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Google’s StreetView technology, which is embedded into the Google Maps product on the browser, and on mobile phones like the
iPhone and Android, has long wowed users with its option to view the road inside a 360-degree panorama. But Microsoft Research’s latest effort, which is being unveiled at this week’s Siggraph computer graphics conference, approaches viewing [...]

Business-ratings app Yelp just got a massive dose of competition from a much larger source.
Google updated its Maps for Android (version 4.4) on Monday in the Android Market to make its Place Pages business listings more usable. In doing so, Google’s solution for taking business listings mobile resembles Yelp’s Android feature set more than it [...]

YouTube has long been more than just a place for leave Britney alone videos and the occasional piece of pirated content, it’s also become a place for legitimate movie trailers and rentals, TV shows, and music videos. The latter of which has been under the onus of the content providers and users to curate.

However, that’s [...]

The camera of a street-view car, used to photograph whole streets for Google maps. US state attorneys pressed Google to name workers who wrote the “snooping” code that captured personal data from wireless networks while Street View cars mapped streets.

US state attorneys pressed Google to name workers who wrote the “snooping” code that captured personal [...]

If you own an Android phone, you already know how to use Vlingo’s SuperDialer, a beta feature that expands the app’s vocally triggered “call” command to search not just your personal phone book, but also a wider directory of businesses.
Tap Vlingo’s home screen widget and speak out the name of the business or category [...]

There’s a reason Google can shut down its Street View
cars and still maintain a quality geolocation service on mobile devices: it’s crowdsourcing the data.
Mobile-phone and some laptop users who use Google applications to get a fix on their position or share their location with friends are helping Google build out a database of Wi-Fi [...]

The latest changes to the MapQuest site are designed for travelers who believe a trip is as much about the journey as it is about the destination.
The mapping and direction service launched a host of new options on Tuesday that the company hopes will make its site more intutive and help people plan and discover [...]

This website image provided by MaqQuest shows the current look the company’s home page MapQuest is testing a cleaner, simpler look with features that it hopes makes it easier for visitors to plan a road trip, from getting directions to figuring out where to stop along the way. (AP Photo/MapQuest)

(AP) — MapQuest was long the [...]

Apple may be about to get roped into the privacy policy debate that has dogged other technology companies like Facebook and Google over the past few months. On Monday Apple quietly changed its privacy policy as part of the iOS 4 update to allow the company to collect and share your Apple device’s location [...]

Wi-Fi traffic intercepted by Google’s Street View cars included passwords and email, according to the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL).
CNIL launched an investigation last month into Google’s recording of traffic carried over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, and has begun examining the data Google handed over as part of that [...]