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Google Maps is great for mapping out a trip, getting directions, or finding a Chinese restaurant near you, but Google Earth manages to make maps actually fun. The latest version of Google's 3D mapping software just shed its beta tag after getting rid of most of the lingering bugs. With Google Earth 5.1 the focu... |
19 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Google is facing issues with its Street View service yet again. It seems that every time the service opens up in another country the same discussion pops up with officials worried about privacy. It happened in Germany, it happened in Greece, in Japan and the UK, and so on. Now, Switzerland is saying its piece, with t... |
13 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular as more mobile devices get GPS features and people are less concerned about their privacy. There are a couple of hot startups, like Foursquares, catering to this space, but Google has now updated its own similar service Latitude with a couple of new features,... |
11 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Google Street View has been expanding to more and more countries and locations, but it has just now finally finished with the US having included the final state, Hawaii. Fittingly, the 50th US state became the 50th to be featured in the service. And to mark the occasion, Google has also launched an online gallery wit... |
10 November 2009
07:06 GMT |
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One of the newest features Google has decided to include in its Google Maps for mobile is the New York City subway system. What this means is that the solution now sports “a layer that overlays NYC subway routes on a map,” something that should offer users a simple way to navigate through the subway syste... |
7 November 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Online mapping services are becoming increasingly popular and useful and, as a result of that, more profitable for those running them. All the big players are present in the space, Google, of course, which started it all, but also Yahoo and Microsoft. They each have their advantages, but what most people don't r... |
5 November 2009
11:26 GMT |
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Maybe the Holloween spirit hasn't completely worn off or maybe Google is adding a new 'feature,' but it looks like Google Maps is now listing ghost towns that show up as real places, but that don't actually exist. UK users are reporting the town of Argleton in the L39 postcode, which shows up on G... |
2 November 2009
10:22 GMT |
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Over the summer, Google introduced the Real Estate listing to Google Maps and, since then, it has been working on improving the feature. When it was first introduced, it proved somewhat useful, but it was still lacking and couldn't really be seen as a real alternative to real-estate search engines. But Google d... |
30 October 2009
12:32 GMT |
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Google has been pushing hard in the mobile space with its Android operating system for smartphones, which is now mature enough to tackle the best phones out there. The devices running Android are also getting more competitive especially with the new Motorola Droid announced today. But being just as good wasn't g... |
28 October 2009
12:10 GMT |
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Google Maps is closing in on five years now and the mapping service was in need of a little touching up, as it was looking a little dated, but, more importantly, because it was getting very crowded with more and more information added over time. So, Google decided it was finally time to make some changes and, by Goog... |
24 October 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Google Maps isn't exactly Google's most controversial product. It's taken a lot of heat over Google Books, Street View and others. In some parts of the world though the mapping service is causing quite an outrage at an international level and Google is forced to maintain its impartial stance while also... |
23 October 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Google Maps has evolved almost beyond recognition since it was first launched but the search giant is far from satisfied. Having a 2D world to explore and play with is nice but a fully tridimensional one is so much better. Not content with just having some amusement park or famous buildings in 3D in Google Earth, the... |
14 October 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Not content with just conquering your browser, your computer, not even the world, Google is now boldly going where no search engine has gone before, outer space, to collect even better data for its Google Maps offering. OK, it isn't Google per se that is leaving the Earth's atmosphere and it isn't the ... |
13 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Google Maps is one of the company's most successful products and one of the earliest. But despite its popularity it's far from perfect and one area where it could improve is the basic map data which, even in places where there is plenty of information, like the US, it is still lacking in certain aspects. Go... |
8 October 2009
11:00 GMT |
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Google partnered with game maker Hasbro earlier this month to launch Monopoly City Streets, a take on the classic game with a Google Maps twist. The game allows users to own any street in the world and build up properties on it, while also competing against each other. The title is well underway and Google is now rev... |
30 September 2009
11:07 GMT |
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Google recently launched Place Pages, a new feature for Maps that aggregates a variety of information from several sources for all kinds of 'places'. While the feature has a lot of potential and could proven very useful there are some that are worried that Google may use its position to favor it over simila... |
28 September 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Google Maps is a great place for finding local businesses or places of interest but users may soon get more than what they bargained for as the company may start adding ads inside the maps themselves. It is currently experimenting with several formats and one idea that may find its way to users in the US and Australi... |
