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11.22.09

Google's Turn-By-Turn Maps for Android 2.0 Kicks Pricey Nav Apps to the Curb

By Corinne Iozzio Posted 10.28.2009 at 12:47 pm 1 Comment

Hot on the heels of the Android 2.0 mobile OS release, Google's sweetening the deal: the Eclair-flavored refresh to their mapping app turns handsets into feature-rich GPS devices -- for free.

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Here Comes the Google Street View Trike

Google's Trike helps expand Street View beyond the usual roads and paths

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 10.16.2009 at 1:49 pm 2 Comments

Google Street View has typically depended upon camera-toting vans and cars to provide onsite visuals to Google Maps users. But a more recent addition to the wheeled fleet includes a trike pedaled by a Google employee who resembles a fit ice cream man.

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READ MORE ABOUT > computers, google, google car, google maps, google van, street view, trike, Video

Google Explains Street View to Wary Japanese With--What Else?--Adorable Stop-Motion Animation

Google Japan's new video aims to alleviate privacy concerns among Japanese residents

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 09.14.2009 at 3:59 pm 2 Comments

Fret no longer, citizens of Japan, about Google's camera vans exposing the awkward moments of your private lives to millions via Street View. Because here, see? All that's behind its scary secrets is an impossibly adorable anthropomorphic camera truck in a wonderland of children's toys. Dawww, its bobbing camera head just snapped a photo of your car! It's so cute!

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