iOS only: Boxcar already did a great job of acting as a great universal push notification app, but now it's even better. The app supports Google Voice and Buzz notifications and offers a new dashboard for choosing how each app notifies you.

Just out of the Gmail Labs is a Google Maps preview function, which appends a miniature map — with full scaling, zoom and other Maps features — to the bottom of any message containing a Maps link.

Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): The marquee features added to social network aggregator TweetDeck are Google Buzz and Foursquare support, plus scheduled updates. What's actually useful, though, are the global filters that weed out oversharing, spam and other annoyances.

BlackBerry users can now get some of the same goodies Android users have been enjoying on their mobile map search, like voice search, synchronised stars and search history, and a few other goodies.

Log into Gmail today and, if you haven't disabled it, there's a good chance Google's Buzz social network will prompt you to look over all your privacy settings.

Besides a killer algorithm and brand-name recognition, Google's greatest strength is its speed at releasing new products. We get to play with new, cool and ever-improving tools for free. Recently, though, we've seen that being unwitting lab subjects can kind of stink.

Google continues its push to make Buzz better (and convince people to use it), today announcing five tips for making Buzz work just how you like it.

A lot of people were upset over how Google handled their privacy when they launched Buzz, and it looks like Google may pay the price in legal fees. According to SFGate, a class action complaint has been filed against Google alleging that it "broke the law when its controversial Google Buzz service shared personal data without the consent of users". Good thing we've got that handy disable button now.

Between Twitter, Facebook and Google's new social networking tool, Buzz, it's hard to turn a corner without running into another social network. But how do you know which networking tool fits you best? We're here — with big charts and all — to help.

In one week, Google's Buzz social network has moved through a splashy launch, a quick fix, a major clean-up, and now, an apology. Buzz's product manager says his team is "very, very sorry" and that (more) fixes are coming this week.

Now that Google's Buzz social network has learned from its mistakes, more users might be keen on actually giving it a go. The Google Operating System blog has a great power user's guide to the finer points of Buzz.

After a week's worth of complaints and confusion, Google is updating Buzz to address many of the privacy concerns and annoyances raised by the new social networking service. The update brings three major changes.

Erick Schonfeld at tech news blog TechCrunch highlights yet another potential privacy hole in Google's young social network (which has already been the cause of much concern). This time, it looks like sending an @reply under certain circumstances can reveal a user's email address. Here's how.

Google claims the option to prevent public contact exposure through Buzz was always there, just not obvious enough. So they've clarified the Buzz setup process, made blocking followers easier and explaining how followers without Buzz/Google profiles are publicly displayed.

Another twist in the Picasa album limits saga, and another potential issue with Google Buzz: sharing photos via Google's social networking service eats into your Picasa album count.

Whether you call it a huge privacy flaw or just an annoyance, Google Buzz can put the contacts you automatically follow — a.k.a. those you most frequently email or chat — on a public profile page. Here's how to undo that.

If you just don't have the bandwidth to manage one more set of social notifications automatically hitting your Gmail inbox, you may not be all that excited about this morning's Google Buzz announcement. Luckily banishing Buzz from your inbox is easy.