26 September 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Google Maps is one of the search giant's earliest major projects and since its launch has evolved and grown to add a huge number of features and functionality. For most places, be it cities, businesses and many other locations, Maps has a lot of information but, until now, it was only accessible through the info... |
25 September 2009
04:43 GMT |
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Google may be best known for its online services but it is now a huge company with interests in all sorts of markets and technologies. Even so, 3D modeling software isn't exactly the first thing you think about when you say Google, but the company does this as well with SketchUp, which just made it to version 7.... |
23 September 2009
09:19 GMT |
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With its hands on almost every form of online service, Google is now trying its hand at Monopoly – the game version, at least for now, partnering with board-game maker Hasbro, or rather the other way around, to bring the new Monopoly City Streets, a game that will allow users to own real estates around the worl... |
8 September 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Google has recently improved its Google Maps service with a more advanced and powerful “Street View” extension for local business listings. People searching for a service or business with Google Maps now have the option “Street View” that enables them to look up a company in real 3D imagery.Af... |
28 August 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Google has added a new, potentially very useful, layer to Maps, allowing users to see the live traffic conditions in several cities across the US. Live traffic may not be something new for the highways but Google is introducing the feature for all arterial roads, making it much easier for commuters to plan their dail... |
26 August 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Google Maps has grown considerably since it was first introduced and has become one of the search giant's most important and well-known products. The list of features and information that has been added is practically endless – if you happen to live in some of the more developed parts of the world that is.... |
20 August 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Street View is a great product but many times its usefulness has been overshadowed by the controversy surrounding it. It has been met with reluctance, sometimes even heavy criticism, in many of the countries it has been deployed but a new site Google has set up aims to educate the public and present some of the benef... |
5 August 2009
08:47 GMT |
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Google Maps can be a very useful tool and for some it has become a daily necessity. But like any other product in the world it isn't perfect and one of the most common features people were asking for was the possibility to do several searches at the same time. Finally, Google listened to its users and introduced... |
23 July 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Google has just released a new update for its popular Google Maps for mobile, which has now reached version 3.2, and which comes with a few quite interesting new features, as well as with a series of bug fixes. New in this release are layers, along with a browse category option, a My Maps layer, and additional search... |
23 July 2009
01:48 GMT |
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Google is continually updating its search, still the biggest and most lucrative part of its business, and today is launching a feature that should be useful when searching for locations for your next vacation. Google will now show map information but also photos of the most popular attractions in that location right ... |
11 July 2009
04:34 GMT |
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Geolocation is a popular topic these days as more people are using mobile devices or laptops to browse the Internet wherever they may be, not just at the office or at home. One of the major new features in Firefox 3.5, though it didn't get too much notice, and also available in Chrome or other browsers with the ... |
10 July 2009
05:21 GMT |
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As Google is trying to become everything for everyone, it is, yet again, set to raise a few concerns from the established businesses. In its latest move, the company added real-estate information to Google Maps linking potential buyers and renters to real-estate agents. The feature was developed at Google's Sydn... |
6 July 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Google is getting into everything these days, and the latest feature to be introduced is the new City Tours, which, as the name implies, can be used to plan short trips in cities around the world. City Tours has debuted in Google Labs, the company's experimental products site, and Google hasn't even made th... |
25 June 2009
07:35 GMT |
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It seems that Android mobile phone users can now enjoy an upgraded version of Google Maps for their handsets. According to the Mountain View-based company, the new version comes with improvements for Latitude, as well as with a series of new features, among which we can mention the fact that users can now perform voi... |
16 June 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Google Street View is a great tool but some found the way you navigate from one picture to the next rather confusing or at least annoying. As a result, the search giant decided to address this issue and, as such, it launched the “pancake” feature, which allows users to just double click on the place or ob... |
5 June 2009
03:23 GMT |
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Google is adding new functionality to Local Business Center, its service aimed at local businesses, which currently allows real-world enterprises to create small listings that show up in Google Maps for matching searches. Now the search giant will also add a wealth of data on how people find them through searches and... |
2 June 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Google has announced a new feature for the popular mapping service Google Maps today in the form of an ad module. The Maps Ad Unit, as it is called, can be integrated into your existing Google Maps API implementation. The Maps Ad Unit is an optional feature that geo developers and others who use Google Maps on thei... |
