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Streetdirectory.com gets new owner

News JobsDB acquires the Singapore mapping portal, develops new maps and adds recruitment-friendly features.

Friday, August 01 2008 06:26 PM

Tags: Acquisitions, Web sites, Web 2.0, Advertisement, chairman, job applicant, satellite image, financial, job, network

Spending Google's money on conscientious causes

Insight Dr. Larry Brilliant heads the company's efforts to fight global warming and poverty, and aid public health.

Monday, December 03 2007 08:10 PM

Tags: Web 2.0

Google ups ante in mapping rivalry

News Company unveils hybrid mapping site on heels of MSN's Virtual Earth, in heated battle for localized search.

Tuesday, July 26 2005 11:13 AM

Tags: Web sites

MSN to offer local-search service

News Service integrates mapping and satellite images to help consumers pinpoint nearby stores and restaurants.

Tuesday, June 21 2005 10:08 AM

Tags: Service level management

Google, Yahoo offer peek at mapping code

News The two companies hope to encourage developers to create new apps to expand search. Also: Amazon launches mapping service.

Friday, July 01 2005 10:48 AM

Tags: Web sites

Google Earth may catch a break in patent quake

News In initial round of spat over Google Earth, a federal judge seems skeptical of suit against search giant.

Monday, April 03 2006 11:33 AM

Tags: Web sites, Search, Patents

W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0

News Supporters of the Sparql query language say using the Web without it would be like "trying to use a relational database without SQL".

Monday, January 21 2008 09:45 AM

Tags: Web 2.0

Google mapping spec now an industry standard

News KML, a Google language to describe map data, is now an industry standard. Let a thousand online map flowers bloom?

Tuesday, April 15 2008 10:55 AM

Tags: XML

SGI introduces midrange Unix server

News Amid fierce competition in the Unix server market, SGI has released a new 32-processor midrange system that uses the same modular philosophy as the company's top-end system.

Wednesday, October 10 2001 02:45 PM

Konami pulls out of Fallujah video game

News After three weeks of criticism about 'Six Days in Fallujah,' set in 2004 Iraq, Konami now says it won't distribute or sell the video game.

Thursday, April 30 2009 12:07 PM

Tags: Games, Video Game, Training, Video, Sales, Iraq, U.S., blog, spokesman, game

Google adds mapping to local offerings

News Google Maps, Google Local combine enhanced local search with maps, driving directions, business listings and satellite images.

Friday, October 07 2005 10:34 AM

Tags: Web sites, Search, Web services

Google mapping enters the third dimension

News Search giant launches Google Earth, a satellite mapping service that lets people zoom in for 3D views of buildings and terrain.

Wednesday, June 29 2005 10:08 AM

Tags: Personal applications, Web sites

Google: No such thing as complete privacy

News The company takes issue with a Pittsburgh couple's lawsuit that alleges Google's Street View service invaded their privacy.

Thursday, July 31 2008 07:53 AM

Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web 2.0, Satellite, Google Inc., Privacy, phone, photograph, News.com, Internet

Google: Mobile operators want to block our apps

News Search giant's senior executive criticizes mobile phone operators for trying to prevent their users from accessing Internet applications.

Monday, November 27 2006 09:22 AM

Tags: Browser, Business applications

Google finds no privacy on private roads

News Residents in Northern California complain that drivers hired to collect Google's Street View images are disregarding private property signs and driving up private roads.

Monday, August 25 2008 10:46 AM

Tags: Legal, Privacy, Google Inc., Privacy, Vint Cerf, photograph, Internet, blog, California, spokesman