WP8 Waze Beta Preview

On June 18th, the Waze Beta app for Windows Phone was finally released to select beta testers. Although Google's recent acquisition of Waze has brought on thoughts of concern for the app's future on the Windows Phone platform, the beta release shows a good start to the app's eventual release.

Google Maps returns to Windows Phone

For those keeping track of the Google vs Microsoft battle regarding Google Maps, it seems that Google has re-activated access to Windows Phone users. Google first claimed that Google Maps wasn't compatible with mobile IE, then said it was running performance tests. Whatever the reason, access seems to be restored for now ...

Source : The Verge

Google vs. Microsoft *UPDATE*

The release of Windows Phone 8 brought along a bunch of new users who use many of Google's products. Google has a big presence on the internet so it's no doubt that a lot of internet users make use of their various products as such Gmail, Google Maps, Google Calendars, Google Drive, and more. Unfortunately, Google seems intent to prevent these users from easily using their products on their new Microsoft device.

Initially, Google made a statement that they wouldn't be concentrating on releasing their mobile apps on Windows Phone 8, all of which are readily available on iOS and of course, Android, due to the low marketshare. Google then stated that they would stop support for CalDAV, an internet standard for syncing, which would render Google Calendar useless for new users.

And now more recently, they seem to have blocked access to Google Maps via the mobile Internet Explorer web browser.