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Nokia, the largest handset manufacturer in the world, and Lonely Planet, the famous travel guidebook publisher, have just announced the availability of Lonely Planet for Nokia Maps 2.0. From now on, Nokia users who love to travel can get Lonely Planet city guides for more than 100 destinations. The guides are inte... |
19 August 2008
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For the past few days, reports about the cyber attack on Georgia, which disrupted the government sites and other .ge domains, have flooded the news websites and blogs all over the world. New reactions emerged, as security researcher Gadi Evron thinks the attacks could be carried out by kids, while Google denies delet... |
13 August 2008
11:26 GMT |
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AT&T has proudly announced that it's the first mobile operator in the US to offer a GPS-based service to its subscribers who travel abroad. More exactly, the largest North American carrier has gone global with the AT&T Navigator software, which now offers coverage for more than 20 countries. AT&T Navigator Glob... |
23 July 2008
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For a high school student, Geography may seem a difficult subject due to the large amount of information that needs to be assimilated. Unlike many, I actually liked studying Geography and the main reason was probably the fact that I found a logical way to memorize the names and locations of all the countries, cities ... |
30 June 2008
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The Mountain View-based company released an updated version of Google Earth a few days ago, a new edition of the downloadable mapping tool which is supposed to correct several glitches spotted in the 4.3 beta version rolled out some weeks ago. As you probably remember, Google has recently released Google Earth 4.3 be... |
5 May 2008
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Today, the Mountain View-based company Google has rolled out what seems to be one of the most important releases of Google Earth, namely the 4.3 version. Although it shouldn't be regarded as a major update (Google Earth 5 should, though), this new edition comes with multiple important improvements.As mentioned e... |
16 April 2008
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Modern people can't live without advertising, and advertising definitely can't "live" without people, that's why we'll see various new ways of advertising in the future, ways intended to bring advertisers closer to consumers. Relevantis, a US-based advertising technologies developer, announ... |
25 February 2008
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Nokia announced today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the release of the new 2.0 Beta version of the popular Nokia Maps application. The 2.0 version takes mapping and navigation experiences to a new level by improving its pedestrian navigation, offering satellite images, adding multimedia city guides and ... |
11 February 2008
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Microsoft has accompanied Windows Vista to the market with a comprehensive package of products designed to support the upgrading and migration from older versions of the Windows operating system, to the latest client available. In this context, while home users running XP had the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisorat their... |
28 January 2008
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Sports maps have been popping up every once in a while, but none has been as good and as detailed as this one is: SoccerMap.net is the best I've seen so far when it comes down to a single sport, and one of the most popular as well. There's nothing missing from it, it's virtually an encyclopedia updated... |
25 January 2008
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The commonest maps are those containing data on the relief. Thematic maps focus on a specific topic, like temperature or rainfall. To be valid, maps are permanently revised, to reflect changes that may occur, like newly built roads or building demolitions. These details are essential for defining borders, from small ... |
22 January 2008
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I was just looking at some of the maps the people interested in the presidential elections have created and I could not help but be amazed at their ingenuity. Following in the footsteps of their politically oriented fellow Google Maps users, the fans of the Lost series have set up a map to welcome the fourth season,... |
16 January 2008
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"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" - Neil Armstrong said that when he first set foot on the moon, and it's something we should say right now (OK, maybe if we overreact it a little). The thing is that Epic has just announced that the first ever user created content for a gaming console... |
21 December 2007
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It's not like it's iPhone's birthday, but in February next year the Apple phone will have a little present: its own external GPS module; and also: the GPS device that will "match" the Google maps application, which is already in works. Even more, the real prototype is available.The much expected iPhon... |
17 December 2007
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Never a dull day with Yahoo! Announcing and releasing yesterday two new services at once, a social network (KickStart) and a platform service (FireEagle), it decided to keep something for later. Later in the day that is: in Korea, Yahoo! announced the beginning a Korean - language map service that is distinct from En... |
6 November 2007
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We are accustomed to the official maps, which represent each country directly connected to its surface. That is a real map of the planet. But what if we tried to draw a map which would be directly proportional to the population size of each country?The result is an extremely 'swollen' China or India, a rela... |
3 November 2007
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Yesterday, the Mountain View company rolled out a new unexpected update for the downloadable mapping tool Google Earth but it avoided presenting the updated locations in order to involve the fans of the application into some kind of contest. That's why the company's officials published a blog post yesterday... |
25 October 2007
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Following the recent Google Earth update rolled out a few days ago, the fans of the application started discovering new hidden functions of the program, which were not revealed by Google. In fact, this seems to become a Google strategy because the Mountain View company avoided publishing the release notes in order to... |
12 October 2007
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Nokia announced new versions of Nokia Maps and Nokia Map Loader, applications that were downloaded more than 1 million times each since their launching back in February. Michael Halbherr, a Nokia official, spoke about the new features of Nokia Maps at the Canalys Navigation forum in Barcelona. As of today, the new v... |
11 September 2007
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Google Earth tends to become more powerful day by day. Every week, the Mountain View company introduces new features, functions or other goodies that make Google Earth more powerful. A few weeks ago, the search giant implemented Sky in Google Earth, a revolutionary function that provides one click access to impressiv... |
31 August 2007
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Google Earth 4.2 was released a few days ago but the parent company Google didn't publish any change log to reveal the improvements of the latest version of the application. That's why the Internet users and the fans of the downloadable mapping tool are digging into the program in order to find new things a... |
28 August 2007
