French court fines Google France 500,000 euros for gratis Maps
A Parisian commercial court has upheld a lower court’s ruling against Google France, ordering the company to pay a fine of €500,000 for giving away its maps services .
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eye3 hexicopter helps your DSLR take flight for $999
Your camera wants to take flight — trust us, it does — and an ambitious new project aims to make your DSLR’s aeronautic ambitions a reality. The eye3 hexacopter is a six-armed carbon-fiber unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) that hopes to make aerial photography accessible to the masses.
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Google outs new tilt and roll Maps game, promotes Google+
If you weren’t in the know on Google Earth’s flight simulator easter egg, rest assured that Google’s next map-centric game will be entirely public.
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Update to Google Maps improves battery life, public transit options and more
A new version of Google Maps has hit the Android Market today, which simultaneously brings fresher location tracking within Latitude and better battery life — two welcome improvements that seem contrary to one another. There’s also a couple goodies included for the transit-minded folks, as Navigation has been updated to better estimate location when GPS signal is lost, and the number of route options for public transit users has been increased from three to four. Sure, the changes are rather incremental, but who’s honestly going to argue with greater battery life?
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Pastmapper looks to take Google Maps back in time
There’s not exactly a ton to see there just yet, but a new website called Pastmapper has some pretty ambitious plans, and it’s off to a fairly decent start. With a little help from the Google Maps API , it’s aiming to provide maps of cities as they were in the past, complete with local business information, accurate streets, and even changes to things like hills and coastline. To kick things off, site founder Brad Thompson has debuted version 0.1 of the site with map of San Francisco as it was in 1853, including information from the A.W
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Google streamlines Map Maker, wants you to start crafting your own (video)
Despite Google’s best efforts to continually roll out new features and updates , it can’t add everything . This is where last April’s Map Maker comes in and it’s been given a design refresh in line with the rest of Google’s portfolio.
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Google Maps Android app update gentrifies Places, Live Events forces Twitter out
Android’s Google Maps has been given an extra nudge, reaching the dizzying heights of five-point-twelve-point-oh. So what’s changed? Well, for starters, the ability to post to Twitter has been nixed from the Places pages, replaced by the natty ability to see what’s going on in places nearby. Giving it a try in London, it’s got a pretty broad remit, and covers live music, plays and even museum exhibitions. The feature is currently limited to the British capital, Paris, Zurich, New York and San Francisco, but then, they’re the centers of the universe, right? You can pick up the 6MB update — and some culture — at the source link below.
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Four out of ten Androids prefer the taste of Gingerbread
Another month, another land-grab by Android’s now-dominant Gingerbread iteration. The last smartphone-only version now lays claim to 44.4 percent of all Android phones. We’d put this down to continued efforts by the major phone manufacturers to deliver version 2.3 on their new phones, and not the often haphazard attempts at upgrading existing devices. Froyo, which took nine months to grab a majority share, still claws onto a 40.7 percent share, while Honeycomb on tablets (not included above) scrapes together just under two percent of the Android ecosystem. Hopefully ICS will bring harmony to all Google-powered devices, but it’ll be a challenge to best version 2.x’s high watermark — it once captured 83 percent of everything Android.
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Google Street View walks through parks, so you don’t have to
Need to take a walk through the park, but hate all of the fresh air, foliage and sunshine that comes with it? Good news: Google has added a number of parks to Street View, including New York City’s High Line, elevated train tracks that have been converted into a 1.5 mile plant-filled walkway. Also on the list are the statue-filled Kensington Gardens in London and Tokyo’s cherry blossom-lined Koganei Park. The parks and their blurry-faced visitors can be easily accessed in the source link below. There’s also a video of the High Line project after the break.
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Google Street View walks through parks, so you don’t have to
Need to take a walk through the park, but hate all of the fresh air, foliage and sunshine that comes with it? Good news: Google has added a number of parks to Street View, including New York City’s High Line, elevated train tracks that have been converted into a 1.5 mile plant-filled walkway. Also on the list are the statue-filled Kensington Gardens in London and Tokyo’s cherry blossom-lined Koganei Park. The parks and their blurry-faced visitors can be easily accessed in the source link below. There’s also a video of the High Line project after the break.
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