February 5, 2012

Nestoria quits GoogleMaps after ‘bankrupting’ charges

Property search engine Nestoria has announced that it is dropping GoogleMaps in favour of OpenStreetMap. The move follows Google’s decision to start charging commercial websites for using their maps if they exceed certain bandwidth allowances

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Video: New Google maps go indoors

msnbc.com: New Google maps go indoors Maps include interiors of buildings and airports.

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Video: New Google maps go indoors

Inside Google’s Big, Bold & Risky Atlantic Wind Project

A multi-billion-dollar ‘superhighway’ to connect offshore wind turbines to the US electric grid sounds like a can’t-lose idea, but it’s adrift without clearing some big financial, regulatory and technological hurdles.

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Inside Google’s Big, Bold & Risky Atlantic Wind Project

Google Street View now in Belgium

Google Street View arrived in Belgium. Can be handy if you want to look around airports, or for example something like this: http://maps.google.be/maps?q=44+Krakele ..

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Google Street View now in Belgium

Google Wants to Show Why the Cloud Means Bigger is Greener

A top executive at the web juggernaut explains why in computing, as in so many other industries, scale drives efficiency.

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Google Wants to Show Why the Cloud Means Bigger is Greener

Google to kill Buzz, focus on Plus

SAN FRANCISCO: Google is getting ready to press the mute button on its much-maligned Buzz service. Buzz will be shut down within the next few weeks.

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Google to kill Buzz, focus on Plus

Microsoft Respond to Google’s Nortel and Novell Patent Accusations

David Drummond, Chief Legal Officer at Google recently posted a blog accusing a variety of rival companies of forming consortiums to bid for the Novell and Nortel patents, in a campaign against Android.   Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith has

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Microsoft Respond to Google’s Nortel and Novell Patent Accusations