22 May 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Google suffered yet another blow to its Street View program, when numerous complaints coming from all over Japan have forced authorities to ask the company to re-shoot all of its pictures in the country. Most of the people who had something to say about the pictures argued that they were too revealing, and that the c... |
14 May 2009
10:38 GMT |
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Google has recently issued an update for the popular Google Maps for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices, bringing some major fixes to Google Latitude – the service that is able to keep track of users' location while allowing them to share it with social networking friends –, the most important of... |
14 April 2009
02:10 GMT |
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Good news for Verizon Wireless customers that own a BlackBerry Storm, as the Google Maps team recently announced the availability of a fresh version of the Google Maps for mobiles. According to the developers, this version is designed to take advantage of the Storm's internal GPS receiver.The BlackBerry Storm is... |
20 February 2009
04:49 GMT |
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The Google mobile team has announced today that they have added a new feature to Google Maps for mobiles, namely Google Latitude. The new addition is meant to offer users a simple way to find other people with the service, this way extending the functionality offered by My Location for Google Maps, a feature that was... |
4 February 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Palm, Inc. has announced that its small and lightweight Palm Centro smartphone is now available for Canadian users on Bell Mobility's high-speed mobile network. Palm's Centro has been sold worldwide in over two million units, and now it comes to Canada with a soft-touch Midnight Black design, as well as wit... |
3 February 2009
06:55 GMT |
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Those who use Google Earth and Google Maps on a regular basis have surely visited at least once Google Map Help Group and they will be pleased to find that this forum has been recently moved to the new platform of Google Help Forums. It remains a place where users can share their knowledge and discuss aspects of Goog... |
16 January 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Google is unraveling the nooks and crannies of public transportation in over 50 cities worldwide. According to the Mountain View-based search giant, users of Transit will be able to navigate much easier the cities where the feature is available by getting step-by-step transit directions, quickly identifying transit s... |
14 January 2009
16:11 GMT |
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A post on the Google Mobile Blog announces that the popular Google Maps service for mobile phones has been updated with a new feature, allowing users to find businesses while on the go. According to the post, users are now able to easily find stores, restaurants or other various points of interest by simply entering ... |
9 January 2009
04:50 GMT |
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The most popular destination for downloading mobile applications, GetJar, has announced its third annual Mobile Awards. The best applications of the year are considered to be Google Maps, Opera Mini, scanR, Twitter and Strands Social Player. These star applications prove that mobile phone programs have become an inte... |
30 December 2008
12:26 GMT |
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About one month after Google announced the improvement of the My Location feature of its Google Maps product, the time has come for yet another enhancement. This time users can get even more accurate location information by using mobile phones with Wi-Fi capabilities.For those who don't know, the My Location fea... |
22 October 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Our readers are familiar with the details on the better-quality imagery that Google Earth and Google Maps will soon benefit from. The 50 cm ground resolution images will turn the two Google applications into more than just fun tools, as they will offer an extensive view on various regions on the globe. This will all ... |
8 September 2008
03:35 GMT |
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Google's two popular projects, Google Earth and Google Maps, will benefit from images of a much better quality than that of those currently employed. The company has signed a contract with GeoEye, a satellite imagery provider, which will offer, according to Reuters as cited by the Washington Post, the most ... |
29 August 2008
10:57 GMT |
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The first screenshots of Nike's upcoming application for iPhone have emerged on the web. It was already common knowledge that Apple and Nike were planning to introduce yet another version of the Nike+ equipment, this time for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The leaked UI screens are here to confirm their pro... |
20 August 2008
09:49 GMT |
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To come to the assistance of travelers, but not exclusively to them, Google has developed a tool that allows users to get directions from Google Maps, every time they want to have a sidewalk view of a city. After asking for walking directions, people will be guided to the shortest path to their destinations. "Startin... |
23 July 2008
09:21 GMT |
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The children of Google employees spent this past week in the "Geo Camp," a place where they could get in touch with Google Earth, Maps and Docs. These applications are probably the most appealing for kids between 9 and 12 years old, whose passion for all things science, nature and gadgets is vivid. After a week of ha... |
22 July 2008
05:47 GMT |
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The Google Mobile Team has just released its first downloadable iPhone application. Simply dubbed "Google Mobile App," the free software lets you search for anything (including contacts), providing you with search suggestions that the application remembers once you start using them more often. Best of all, if you sea... |
11 July 2008
06:13 GMT |
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