In an effort to beat Google at mapping, Microsoft Bing will use crowd-sourced photos to create a 3-D virtual worlds in its Maps application, the company has told FastCompany.com. The 3-D models will eventually be knitted into Bing ...READ»
We reported yesterday that Google may upset the entire GPS market. Hours later, they did. Personal navigation stocks went into freefall yesterday after Google announced it would bring turn-by-turn navigation to its mobile Google Maps ...READ»
Earlier we reported that Google was abandoning Tele-Atlas to begin collecting its own mapping data. Now Forbes is reporting that personal navigation companies are afraid that Google will begin making its own PND software, undercutting ...READ»
Processing billions of queries a day almost guarantees that Google will get some mutations now and then. Today, TechRadar discussed some of the quiddities of Google's Suggest function, but the "WTF, Google?" meme goes much deeper. ...READ»
Yesterday the Web caught wind that Apple had bought mapping software startup Placebase in July. Several recent patents filed by Cupertino suggest that the iPhone maker is interested in personal navigation. What do they have planned? ...READ»
The one-time Google advertising honcho has been at the helm of AOL for 100 days. What's he done, what's next, and can he save the online giant from irrelevance?READ»
Next Friday marks the official launch of Open Green Map, a series of interactive Google maps that chart natural, cultural, and green living sites around the world. The maps are already available in preview mode, with 4,000 sites and ...READ»
That's not a title I toss out lightly, but Glympse deserves it. Since smartphones first made Google maps mobile, no single application has offered so much practical functionality. Not only that--Glympse might be the only one that ...READ»
Bold new concepts in mapping don't come along often, but London-based graphic designers Jack Schulze and Matt Webb may have invented one, with the "Here and There" map, which blends both a 3-D, first-person view and a bird's-eye view.READ»
The folks at Google Maps decided it'd be fun if they added a historical map of Tokyo onto the site's existing map and satellite layers. They were wrong.
The centuries-old woodblock maps, which are already available online, show ...READ»
Plenty of people have been wondering about which company might come along and dethrone Facebook. What if the answer is so obvious that you wouldn't notice until all the pieces came together?READ»
Apple's iPhone GPS is a fabulously useful tool: Personally I've used it when lost in the city a few dozen times. But Apple's retaining a tight grip on both its own software and third party applications that use GPS functionality. The iPhone ...READ»
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Adding to its already-formidable AdSense product-line this week, Google [GOOG] announced AdSense for online Flash games. Comscore says that up to 25% of Web surfers worldwide play these games, so Google might be tapping a sizable ...READ»
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