Google gets users to build Street View wiki

As you may have gathered from its party-themed doodle, Google is celebrating its 13th birthday, a period which has seen the company rise from a simple research project to one of the biggest entities in the world with fingers in...

A Chinese company has unveiled a new Google Street View like service that displays street level images and maps of 41 cities all across the country, a recent blog post revealed.Google conflict with the Chinese government is no...

Microsoft and Google are being sued by a Louisiana based software company for allegedly violating its patents related to mapping technology.According to an article on Bloomberg, Transcenic Inc has alleged that the...

Microsoft has updated the Streetside feature on Bing Maps which now comes with sharper images and a panoramic view mode.In a blog post, the company explained that users had previously had to navigate across a street by using...

Microsoft plans to start collecting images with a fleet of Bing Maps Streetside cars in the UK in hopes of competing with Google Maps StreetView service. Like Google's Streetview, Microsoft's new service will offer images of...

Google has publicly apologised for the mistakes it made during the launch of its Twitter-like social networking tool Buzz, and claims that it's learned its lesson - and will be undergoing independent privacy reviews to keep it on...

Google's StreetView online mapping service suffered a set-back after around 250,000 German households opted out of its service. Ever since Google started taking photos for its StreetView service in Germany, citizens concerned...

Search engine giant Google has announced that, come April 5th, the company's Buzz social networking tool will get a new privacy reset function, which will ask the users to confirm or change their current Buzz privacy...

Google will be officially rolling out Street View in the next 24 hours as it promises to put online images for "almost all of the UK's roads, both rural and urban". Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist for the EMEA,...

Google has been warned about breaching Europeans' right to privacy and it has received a stiff letter warning it of what it can and can't do in the European Union. The letter was sent earlier this month by the...

In what could be marked as yet another incidence of soaring use of online technology in plotting crimes, police suspect that the fish thieves are using web pictures from Google’s mapping service, Google Earth, to steal...

Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said that 74 people have written to it about Google's Street View service since its launch last month. It said it would release details of the complaints and enquiries...

The director of Privacy International, Simon Davies, is lobbying the Information Commissioner to close Google Street View until the company sorts out privacy-related issues. The ICO has received a formal complaint based on the...

Liberal Democrats have tabled an early day motion to look into Google recently-announced Latitude phone tracking technology and will pay particular attention to the "privacy implications" of the service. The early day motion...

Google's Street View service has received the blessing of UK privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner, who has said that the safeguards Google has put in place for people's privacy are 'adequate'.The Street View service...