Articles tagged «google street view»
Google Blocks First-Person Shooter Game
News Business
Google has blocked a first person shooter game created by modifying its Street View mapping service. The game, "Google Shoot View'", developed by Dutch online marketing firm Pool Online, was created to promote its advertisement...
Google Street View Explores, Digitises Japan Tsunami
News Web
Google has decided to give its users a tour of the power of nature by digitally archiving the northeastern locations of Japan, which were the prime targets of the devastating tsunami and a massive earthquake in the month of March...
AMNews: Samsung Profits Dip, Google Street View Goes Indoors, Google TV Update
Overviews Business
Samsung has reported a dip of 23% in its profit following decrease in demands of flat panels as well as computer chips despite an increase in shipments of smartphones. Google has enhanced its Street View mapping service and took...
Google Has Improved Upon Privacy Policies, Can Do Better Says ICO
News Government
UK’s Information Commissioner's Office has informed that Google has made radical improvements to its privacy policies since the Wi-Fi scandal but there is still room for improvement.In an internal audit of Google’s...
City8 Launches Chinese Alternative to Google Street View
News Web
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...
Judge Won't Dismiss Google StreetView Data Collection Case
News Government
A federal judge in the United States has rejected Google Inc.’s plea to dismiss several cases filed against the company, accusing the company of storing personal data from several countries.San Francisco’s...
MIT Appoints Joichi Ito To Head Media Lab
News Web
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has named forty-four-year-old venture capitalist and college drop-out Joichi Ito as the new director of the MIT Media Lab.The lab, which is known for developing and demoing cutting...
Google retires Street View from Germany
News Web
Despite finally reaching an agreement with German authorities over its mobile snooping vehicles, Google has decided to cease its Street View information gathering activities in that country - effective immediately.Although the...
Google Brings Street View To Art Galleries
News Web
Google has announced the launch of its new Art Project, allowing people to take a Street View-style tour of 17 international art museums online.The 18 month project used specially designed trolleys to take 360 degree images of...
Google tells Connecticut to get stuffed
News Security
The State of Connecticut asked Google to hand over user data it collected from unsecured wireless networks when its Street Views cars trundled around the state, but Google refused. And now, in the face of the refusal,...
A look a what Google's StreetView cars see
News Web
Google's StreetView cars have been journeying around the globe taking snaps of the unsuspecting as they go about their daily business. Some may regard this as an intrusion, and indeed it is. Even more intrusive was the outfit's...
South Korea May Charge Google Over Street View
News Web
South Korean police officials have announced that Google broke the law by collected data from unsecured wireless networks in the country and have forwarded the case to prosecutors. The search giant has been accused of collecting...
Ex Channel 4 Boss Hits Out At "Monstrous" Google
News Web
Former Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has accused Google of being "profoundly unethical" and not doing enough to support the UK economy. In an article written for the Mail on Sunday, Johnson chastised the company for using tax...
MP slams privacy laws as 'waste of money'
News Web
A Conservative MP has slammed Britain's privacy laws as "a waste of public money", and says search giant Google should hand footage from its Street View cars over to the police without a court order. The call by Tory MP for...
Google Street View Broke South Korean Privacy Law
News Web
Google illegally harvested private data whilst gathering information for its Street View service in South Korea, the country’s police said on Thursday.South Korea has become the latest country to find Google in breach of...






