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Google’s StreetView technology, which is embedded into the Google Maps product on the browser, and on mobile phones like the iPhone and Android, has long wowed users with its option to view the road inside a 360-degree panorama. But Microsoft Research’s latest effort, which is being unveiled at this week’s Siggraph computer graphics conference, approaches viewing streets from a different direction. Literally.

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While it’s easy slinging arrows at Apple for its closed and tightly-controlled iPhone App Store, there’s something to be said for its security. Google’s Android operating system has long faced more complicated concerns with its much freer application approval process, its openness to side-loaded apps (installing apps via APK files that you receive through some source other than the Android Market), plus having users root the platform to take control over certain internal system processes.

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Humans have always been fascinated by the night sky. And Googlers are no exception. Over the years, Google engineers have used their 20 percent time to create Google Sky, Moon, Mars and most recently Google Sky Map for Android . This handy app, built by engineers in our Pittsburgh office, turns your Android-powered phone into a live map of the night sky. You just point your phone to the sky and it gives you information about the stars and planets that you’re looking at. Since we introduced the app a year ago, Sky Map has been downloaded more than 5 million times. On Sunday night we had a…

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Craig Silverstein, Google’s first employee, is still the company’s director of technology. The question is why? He’s undoubtedly in a financial position where he no longer has to work. Maybe that’s precisely why he remains at Google, connected to the founders and their vision of the company. Silverstein was in Gainesville Florida for his 20th high [...]

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Today Google announced upgraded Maps for Android, with the addition of a new mobile version of Places (not to be confused with the Android app Places Directory). It enables users to browse categories of businesses nearby (bars, ATMs, gas, etc). It also allows users to create custom categories (e.g., “free wifi”). The data presented are from [...]

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Mobile is becoming more & more a part of an Internet Marketers life asAndroidis at the heart of that acceleration. Symbiandominates mobile devices worldwide whileBlackberryleads here in North America, albeit both are losing share at an accelerated place, perhaps in part because those devices provide relatively poor to no web browsing. Although much better, browsing & search itself on theiPhonehas always been secondary to its apps asSteve Jobs stated himself, “search hasn’t happened.” Thus for years at Internet Marketing conferences mobile search was a side session filled with charts…

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Google has developed something like an Android social network for parking spots. Called “Open Spot,” it relies on people rather than sensors or other sophisticated technology to locate parking spots that are being vacated.Open Spot users indicate when they’re leaving a spot. The phone’s location awareness indicates that person’s location on the map and shows [...]

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Though late to the Android party Yahoo has released Search, Mail and Messenger for Android. I downloaded Mail and Messenger — by using a 2d barcode scanner in my EVO off my iPad screen — but was unable to open Search to test-drive it before writing this. Yahoo has also improved its mobile web experiences [...]

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Google has remotely removed two free apps from several hundred Android phones because the apps misrepresented their purpose and thus violated Android developer policies, according to a company spokesman. This marks the first time Google has used the Remote Application Removal Feature that allows the company to delete apps for security reasons that have been installed through Android Market. The apps were proof-of-concept programs designed to test the feasibility of distributing a program that could later be used to take control of the device in an attack, according to Jon Oberheide, the developer who wrote and distributed them.

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Over the past month there has been 3 major conferences in the new search world: Google I/O, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, & SMX Advanced.I attended the first and last but there must have been some cross-up with my invitation to the Apple WWDC. Google I/O was a defacto Android conference where I noticed a lot [...]

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