Android 2.0 introduced Google Maps with turn by turn navigation. If you’re a gadget geek as well as someone who follows the stock markets, you would have noticed when this was announced that stock prices for Tomtom, Garmin, and other GPS makers dropped. Google Maps with navigation provides navigation, maps search, business search, basically everything you get from Google Maps, in general, with Google’s online mapping. So why did this spell doom for the GPS makers? Google Maps with turn by turn navigation is included with Android 2.0 and all map data is updated frequently at no additional charge. The GPS makers do not update their map data frequently, and most of them charge for their updates.
Meebo IM is an instant messaging application for multiple platforms, including Android. It allows using multiple IM services, including the major ones such as Live, GTalk, AIM, and others. It is a reasonably light weight application that has a service running in the background to maintain your connections so that you can receive IMs at any time.
