Google, at its annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday announced a new Google Maps, rebuilt from the ground up. This is by far the biggest redesign that has ever happened to Google Maps during the last eight years. What’s exciting about the new Google Maps is that users can now see the clouds hover over the world in real-time, but it doesn’t stops ther. You can also look at Earth as a whole planet...
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) reportedly has plans to purchase Waze, a popular Israeli crowdsource and traffic navigation application. The social media giant is also rumored to bid $1 billion for the company. This report also has some people wondering if Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will join in and possibly outbid Facebook for this particular company. Forbes’ Peter Cohan interviewed Waze’s chief executive officer Noam Bardin a few years ago and discovered something interesting. Waze originally started as one...
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Google Glass is truly a unique invention that brings something fresh to the tech market. In a current market that’s saturated by smartphones and tablet computers, it’s refreshing to see something that isn’t an exact replica of the Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone or iPad. It’s probably one of the best moves for Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) as it goes to show they see a future beyond tablet computers. It also shows that they are ready...
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) recently updated their Gmail apps for iOS. They enhanced their official app for iPhone and iPad on Monday. This app includes two small features including the opening behavior for Google Maps, YouTube, and internet links. Updates For Google’s Gmail According to CNET, “Gmail will spawn the respective native YouTube, Google Maps, or Google Chrome app for iOS to handle it. Formerly, such links were instead handled by the relatively inelegant built-in Gmail browser....
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Google Maps lets you zoom in only to a certain level, but what if you want to zoom in more? Is there a way to bypass this restriction imposed by Google? That’s where a Reddit user “xythrowawayy“, has shared a simple trick to zoom in closer than what is allowed on Google Maps. This trick requires you to edit the URL for a given location, which lets you zoom in a level or two....
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California has come a long ways from the days of The Beach Boys, where promises of surf, sand, sun, “Fun, Fun, Fun”, at least until “Daddy takes the T-Bird away”, and beautiful woman were promised to all who made the journey westward. Hundreds of thousands did make that trip and made California the diverse and fantastic state it is, or was? California is the ultimate in the “Nanny States” these days. Capable of fining...
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The Google Maps application just got a major improvement as the tech company just added real-time updates for Metro service alerts. This new feature goes beyond helping users get from point A to point B, it also allows users to find out if there is track work on the red line or if there is any delays on the blue line. What’s more is that Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) will display active alerts that affect a...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has bought WifiSLAM, which is a company providing indoor mobile location services. The service will allow users to find out a location inside a building using the magnitude of its Wi-Fi signals. Indoor mobile location is a mushrooming field as the users are increasingly using their Smartphones within buildings to find out their exact location and also the map of their surroundings. The two Finnish companies, Walkbase and Indoor Atlas offer...
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After the Android chief Andy Rubin stepped aside, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s head of mapping and commerce business Jeff Huber stepped aside in a management shift, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Jeff Huber, who has been with the company for over a decade, will join Google X, the Sergey Brin-led unit which is currently working on Google Glass and automatic car technology. Alan Eustace-led search team will now manage the mapping...
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Imagine my surprise when I woke up one morning on a fjord in Northern Norway. Given that I had gone to asleep in Guatemala, this came as a big surprise to me. Had I been drugged and kidnapped? No. I simply made the mistake of updating my iOS and having Google Maps replaced by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s creation. Thankfully, within three months, in December of 2012, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) released a Google Maps version...
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) released a new update to Google Maps with more detailed maps for North Korea that now shows street names, monuments and prison camps on a formerly black area where no data was previously available beyond the capital city’s name. “This effort has been active in Map Maker for a few years and today the new map of North Korea is ready and now available on Google Maps,” Jayanth Mysore, a senior product...
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