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Waze to go: The app to cheat rush-hour traffic

Navigation app Waze has become so commonplace at this point, it is already hard to think of a life without it.…

Waze sets out to eliminate ‘tunnel blindness’ on mobile maps

SAN FRANCISCO — The popular navigation app Waze is putting a new twist on the phrase “tunnel vision.” It’s trying to ensure drivers relying on digital maps don’t lose their way when their GPS signal disappears in…

Cebu voted world’s worst place to be a driver

Think Metro Manila’s traffic is the worst?  Wait till you get to drive around Cebu City, rated in a recent study as  the “worst place in the world to be a driver.” The Queen City of the…

Controversies linked to driving app Waze

Waze, the Israeli-developed driving app now owned by Google, found itself linked to controversy Tuesday after two Israeli soldiers who were using the app mistakenly entered a Palestinian refugee camp, sparking bloody clashes. READ: Traffic app Waze…

Traffic app Waze says not at fault for Israel troops losing way

Google-owned traffic app Waze hit back on Tuesday at suggestions its directions led Israeli soldiers into a Palestinian refugee camp where they were attacked, sparking bloody clashes. Two Israeli soldiers were said to be using the app…

Manila toughest city to navigate, says auto tech firm study

Manila was voted the toughest city to navigate in the world, a recent survey from automobile technology company Drivemode showed. The research revealed that more half (58 percent) of drivers in Manila used navigation apps such as…

Awaken the Force on Waze with C-3PO voice navigation

Popular navigation app Waze has signed up Star Wars droid C-3PO to act as navigation voice. In a tie-up for the upcoming movie Star Wars: the Force Awakens, Waze has made available C-3PO as a voice option.…

Metro Manila has ‘worst city traffic on Earth’ — Waze

The Philippines has another world record on its belt as Metro Manila is reported as having the worst city traffic in the world, the results of the first “Global Driver Satisfaction Index” (GDSI) by traffic and navigation…

US police want Waze to remove police tracking-report

Police in the USA are asking tech company Waze to turn off its police tracking feature. Waze is a navigation app that uses crowdsourced data to route around heavy traffic, as well as warn users on road…

Waze stirs ‘conflict’ between motorists, residents

LOS ANGELES — When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were…

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