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How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News In the window, people can exchange real-time IM, photos, videos, maps and documents. It may have only been launched a few months ago but Google's Wave collaboration platform is already attracting attention from... [28 Oct 2009]
Google: Apple rejected Google Voice for iPhone
News In its letter to the FCC, Google also says Apple rejected the iPhone native version of Google Latitude for potentially causing confusion with the built-in Maps application that ships with every iPhone. [21 Sep 2009]
Will software be Motorola's saviour?
News It invites comparisons to Palm's WebOS and Synergy software, with users selecting different widgets from a home page to rotate in and out of Facebook, Google Maps, email, or voicemail. Motorola, the iconic mobile phone... [15 Sep 2009]
Motorola joins the Android Cliq with T-Mobile device
News The phone will run Android 1.5 Cupcake and offer access to Google's various services, including Google Maps with Street View, Google Voice Search, Picasa, and GTalk. On Thursday morning, Motorola officially introduced... [11 Sep 2009]
Firefox for phones: Alpha 3 lands on Windows Mobile
News This is the same type of technology used in Google Maps. On Friday, Mozilla released Fennec Alpha 3 for Windows Mobile, the latest in Mozilla's effort to put its Firefox browser on a mobile phone. As with Fennec 1.0 beta... [07 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News Recently it has been trying to diversify its business by offering its phone users online services, such as music downloads, games, and maps. What makes Nokia's netbook different from others in the category is that the... [03 Sep 2009]
Is Facebook's FriendFeed acquistion all about talent?
News Facebook acquired it for its talent; prior to FriendFeed, Taylor was part of the team that helped launch Google Maps. Surprise! Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a social network feed aggregation start-up. [11 Aug 2009]
Apple loses Google boss as Schmidt steps down from board
News More recently, potential competitive turf became evident when Google's third-party applications for the iPhone - which comes preinstalled with Google Maps - started to get well-publicised scrutiny from Apple. [04 Aug 2009]
Apple puts Google on a leash over Latitude for iPhone
News After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles. [27 Jul 2009]
BBC's iPlayer is mobile's most wanted
News Navigation/maps and unlimited music are the next most desired mobile services after iPlayer, according to the analyst's report, with around a fifth (19 per cent) of the vote each. Auntie's iPlayer is the most desired... [13 Jul 2009]
'RFID in all new mobiles by next summer'
News Another example of leveraging location data is to create real-time road traffic maps generated by analysing the speed of mobile phone base station hand-off to ascertain how fast cars are travelling on roads. [24 Jun 2009]
Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
News The challenge produced popular sites, including one that displays maps of schools alongside information such as catchment areas and Ofsted results. Radical public sector spending cuts could spur government into... [11 Jun 2009]
$99 iPhone announced at Apple's WWDC
News Users with the 3G S will get additional features in the Google Maps application that show which direction they're facing. Included was a new version of the iPhone called the iPhone 3G S. The 3G S sports a faster... [09 Jun 2009]
Google gives SMEs a better slice of local search
News Google is giving local merchants the ability to access data about how web surfers arrive at a local listing in Google Maps, in hopes of figuring out why so many people in a particular neighbourhood are searching for pizza. [02 Jun 2009]
Bing: Now you can try Microsoft's search
News Virtual Earth gets a name change and is now Bing Maps for Enterprise. Microsoft's Bing search engine has started to become publicly available, allowing the world to decide whether the company's latest effort has the... [02 Jun 2009]