Google Earth for Android 1.1 Gets Ocean Views
Google added ocean views to Google Earth for Android 1.1, a move that should have greater import when tablet computers based on Android become the rule rather than the exception.
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August 30, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010 12:08 PM/EST
April 8, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:41 AM/EST
Google the Oceans by Default with Google Earth
Google has made Ocean in Google Earth part of the default set of annotations for all Google Earth users to see ahead of Earth Day April 22. Google continues to organize the world's information online, and in this particular case you can see the company's liberal, conservationist politics shining through.
July 20, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009 1:52 PM/EST
Google Celebrates Apollo 11 Anniversary with Moon in Google Earth
Google's overriding mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. With new projects like Moon in Google Earth, it's clear Google wants to organize the universe's information make it accessible to our world.
January 22, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:07 AM/EST
Google-Powered Nycgo.com Site Is Great Lesson in Interactive Web Maps
Google and New York City have partnered on a new local information Web site, a what's happening hub for tourists and adventurous locals to find hotels, restaurants, stores, theater and other stuff in the city's five boroughs. Are those table computers Windows Surface platforms? I know Google doesn't make those yet ... or does it?
April 13, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007 2:59 PM/EST
Google Earth adds hiking trails
Maps wasn't the only piece of Google software to get an update recently. The G Poppa has also added hiking trails to Google Earth.The new layer, sponsored by Trimble Outdoors Trips, features GPS-marked trails for hiking, biking, backpacking and running,...
January 29, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007 9:25 AM/EST
Google Maps Are Inconsistently Edited
Much ado about maps this weekend: Another thread on Slashdot discusses how some potentially sensitive areas, like this nuclear facility in Boston, are blurred out on Google Maps. The concern over Google censorship comes after the Telegraph reported earlier this...
November 13, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006 10:44 AM/EST
Images of Google Earth's New Historical Maps
Google released an update to Google Earth recently (build 4.0.2416 (beta)), and it contains a bevy of historical maps.
October 31, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:34 AM/EST
Google Earth: Photos of Google's New Central Park Penthouse
One of the Google co-founders recently bought space in the tower section of 15 Central Park West, a yet-to-be-completed behemoth in Manhattan that also houses Denzel Washington, Sting, and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb.
October 11, 2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:10 PM/EST
Google Earth: Images from Today's Manhattan Plane Crash
A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building in Manhattan today, according to several news reports and the view out my window.
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