

A price hike to Google Maps’ API has real estate professionals worried. The changes to Google Maps’ pricing structure could leave large brokerages paying 1,400 percent more. A price hike to the Google ...

Oracle recently lost its attempt to use patent and copyright law to force Google to pay US$9 billion for using parts of its Java computer language. Nine billion dollars isn’t chump change, not even ...