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Columbus may have been proud to discover the New World in 1492, but we clearly know that he was not the first European to have stepped on American land. 500 years before, a group of blond Scandinavians had done it. It happened during the Viking era, when these sailors-warriors were roaming northern Africa, eastern Eu... |
9 August 2007
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Some time ago, it was rumored that Google is interested in developing a new version of Google Earth, the mapping tool that could assault the enterprise market. Today, it seems like those speculations are somehow true because several details about a potential Google Earth Enterprise were revealed on the Internet. Acco... |
26 July 2007
06:55 GMT |
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loopt announced that its social mapping service is going to launch with mobile operator Sprint in the coming weeks. The loopt service will allow Sprint customers to share their location with friends, send proximity-based messages and view location-based photos and content on the go using the GPS capabilities of selec... |
17 July 2007
10:18 GMT |
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The revolutionary mapping tool Google Earth is more and more used with a different goal than the original one that encouraged users to view satellite maps and other imagery with the entire world. According to USA Today, Mary Ann Hitt, executive director of non-profit Appalachian Voices, sustained that numerous organi... |
8 June 2007
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Google finally acquired Panoramio, a company that was the search giant's partner for a long time, providing high-resolution photos for Google Earth. The Spain based website has a huge database of pictures from all around the world, offering information about the geographical location where they were captured. As... |
31 May 2007
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Google Maps, the web-based service that allows users to view maps and satellite imagery, received one more update to improve its functionality. As you know, the product is able to provide driving directions but sometimes, the suggestions are not very useful to some users. For example, a scooter rider cannot drive ont... |
24 May 2007
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The battle between Google and Yahoo is known to the entire world because the two Internet giants are challenging one another in numerous domains. I think all of you admit that Google owns the best search engine in the virtual world, while Yahoo is struggling to compete with the search giant using its own search techn... |
17 May 2007
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The Mountain View-based company was quite fast and managed to update Google Earth and Google Maps quickly to provide the users alternative routes for San Francisco and Oakland. As you might know, a considerable part of an Oakland road was damaged after it collapsed under a huge fire caused by an explosion. Because mo... |
3 May 2007
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A Chinese student living in the US, has managed to get himself arrested. Nothing spectacular so far - most of you are probably thinking that this has something to do with guns or drugs. Not even close! The vigilant law enforcers nailed him for a gaming-related "felony", Counter-Strike to be more exact, as Joystiq rep... |
2 May 2007
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Australia is probably one of the largest countries that were by-passed in the Google expansion, but this land will become an important part of the company soon. Some time ago, the search giant started the Australian conquest with Google Maps and Google Earth by adding several high-quality photos with Sydney and other... |
1 May 2007
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Matt Mackall has recently released at the Embedded Linux Conference, a set of patches that improves the way memory usage information is made available. The memory usage process on Linux is complicated and it deals with many direct or indirect factors. The most commonly used tool to get a memory usage report is the p... |
25 April 2007
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Ever since the Stone Age people started to create maps. The main purpose of map-making was to be aware of your location taking into account, in ancient times, various geographical features. The first world map was made around 600BC in Babylonia called Imago Mundi. Starting with the great discoverers, the technology a... |
14 April 2007
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Google owns two of the most popular products on the Internet, Maps and Earth, allowing users to view satellite maps and other imagery with the entire world. Because it shows every corner of the world, the search giant blurred or even removed certain locations to avoid a malicious use of the photos. Although Google re... |
13 April 2007
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Google Earth, the downloadable application able to display maps and other imagery with the entire world straight from the desktop, receives another important update meant to consolidate the leader position of the application. After the parent company Google signed a deal with Trimble Outdoors, the search giant announ... |
13 April 2007
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Although Google is a company with professional and high-quality products, it seems like the search giant tends to be based more and more on the content provided by the its users. Take the example of YouTube, the video service acquired by Google in October 2006 that recorded an impressive number of visitors looking fo... |
27 March 2007
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The GoogleBomb is an attempt to modify the search results returned by a search engine and especially by Google, using a simple procedure to influence the websites displayed according to a keyword. In the past, there were numerous GoogleBomb attempts recorded by the search giant concerning George W. Bush or other poli... |
26 March 2007
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Bonn, Germany have realized the first global map of estimated plant species richness. The map assessed three hundred thousand species and is the most extensive map of the distribution of biodiversity on Earth to date. The map signals very cl... |
21 March 2007
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Many scientists think that if on the Sun system there were another body than Earth harboring life, that would be Europa, the fourth largest of Jupiter's satellites. A salty ocean was found beneath its icy surface. Europa compasses all the ingredients life requires: liquid water, an energy source (delivered by th... |
16 March 2007
07:23 GMT |
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Valve's debut title, Half-Life, sold millions of copies all over the world. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsiveness, Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the ph... |
13 March 2007
05:13 GMT |
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AtlasCT, a provider of mapping solutions, announced the availability of the social photo sharing and mapping application, ReLive!, for mobile operators, web portals and social networks. ReLive! enables users to take photos with their mobile phones and then easily tag the photos to their precise location on a map. Use... |
9 March 2007
06:29 GMT |
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Google's Earth, the downloadable application that allows users to view maps and other satellite imagery directly from your desktop, doesn't infringe any copyright, a San Francisco court said today. Google won the lawsuit filed against the company after the judge sustained the search giant's application... |
8 March 2007
09:21 GMT |
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Halo 2 is the sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved. In Halo 2, the saga continues as Master Chief-a genetically enhanced super-soldier-is the only thing standing between the relentless Covenant and the destruction of all humankind. Fight side by side with fellow human survivor... |
6 March 2007
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