Google Maps opened a virtual path to the wonders of the Grand Canyon on Thursday by adding panoramic images gathered by hikers with Android-powered camera systems strapped to their backs. “These beautiful, interactive images cover more than 75 miles (120 kilometers) of trails and surrounding…
How Google’s Maps App for iPhone Hurts Nokia
Apple isn’t the only company that should feel nervous about Google’s release of a new maps app for the iPhone. Nokia may have lost its chance to get millions of iPhone owners hooked on its mapping service. … Read More
Pogue: Maps App for iPhone Steers Right
David Pogue reviews Google Maps for the iPhone and says: “It’s free, fast and fantastic.” … Read More
Riddle of missing Pacific island solved: researcher
A New Zealand researcher claimed to have solved the riddle of a mystery South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps which does not exist, blaming a whaling ship from 1876. The phantom landmass in the Coral Sea is shown as Sandy Island on Google Earth and Google maps and is supposedly…
Yandex and Russia’s MTS to rival Google and Apple
Russia’s search engine Yandex and major telecom company MTS are teaming up to create their first smartphone complete with its own operating platform, as a rival to Google and Apple in their home market.
The new device will run the Yandex.Shell system, which consists of the search engine, a new browser and the Shell 3D user interface. It also supports a group of apps such as Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Maps which can be preloaded on handsets. The company has also launched its Yandex.Store for Android apps, and is calling for developers to submit products. It will also integrate Kaspersky malware detection.
“The company can now offer an alternative package of mobile solutions to any OEM around the world who would like to build their own Android-based smartphone or tablet,” Yandex said in a recent statement.
The MTS and Yandex co-branded smart phone has a price tag of $240 and comes with one month free internet access and 2,500 bonus points in the operator’s loyalty scheme.
Yandex has made major steps to increase its role in the Russian smartphone market to become the “Russian Google”. The company has struck a local deal with Apple, which will use Yandex maps instead of Google Maps on its own platform. It also has contracts with two of Russia’s big three mobile operators, MTS and MegaFon mainly focused on their own-label Android devices.
An Update for the Corporate Help Desk
We are all nodes in the network now, but who says that is so bad? BMC has remade the front end of its corporate computing help desk system. With its new product, MyIT, people can automatically supply their cellphones and tablets with corporate software or find the nearest corporate printer, anywhere in the world. … Read More
Google maps drawn into South Korea-Japan island dispute
South Korea on Thursday lashed out at Google for changing the name of an isolated set of islands at the centre of a territorial dispute with Japan on its English-language web mapping service. The protest came as Seoul and Tokyo are locked in a propaganda war to publicise their respective claims to…
