Google Maps is opening a virtual path to the Grand Canyon's wonders by adding panoramic images gathered by hikers with Android-powered camera systems strapped to their backs. "These beautiful, interactive images cover more than 75 ...
Tags: Google, virtual path, Grand Canyon
Google has published detailed maps of North Korea, based on information entered by users via its online Map Maker tool. The maps now include details about the ultra-secretive nation including highways and smaller roads, country borders, ...
Tags: Google, Detailed Maps, North Korea
Google Maps slipped last year, giving Facebook enough room to become the most popular mobile app in the U.S., according to ComScore. Facebook's mobile app had nearly 85.5 million unique visitors in December, while the Google Maps app had ...
Tags: Google Maps, mobile app, ComScore
Researchers from Boston University have invented a unique way of using LED lights to transmit location information to mobile devices within buildings. Researchers Dan Ryan and Aaron Ganick’s start-up, ByteLight, is based entirely ...
Tags: Boston University, LED lights, location information, mobile devices
We explain how to get there, the changes for 2013 as well as listing the nearby hotels, and more importantly, bars. How to get there The 2013 Toy Fair takes place at the London Olympia’s Grand Hall from Tuesday, January 22nd to ...
Tags: Toy Fair, Travel Accommodation, Eat
If users take to Facebook's new search tool, the social network could be in line to haul in a whole lot of advertising dollars, say industry analysts. Earlier this week, the company announced Graph Search, a tool designed to enable users ...
Tags: social network, Facebook, Graph Search
MagicGPS LLC introduces a new GPS Tracking Service with No Monthly Fees. MagicGPS is designed to help reduce transportation GPS tracking costs by as much as 80% by leveraging Wi-Fi Hot Spots. MagicGPS records tracking information by ...
IDG News Service - Ericsson has agreed to transfer 1,922 patents and 263 patent applications to Unwired Planet in return for a share in ongoing revenue from the patents. The transfer includes 753 U.S. patents related to 2G, 3G and LTE ...
Tags: Ericsson, Unwired Planet, patents
Apple has allegedly cut its orders by roughly half in response to lower than expected sales of the iPhone 5 this quarter. Japanese business news network Nikkei has reported that Apple has asked Japan Display, Sharp and LG Display to ...
E FUN, a consumer electronics designer and marketer of fun, easy-to-use lifestyle products, has chosen the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show to unveil the first model in its newest line of Nextbook Android Tablets, the Google ...
Tags: E FUN, Nextbook, Android Tablets, 2013, CES
Since Apple launched Siri, iPhone's exclusive voice-activated assistant, in 2010, no other smart phone has come close to the iPhone in understanding and executing complex voice commands. But my informal look at two Android-based voice ...
Tags: Apple, voice activated assistant, Voice Assistants, iPhone
Google announced that Google Maps for iPhone is here—rolling out across the world in the Apple App Store.It's designed from the ground up to combine the comprehensiveness and accuracy of Google Maps with an interface that makes ...
Tags: Google Maps, available for iPhone, comprehensiveness and accuracy
A few months back, Apple dropped Google Maps from its iOS operating system in favor of its own Maps app—but now, Google Maps is back as a free download in the App Store. After using both Apple Maps and Google Maps on my iPhone 5 for a ...
Tags: Apple, Google Maps, iOS operating system, Maps app
Kia Motors America announced it will work with Google to provide content and search-based solutions enabled by Application Program Interfaces (APIs) for the second-generation of the automaker's innovative UVO eServices telematics system. ...
Tags: Kia Motors, Google Maps, Car Connectivity, navigation solutions
The Google Maps app isn't the only new Google app for users of Apple mobile devices. There's also a new, free Gmail app that provides users with a clearer presentation and additional controls, compared with the iOS e-mail app. ...
Tags: Google Maps, Google app, Apple mobile devices, Gmail, iOS