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Google Checkout opens for business

News The back-end system is the same as Google has been using for at least a year to allow customers to pay for premium services on its Google Earth, Google Video and Picasa Web services, Kamangar said. Google is set to unveil today its much anticipated...

29 June 2006, 10:46

News.blog: Google and Apple collaborating?

News The GPS fields in iPhoto is not exactly earth-shattering news. A posting in a forum for enthusiasts of Intel-based Macs suggests that Apple and Google are collaborating on technology in secret. A Monday post by a user with the alias 'Javester...

5 October 2006, 9:28

Photos: Google goes green

News The main page for Google's new 'green' mashup Web site with information about earth-friendly locations in five of the US's top travel destinations. Google's 'green' mashup page for Orlando. The site also features tips on "travelling green" during...

31 May 2006, 9:39

News.blog: NASA lifts Google Moon

News NASA, for example, recently added photographs taken from the satellite sensor Landsat into Google Earth.The updated moon site includes higher-resolution lunar maps and additional content from the Apollo missions, including panoramic images, audio...

19 September 2007, 8:22

Microsoft Web scheme targets Google

News Also next week, the company will announce a free commercial licence to use a JavaScript 'control' to display data from its Virtual Earth mapping service. Microsoft will take aim at its rival Google next week with a new Web development plan.

9 September 2005, 10:37

Photos: Roam the heavens with Google Sky

News Google added a feature a couple of months ago called Sky -- which lets users roam the heavens from its Google Earth application. Effectively turning Google Earth on its head, users are given a view of the sky as seen from Earth where they can view...

Tags: navigate, earth, credit, star

29 November 2007, 9:53

Google and Microsoft vie for the Earth

News An updated version of Google Earth was released on Tuesday night, adding a timescale to the basic version of the Web-based geospatial application. The feature -- in which a slider is used to scroll through time -- was previously available only to...

13 September 2006, 9:10

Microsoft vs Google: Who's greener?

News As Google and Microsoft battle for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a new question has cropped up: which one is doing more to save planet Earth? Google, whose free cafeteria food is infamously tasty, takes its earth-friendly practices into...

7 June 2006, 9:57

Google ups ante in mapping rivalry

News In the fast-moving war over localised search, Google wasted no time on Monday responding to Microsoft MSN's Virtual Earth test site with a new 'hybrid' site of its own that lets people see an aerial view of a location with superimposed road maps.

26 July 2005, 8:38

Why Google hired Vint Cerf

News In the case of Google Earth, for example, if you find yourself at a particular location and you ask where the nearest Chinese restaurant is, they can all be popped up, with little logos with the appropriate symbols on them, and you could mouse...

12 September 2005, 9:12

Cars and stars as Google's Page takes the stage

News After dismounting, Page wowed the audience with a demonstration movie of Google Earth that featured dizzying pans across the globe, and then announced that Google is working with Volkswagen on a prototype of Google Earth for car dashboards.

7 January 2006, 15:34

News.blog: Google Maps adds user-created photos and more

News The news is coming out of the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California, where Poly9 unveiled on Tuesday a Flash-based Google Earth competitor, Free Earth, which doesn't require a client-side download.

Tags: earth, maps, map, san

15 May 2008, 9:15

Google's grand ambition

News Certainly, it has built on the core business, adding everything from the free Web-based email service Gmail to Google Earth, a satellite mapping service. In addition, there are rumours that Google is eyeing satellites, the technology that drives...

22 September 2005, 10:08

Photos: California's wildfires rage on

News Credit: Google Earth/J.Emilio Flores for Getty Lost to the fire was the Castle Kashan (shown above in a Google Earth image), a fairy-tale-like structure built 30 years ago on this Malibu hill. The Calfires site also makes use of Google Maps to...

Tags: air, response, tech, earth

25 October 2007, 9:02

Google mapper advises: take browsers to the limit

News Much as we have tried, we haven't been able to do this in JavaScript," he said, expressing hope that Google Earth and Maps would eventually be merged into one Web application. As such, Rasmussen remains disappointed with Google Earth, which is...

29 July 2005, 9:47