After recently bringing its free turn-by-turn navigation service to India, Google has made the service available to other countries in the middle-east.

Waze is a smartphone based app that gathers and notifies about important traffic information crowdsourced from community of users. The new version also offers discounts on gas prices and locate points of interests along the route you are travelling.

Google has updated its Maps software to support indoor mapping that offers floor by floor navigation in retail stores, airports and other public places.

SpotMe is a specialized mobile device to get all event attendees activated and engaged in event activities and the networking around it.

Google has selected INRIX’s real-time traffic information to help power its navigation and mapping applications. INRIX’s real-time traffic information for major motorways will be integrated with Google products and services online and on mobile phones.

Google Navigation has been available on mobile devices on many countries for over a year now and it is indeed a very competitive mapping and navigation service.