We're fat. Gas is expensive and pollutes. It's a great way to see a new city. It's a nice day out. Whatever the reason, we should be walking more. Whether it's to work, to dinner or just around, a good walk burns calories, clears your head, and cures tiredness. ...
In honor of today's iPhone 3G launch, here's a clever new app that taps the new model's GPS capabilities: G-Park, which helps you navigate back to where you parked your car. All you do is tap the Park Me button optionally adding details about where you parked. Later, when you...
The mobile version of Google Maps has been "location aware" since last November, meaning it could pinpoint your location using either your phone's built-in GPS or cell-tower triangulation. Alas, Palm Centro users couldn't enjoy the location love; they had to input their positions manually (the horror!). As...
Want to get from point A to point B using convenient, inexpensive public transportation? Fire up the latest version of Google Maps for Mobile, which provides bus and/or train routes right on your phone. Version 2.2 provides transit directions for over 50 North American cities, from Ann...
GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO) today announced the integration of Google MapsTM API Premier into the tracking platform of the gpVectorTM Personal Location Service PLS technology. The company's PLS system consists of a matchbook-sized, location-reporting module that utilizes GTX Corp's "always-on" Assisted-GPS tracking capabilities. Cellular transmission services are provided by the...
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Buxton announced today that they have licensed with Google, Inc. to use Google Maps as the mapping program to drive its online site and customer management system, SCOUT, beginning June 13. The web-based tool provides clients with instant access to the...
Information Builders, the independent leader in production business intelligence BI systems, today announced the release of WebFOCUS for Google Maps, the first rapid mashup application in the business intelligence market. WebFOCUS for Google Maps provides an intuitive graphical user interface GUI for rapid development of geographically...
XING ( www.xing.com ) today announced a new feature with which its members can view the distribution of their business network with Google Maps. The integration of Google Maps into the XING platform gives members a new perspective on their personal network, visualizing geographic locations of their direct business contacts...
Suppose you're headed across town to meet with a new client. The directions you got from MapQuest say the trip will take you about 35 minutes, so you plan accordingly. But then you get caught in traffic and end up arriving 20 minutes late -- not the kind of first impression you want to make....
SAN DIEGO -- Webmetrics, the leading provider of web performance monitoring solutions, announced today that Google Maps APIs have maintained 100 percent uptime for the past 90 days. Using its GlobalWatch Monitoring platform, Webmetrics has monitored the response times and availability for Google Maps Service and Geocoder APIs, which have...
MELBOURNE, Australia -- The REA Group (ASX:REA) (realestate.com.au Ltd and its subsidiary businesses) announced today the signing of a new Enterprise Agreement with search leader Google. This signifies the beginning of a worldwide Google Maps licensing arrangement between the two businesses. The REA Group is already one of the largest...
Front Door Software has released a new feature for its Retriever laptop security product that "Locks Your Laptop's Front Door." If a laptop is lost or stolen, Retriever customers can now log onto the internet and track their computers using Google Maps if it goes on-line.
Help customers find you. Register your business on Google Maps for free. Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) is a mapping/ Yellow Pages-like search function offered by Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif. Google Maps now offers a tab called MyMaps so Help customers find you. Register your business...
WeatherBug, the Germantown-based provider of live, local weather information, has developed a new mapplet for Google Maps. Available now in the "My Maps" tab on maps.google.com, the WeatherBug mapplet puts temperature markers on the map from WeatherBug's proprietary network of WeatherBug Tracking Stations and weather sensors worldwide. The mapplet also...