Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 30 at 9:03 am PT
The souped-up shoes are aimed at caretakers who need to monitor people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. However, they raise some technical — and legal — questions.
Tricia Duryee in Mobile on November 29, 2011 at 9:35 am PT
No more walking in circles to find the mall’s bathroom, or aimlessly wandering in search of a refreshing Orange Julius.
Ina Fried in Mobile on June 8, 2011 at 11:49 am PT
Google is adding real-time public transit information for four U.S. cities, as well as Madrid and Turin, Italy, in the latest update to Google Maps.
In the States, the service is available in San Francisco, San Diego, Calif., Portland, Ore. and Boston.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 20, 2011 at 10:56 am PT
Google Maps is useful when you need to find the restaurant you’re headed to or to plan a trip. But the mapping business is more serious and significant than many perceive. Google plans to open up its cloud to companies and governments with huge troves of digital maps to build their own internal Google Earths.
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Liz Gannes in Social on April 19, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
Google Map Maker, which enlists users to expand and keep up to date Google Maps and Google Earth, will on Tuesday become available in the United States. (Other independent user mapping efforts include
Waze and
OpenStreetMap, both already available in the U.S. ) A product developed by Google in India, the company says Map Maker has already been used by thousands of cartophiles to edit maps in
183 countries and regions around the world. User edits are usually approved for inclusion in the live product within a few days. And now, that forgotten nation…the U.S..
John Paczkowski in News on March 30, 2011 at 4:25 pm PT
If Google wants to continue offering its mapping service in China, it best step lively. The licensing deadline is tomorrow, and as of Tuesday, China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping hadn’t received an application from the company, a requirement under regulations announced last May.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 7, 2011 at 10:09 am PT
The turn-by-turn navigation program will now automatically take into account current and historical traffic data when picking a route, Google said.
The move puts the smartphone in even deeper competition with dedicated GPS devices, which also offer real-time traffic data.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 2, 2011 at 9:59 am PT
Today’s event in Mountain View provided new details on the tablet-friendly version of Android and a new way to acquire apps. Mobilized was there liveblogging.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 1, 2011 at 2:57 pm PT
Several wedding-planning applications for mobile devices let brides- and grooms-to-be reach for an iPhone to manage the process, from finding the dress to registering for gifts to editing the guest list.
