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Google Business Photos come to Canada with Wisdek being the first Canadian company to be certified by Google to offer their hottest new service. (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Wisdek Google Advertising Experts have just become the first agency in Canada to be certified as a Google Business Photos Trusted Agency. They have joined a small handful of elite agencies across the globe to offer Google’s hottest new service to North America. “The benefits of working with a certified trusted agency...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google was fined over $180,000 by a Germany privacy regulator due to how the company collected data while it created the Street View mapping service more than three years ago. In 2010, Google acknowledged it collected personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi signals while it was creating the controversial mapping program. Street View was meant to give users a first-person perspective of the world, showing shops, sidewalks,...

Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Google Street View has become a fascination for some and a convenience for others. For creative firm Teehan+Lax Labs it may have become both. The firm has strung miles of Street Views together to create Google Street View Hyperlapse. Hyperlapse puts Street View images together so it appears to be a time-lapse video driving down a road. The company wrote about it on its blog. The Hyperlapse version of Street View is a two-minute video...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online One could perhaps make the argument any picture a photographer or subject doesn’t want to be made public shouldn’t be put anywhere on the Internet. Yet for a variety of reasons, people do want to share their photos online without fear of them becoming visible to the outside world. Yesterday, a number Flickr users saw their worst fears become reality when they received an email from the photo-sharing website’s president...

Rayshell Clapper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Did you know now anyone with Google Earth access – either via smartphone app or the website – can now check out Mars as well? That’s right: Google Earth has gone interplanetary. It now has an even better Google Earth Mars option. According to Daily Mail Online, users can view the planet’s surface in greater detail than ever before because of the high resolution images from NASA that are now being used by Google. These...

CHENNAI, India, January 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrates Google Maps Engine to bring location-awareness and visualization capabilities into its Cloud ERP After announcing the global availability of Ramco ERP on Cloud [http://www.ramco.com ], Mobile and Tablets, Ramco Systems today added yet another feature to its base product-Location-aware and Visualization capabilities with Google Maps. Ramco Systems has partnered with Google's...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Though the country is at war with its neighbors and closely watched by the US and the rest of the world, Google has found it fitting to play neutral with North Korea and cover the country in Google Maps. Until today, the only view of North Korea available in Google Maps was stitched together using Google’s “Map Maker.” This process creates maps from data supplied by the public. Working with citizen cartographers, the new...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The flawed Internet Explorer browser, not bad blood with Microsoft, is the reason that Windows Phone users have been unable to access Google Maps on their mobile devices, officials from the Mountain View, California-based tech giant have claimed. As reported Friday by Salvador Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Times, Google representatives said that nothing had changed in the web mapping application. Rather, it was redirecting users to...

Areas, distances and angles can be quickly measured on Google Maps using Android phones and tablets with “Planimeter - GPS area measure” App. The possibility to make land measurements on the map, to use GPS for tracking, to save, open, share, export and edit measurement results make this app a good choice for amateurs and professionals working in such areas as farming, road building and coating, construction and planning, solar cell panels installation, real estate, etc....

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Apple’s new Maps application quickly made meme status within hours of its initial availability. Apple’s release of Maps was one of the worst in company history: National landmarks were either missing or in the wrong area, areas were thrown back 50 years with black and white satellite images, and bridges and roads appeared to be melted into the ground. The 3D flyovers worked pretty well, though. Apple has since apologized...