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Where 2.0: Google Launches Streetside View with Tech from ImmersiveMedia — This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition. Its a street-view, that in certain cities, will let you get a street side view of the area you are currently in. This is not just a static, A9-style image.
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Media Alert: New York, New York, in 3-D — Seeing Is Believing — Live Search Maps launches photo-realistic 3-D imagery of New York City, several other cities. — Have you always wanted to visit New York City, but never had the chance to make it happen? Have you lived in the city for years …
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Google Maps takes it to the streets — update SAN JOSE, Calif.—Google launched a new feature on its mapping service on Tuesday that allows people to see panoramic views of streets and buildings. — Google Maps now offers a 360-degree view of many streets in the San Francisco Bay Area …
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Introducing... Street View! — Here on the Google Maps team we constantly strive to make high-quality imagery of the world available to our users. Why? We know that providing rich, detailed maps better enables you to understand the world's geographic information.
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Google Maps Street View and Mapplets — The previous rumors are coming true: announced at today's Where 2.0 conference, Google has added a feature called "Street View" in certain locations on Google Maps. Also, Google is adding developer-created gadgets callled "Mapplets" to Google Maps starting today.
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O'Reilly Where 2.0 [Part 2]: Google Maps launches Street View — As predicted by many, Street View made its appearance in Google Maps this morning. — Round-up of what can be found at this hour: — This file seems to indicate that 5 cities are available: Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
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Google buys anti-malware browser virtualization startup — Google has quietly made its first anti-malware acquisition, snapping up GreenBorder Technologies, a venture-backed company that sells browser virtualization security software. — The acquisition gives the search engine a key piece …
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The decline of news — The Chronicle's announcement earlier this month that 100 newsroom jobs will be slashed in the coming weeks in the face of mounting financial woes represents just the latest chapter in a tragic story of traditional journalism's decline.
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mathewingram.com/work, Epicenter, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Scripting News and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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Trick Or Treat?: Top Secret Microsoft Product To Launch At Midnight — 1,805 Views — I'm told that tonight, at 12:01am EST (okay, so tomorrow), the division of Microsoft that launched the Xbox and the Zune will unveil something very special . What it is, we do not know for sure …
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A Cell Phone for Baby Boomers — How Jitterbug designed a mobile phone and service to appeal to even the most technophobic seniors — Selling technology to technophobes may not seem like smartest business strategy, but when the technophobes in question are the 100 million baby boomers …
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Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone? — It's show time for Microsoft's "Milan" multi-touch and gestural interface technology. And I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decides to make this week's Wall Street Journal tech conference the debutante ball.
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Tux the penguin waddles to last place in Indy 500; Joost fares better — When the pale blue "Linux car," also known as car #77 from Chastain Motorsports, was the first car to crash in the 91st Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, we can imagine hordes of geeks wishing it had been a "Vista car" instead.
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Microsoft's Zune: Still Shy of 1 Million Sales — The San Francisco Chronicle generated a lot of buzz for Microsoft (MSFT) yesterday by printing a claim that the software giant had already sold more than a million Zunes — which would put it ahead of the goal the company set for itself shortly …
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More Bandwidth Than You Can Use? — Companies such as Verizon are starting to offer Internet connection speeds that are 5 to 30 times faster than standard cable or DSL lines — From the moment the first phone-line modems squawked to life, connecting consumers to early Internet service providers …
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Where 2.0 Launchpad — At Where 2.0 Ignite and Launchpad, 18 presentations where held over 2 hours, 6 launches and 12 Ignite talks, covering various aspect of the geo world. As a quick overview it gives a good sense of the energy that is showing here at Where 2.0.
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VeriSign Board of Directors Elects William A. Roper, Jr. as Chief Executive Officer and Edward A. Mueller as Chairman — Principal Operations Continue to Report to Executive Vice Presidents Mark McLaughlin, John Donovan, Aristotle Balogh and Bob Korzeniewski
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