Mercedes-Benz showed off its next infotainment advancement in the form of mBrace2, a combination of telematics and infotainment, all powered by an embedded 3G modem. If you can make it through the video after the break , you’ll see the new Facebook, Google POI and Street View integration, along with the updated browsing experience. Unfortunately, the data connection on the floor made for a sputtery, jilted experience
Mercedes-Benz showed off its next infotainment advancement in the form of mBrace2, a combination of telematics and infotainment, all powered by an embedded 3G modem. If you can make it through the video after the break , you’ll see the new Facebook, Google POI and Street View integration, along with the updated browsing experience. Unfortunately, the data connection on the floor made for a sputtery, jilted experience
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Hands-on with Mercedes-Benz mBrace2
Google has placed views of earthquake and tsunami damage in its maps of Japan. You’ll see the idyllic countryside change dramatically, becoming cluttered with mountains of rubble and debris as you get closer to the ocean, says one of the Google executives managing the project.
Google has placed views of earthquake and tsunami damage in its maps of Japan. You’ll see the idyllic countryside change dramatically, becoming cluttered with mountains of rubble and debris as you get closer to the ocean, says one of the Google executives managing the project.
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Walk Through Earthquake Rubble Online
Were you worried that Google’s Street View snowmobile was put out to pasture after 2010′s Winter Olympics? Relax you worrywart, as Mountain View’s resurrected the snow-trottin’ beast, only to unleash it upon the slopes of an additional four alpine locales. Joining existing (and updated) imagery from Vancouver’s Whistler resort, 2011′s additions stayed stateside, testing out the snow in Squaw Valley, Breckenridge, Deer Valley and Crystal Mountain
Were you worried that Google’s Street View snowmobile was put out to pasture after 2010′s Winter Olympics? Relax you worrywart, as Mountain View’s resurrected the snow-trottin’ beast, only to unleash it upon the slopes of an additional four alpine locales. Joining existing (and updated) imagery from Vancouver’s Whistler resort, 2011′s additions stayed stateside, testing out the snow in Squaw Valley, Breckenridge, Deer Valley and Crystal Mountain
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Google’s Street View hits the slopes again, stops for hot cocoa in Squaw and Whistler (video)
If being able to see the Colosseum of Rome or trek around Stonehenge from the comfort of your La-Z-boy is your cup of tea, Google has another living room adventure for you. Pretty soon, you’ll be able to keep dry on the sofa while floating down Brazil’s Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers via Street View
If being able to see the Colosseum of Rome or trek around Stonehenge from the comfort of your La-Z-boy is your cup of tea, Google has another living room adventure for you. Pretty soon, you’ll be able to keep dry on the sofa while floating down Brazil’s Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers via Street View
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Google Street View heads to the Amazon, enables virtual river excursions
Some people fret that Google is growing far too nosy, in light of the search engine maven’s buyout of face recognition specialist PittPatt, its insistence on “real names” in Google Plus, and its disclosure of the locations of notebook PCs and cell phones worldwide in ‘Street View’.
Some people fret that Google is growing far too nosy, in light of the search engine maven’s buyout of face recognition specialist PittPatt, its insistence on “real names” in Google Plus, and its disclosure of the locations of notebook PCs and cell phones worldwide in ‘Street View’.
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Is Google Peeping into Too Many Places?
Google’s Maps and Earth services provide us with 3D maps , the means to track St. Nick , and even tools to help us train to wear the maillot jaune
Google’s Maps and Earth services provide us with 3D maps , the means to track St. Nick , and even tools to help us train to wear the maillot jaune
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USC computer scientist makes geo-immersion maps, leaves other maps feeling inferior
WiFi-sniffing — all the major tech giant’s are doing it. But it’s for your own better-targeted, location-based good…
WiFi-sniffing — all the major tech giant’s are doing it. But it’s for your own better-targeted, location-based good…
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Microsoft offers up ‘managed driving’ source code, gets back to location-based business
TomTom’s already seen Google muscle in on its turf in a big way, and it looks like it might now be trying to return the favor. If camera-toting vans like the one above are any indication, it would appear that the company is currently working to bolster its navigation options with its own Street View -like service
TomTom’s already seen Google muscle in on its turf in a big way, and it looks like it might now be trying to return the favor. If camera-toting vans like the one above are any indication, it would appear that the company is currently working to bolster its navigation options with its own Street View -like service
Beside a fairytale doodle, Google has added a royal wedding easter egg its Street View package for central London addresses – for one day only What?! No Google Doodle? Don’t be silly – of course there is. Google’s Doodle this Friday morning is a cartoon picture of Westminster Abbey, rendered in the happily-ever-after style that may be familiar from fairytales everywhere
Beside a fairytale doodle, Google has added a royal wedding easter egg its Street View package for central London addresses – for one day only What?! No Google Doodle? Don’t be silly – of course there is. Google’s Doodle this Friday morning is a cartoon picture of Westminster Abbey, rendered in the happily-ever-after style that may be familiar from fairytales everywhere
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Google catches royal wedding fever
After the iPhone and Android tracking revelations of last week, a researcher finds out how to query Google’s database of home and business router locations Google really does have a very big location map – and that may include where your router is. The results of its giant Street View exercise in which it took pictures of houses and shops but also gathered locations of Wi-Fi networks and – oops! – collected data from open Wi-Fi networks has all been collated. And what’s more, you can query it yourself.
After the iPhone and Android tracking revelations of last week, a researcher finds out how to query Google’s database of home and business router locations Google really does have a very big location map – and that may include where your router is. The results of its giant Street View exercise in which it took pictures of houses and shops but also gathered locations of Wi-Fi networks and – oops! – collected data from open Wi-Fi networks has all been collated. And what’s more, you can query it yourself.
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Oh, and Google probably also knows where your Wi-Fi router lives
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