Waze, which currently boasts nearly 50 million users, offers map and traffic data services using satellite signals sent from smartphones. Google has reached an agreement to buy navigation app maker Waze in a deal believed to be valued upwards of $1...
Thanks to the Apple Maps app's lack of accuracy, shoddy satellite images and potentially life-threatening direction giving skills, Apple was forced to apologise for replacing Google Maps in IOS 6. Google dealt another blow to Apple today...
We invested hundred of millions of dollars in satellite work, airplane work, drive-by work, and we think we have the best product in the industry. The ongoing battle between Apple and Google for supremacy in the mobile market is the "defining fight...
Now we work with our satellite imagery providers, local organizations and other external data providers to help them embrace open standards such as a standard called the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).
It includes satellite and flyover imagery among other things. As hotly anticipated, earlier this week Apple pulled the curtain back on the iPhone 5. It also gave a closer look at the previously announced iOS6 operating system that will run the...
The [satellite] and cable operators have excess unsold inventory so it was partially an experiment," said Derek Baine, senior analyst at SNL Kagan. Google tried to convince cable and satellite operators to license their set-top box data so it could...
On Tuesday, Microsoftt added a massive 165TB of new imagery to its Bing Maps service, which it said was "the largest satellite release to date", Bing said in a blog post. As part of Microsoft's partnership with Nokia, Bing has added thousands of...
Lat/Long (latitude/longitude), or GPS as it’s often termed, relies on the device to pick up signals from the orbiting Global Positioning System satellite network. A number of new terms have come to the marketplace since mobile’s explosion, such as...
He is a former Sirius Satellite Radio drive time show and TV host. YouTube Mobile gets more than 600 million views a day, making m.youtube.com the #2 video-viewing website in the world – right after YouTube itself.
Our users have already appreciated high-quality detailed maps of Russia, Ukraine with the search function and other useful features such as routing, traffic information, satellite images and panoramic views.
WIDECAST (the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network) has tagged Jklynn with a satellite trasmitted and is now tracking and her as she moves from beach to beach. Through the use of the Google Earth API technology and a grant given to the...
They then helped spread word about the difficulties the areas faced by providing updated satellite imagery of the Tsunami's damage and custom Google Maps for the affected areas. Google has released a compilation of StreetView images that cover 44...
Control and watch your home TV (cable, satellite, or DVR) from anywhere over the Internet with this simple piece of hardware that connects to your home media system. Smartphone Touchscreen Gloves on Amazon.com
Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami (New York Times) The most shared article of the year wasn’t really an article at all, but a series of sliding before-and-after satellite pictures of the devastation caused by the...
The pilot, slated to launch in early 2012, would pit them directly against current cable, satellite, and telecom giants Time Warner Cable Inc.and DirecTV, among others. Comcast and other cable/satellite companies aren’t sitting idly by as Google...
Google is also using a couple of sitelinks to send searchers to the NOAA Satellite page and the Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook (though the second sitelink with an incomplete page title of “Graphical Tropical Weather …” and the snippet text of...
There is still a lot of opportunity in the industry as consumers are gradually shifting their viewing habits from terrestrial, satellite and cable transmission to online video. Yesterday we reported that AOL leapt 5 spots to be the number 2 online...
Google has been working with their satellite imagery provider, GeoEye, to obtain new images of the areas most affected. The awe of the devastation of the Japan earthquake and tsunami has been the subject of many searches over the past week.
The not-so-stylish, white buttons for selecting Map or Satellite view as well as the drop-list for toggling photos, buzz updates and other geo-taggable features seems to be going away. They are calling it the widget and it replaces the ugly white...
They are calling it the widget and it replaces the ugly white buttons that used to allow you to toggle between map and satellite views. After week of experimenting with a new interface, Google Maps has officially announced its release into the wild.
