Google Maps

In the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, the company has replaced Google Maps with its own service. Initial previews of the feature were critical and most agreed that Apple had a long way to go if it was looking to dethrone Google. Business Insider spoke with Waze CEO Noam Bardin about the iPhone’s Continue Reading →

At a press event on Thursday, Amazon is widely expected to launch both an updated Kindle Fire tablet as well as a new e-ink reader. Those may only prepare the stage for an Amazon smartphone, however. Sources tell The Verge that Amazon will show off a smartphone of its own that follows the same strategy Continue Reading →

We knew that Amazon was looking for other ways to fill out the mapping components of the Kindle Fire without going to Google, because it just bought itself a 3D mapping company UpNext in July. Now, there’s additional indications that it doesn’t want Google in the maps slot, as Reuters reports that Amazon is hooking Continue Reading →

TomTom has confirmed that it will launch a dedicated Android version of its smartphone GPS software in October and will be demonstrating it today at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin. The app will have on-board maps as well as intelligent routing and traffic alerts along with other features typically found in smartphone GPS Continue Reading →

Google, in an attempt to outshine one of the worst kept secrets in the industry at the time — Apple’s 3D Maps announcement at WWDC 2012 — hastily put together its own presser 5 days in advance, to announce their entry into the “next dimension” of maps. That’s all water under the bridge now (see Continue Reading →

Google is an advertising company first and foremost, but the big revenue the company sees from ads is funding the rest of the company’s efforts — efforts that have brought us great products and services like Gmail, Google Maps and the company’s new Nexus 7 tablet. Search remains Google’s core product, of course, and countless Continue Reading →

One week after Google Maps went indoors in the UK, the Internet giant has announced that the US version of its indoor mapping service now includes museums, with 22 rolling out today. We first reported that Google Maps was going indoors last November, letting Android users navigate their way around the inside of buildings such Continue Reading →

Maps can be beautiful, interesting, and, of course, useful, but there are a lot of questions we address to maps — and these days, Google Maps specifically — that maybe a map isn’t the best tool for answering. Think of it this way. In the days before online trip planners and GPS, if you wanted Continue Reading →

Apple and Google are using military-grade spy planes to map your backyard. That’s the sensationalist headline. I like it. It’s really scary and it’s perfect for Fud-mongering. (FUD is an abbreviation for fear, uncertainty and doubt.) Similar headlines have everyone from privacy advocates to private citizens up in arms. After all, the 17th century proverb, Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120615_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Today on Shelly Palmer Digital Living: : I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the 21st century.  Still, people are irked when they think their privacy is being violated.  The latest uproar is over so called ‘spy Continue Reading →