Google Maps North Korea
Details of cities and even prison camps in North Korea became more visible on Tuesday when Google updated its Google Maps application to include information citizen cartographers have been providing it about the country through a crowdsourcing development program called Map Maker. Read more…
Good work, Google. The more this info is out there, the more people will pay attention to this issue.
What happens when an augmented-reality geek runs into Sergey Brin on the subway wearing Google Goggles? A total freak-out.
The winner of our competition to find the best print ad is … Google.
This ad was picked as the best of the bunch, and Google will win $1 million in print advertising in USA TODAY.
Google told the New York Times that it would give that ad space to “people who need it.”
More on the contest from the New York Times: http://nyti.ms/VKcP0w
Novel, effective, and makes you want to use Google+. Rad.
Over the past six months, Google has begun to systematically replace core, Apple-made iOS apps with Google-made iOS apps. In July, Google launched Chrome for iPhone – a Safari replacement. Then, in October came Google Search – which included a voice search feature to compete with Siri. In December, Google launched Google Maps to replace Apple Maps, and a much-improved Gmail to replace Apple’s core Mail app. It also put out a new YouTube app, to replace the one that Apple removed during its last iOS upgrade.
In a way, Apple shot itself in the foot because, by dropping Google’s apps, they effectively allowed Google to prove is better at iOS app development than they are. (Barring the Gmail app, but that’s a different story.)
Expect iOS7 to have an updated design philosophy, because it’s beginning to feel dated now that developers are increasingly outpacing Apple itself at app design.
Tumblr’s back up and Google Maps for iOS is out. Looks like your night just got slightly more exciting. (Though the new phoenix-like Flickr app should keep you busy, too.)
This is exactly why it’s so hard to disrupt the industry perhaps most in need of disruption. I still think wireless options will ultimately be more viable, and the way this happens. And make no mistake, it will happen.
You know, if Google and Apple were still friends, they could combine their giant coffers and make it happen—and reap the rewards. Unfortunately, pipe dreams don’t happen.
Yes it’s here, a list of the most expensive keywords in Google. This is only a partial list, but you can check out the full list here.
There’s good money in asbestos.
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Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
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Growing Family: Even though today’s Android event was cancelled, Google went forward with product announcements for the LG Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 tablet via the company’s blog this afternoon. The company also revealed an upated 32GB Nexus 7, the 32GB Nexus 7 with mobile data, and Android 4.2 in the post. source
Google hits the Grand Canyon: Google’s Street View is hitting the trails of the Grand Canyon. A car can’t fit down those tiny trails, though, so Google came up with backpack-mounted cameras. ”Any of these sort of iconic, cultural, historical locations that are not accessible by road is where we want to go,” said Ryan Falor, product manager at Google. source
Oops! Google hit “send” a little too early yesterday, causing a massive market blunder.
In a matter of minutes, the search-engine giant shed almost $20 billion in market value when R.R. Donnelley & Sons, the company in charge of its financial filing, published Google’s disappointing earnings report hours ahead of schedule.
The announcement would have weighed on the stock anyway, but releasing the news when markets were open spurred a frenzy of bearish trading. Stock market operators have built-in circuit breakers for shares that swing wildly, but Google reportedly requested that Nasdaq freeze its shares, which the platform did briefly.
“(Google) doing a Felix Baumgartner,” tweeted Joe Donohue, a professional investor using the handle @UpsideTrader.
The precision and care that must go into protecting a publicly traded company’s market value is nothing short of amazing, and not just because of the competition — as some poor folks at Google are now reflecting on, one mistake can cause a big hurt.
According to a very trusted source, Apple Store employees who have been tasked with improving Apple’s new mapping service are using Bing Maps to correct reported address errors in Apple Maps. According to my source:
When someone has reported an [address-related] problem, they look up the real address on Bing (via an embedded map on the page) and then correct the location.
Using a different service to fix the problem is not surprising, but skipping over Google, the clear industry leader in mapping, due to their disdain for the company, is the same issue that got them into this mess in the first place. Remember, Apple had a year left on its Google Maps/iOS contract.
In which Apple relies on third-hand mapping information.
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