GMAIL USERS: You’re welcome to join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account . Google Buzz is not a rival to Facebook or Twitter, says Google exec Bradley Horowitz — instead he sees it as a platform for conversation, and hopes other services will be able to flow in and out …

Remember that hand-waving trick that got a Nexus One to give up the 3G ghost way, way too easily? Well, we don’t want to pop the champagne just yet, but there’s a new non-over-the-air firmware update floating around that includes yet another radio bump among its sundry features, …

Here’s a nice surprise from Google’s Maps team: just like Gmail, Google Maps now also have the Labs feature (it’s the little green vial in the top right menu), which brings experimental new features for you to try out. Right now, you can try out nine new features (all disabled…

GMAIL USERS: You can now follow Mashable’s official Google Buzz profile here: http://www.google.com/profiles/mashable Wow, things really are rolling out fast. After announcing their breakthrough new Gmail feature, Google Buzz , Google is making sure that everything else they do is buzzed (or at least buzzable). Google …

Looks like Android’s getting in on the new Google Buzz party in more ways than one today — in addition to support in the browser , Maps 4.0 is now in the Android Market and it’s all Buzz-ed up and ready to go. We’ve heard from both Droid and G1 owners that it works …

Google just announced that it’s bringing some serious location-based integration to its services, all centered around the new Buzz social networking tool built into Gmail. Google’s going to do location better than the usual latitude / longitude coordinates — it’s able to snap those to actual place names and then take context-…

Google keeps adding new features to Google Maps and Google Earth . The latest: As of today you can type in a restaurant or other place you like in Google Maps and receive recommendations of nearby places you might like just as much or more. Sure, it’s not quite as radical…

At the beginning of the week, Dag Kittlaus wrote a post for Mashable about the birth of the virtual assistant . Today, Dag’s company, Siri , is releasing its iPhone app, Siri Assistant . Siri helps people get things done, by combining intelligent voice recognition with hooks into tons of different web …

Remember when mashups were all the rage? Lately, they’re rarely mentioned, but that doesn’t mean a good mashup can’t be a fantastic service, even one that can replace several others. A mashup called Roomatlas ended up in our inbox, with a fairly simple description: it combines Google Maps …

Several weeks ago, Google made some serious waves when it launched Google Maps Navigation for Android . The app made Google an instant player in the GPS market. To add insult to injury, Google made the app free, which has ravaged share prices for Garmin and TomTom . Still, the app was only launched for …