Google Street View comes to the UK
News Because Street View is a function within Google Maps, it can be embedded for free within businesses' websites as part of the wider mapping application. Google incorporated Street View into its Google Maps for Mobile (GMM) application in September...
[March 19, 2009, 12:41]
Microsoft launches mapping beta
News And Amazon's A9 mapping tool displays street-level views in its service. Microsoft plans to add street-level images in the future. However, Lawlor said neither street-level nor satellite-based aerial views provide enough visual information for...
[December 8, 2005, 9:25]
Google's Street View hits the handset
News Google has launched a new version of its mobile mapping service, which includes the company's Street View service in a mobile format for the first time. Google hopes to launch Street View in the UK by the end of the year, although a specific date...
[September 18, 2008, 13:53]
Google demos Android software
News Google Maps' Street View works on Android. Google Maps, including this view with a satellite photo, is available on Android phones. Google demonstrated its Android mobile-phone software on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
[May 29, 2008, 12:09]
Bing Maps beta taps into Silverlight
News Bing Maps Beta requires Microsoft Silverlight to deliver very smooth three-dimensional transitions between satellite and street-view imagery. Microsoft has announced a beta version of Bing Maps that uses Silverlight to display 3D images and its own...
[December 3, 2009, 12:08]
Google Earth zooms in
News Google is adding geographic-coding support to Google maps so developers can easily get the coordinates for an street address. Jones, speaking in Mountain Veiw, California at Google Geo Developer Day, said the improvements will eventually show up in...
[June 13, 2006, 9:35]
Google, Tele Atlas to share mapping data
News Google wouldn't comment any further on the deal but the tie-up could potentially also be used to extend the Street View application in Google Maps, already available for parts of the US, to Europe. Google will have access to maps and dynamic...
[July 1, 2008, 9:01]
Meet the Dext: Motorola's first Android device
News The phone will run Android 1.5 Cupcake and offer access to Google's various services, including Google Maps with Street View, Google Voice Search, Picasa and GTalk. Motorola on Thursday officially introduced its first Google Android device: the...
[September 11, 2009, 9:15]
Privacy watchdog airs Google Street View concerns
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said it has concerns about Google's Street View and thinks the company could be breaching data-protection law. The ICO was also waiting to hear from Simon Davies, the director of Privacy International, over...
[July 8, 2008, 13:16]
Privacy watchdog clears Google's Street View
News Google's Street View mapping system has been given the all clear by the UK's privacy watchdog. Officers from the ICO met with Google and sought reassurances after concerns were raised about the Street View application being intrusive.
[August 1, 2008, 9:23]
Complete privacy 'does not exist', says Google
News Google Maps's satellite and street-level views have raised some privacy concerns. Google's Street View service didn't invade a Pittsburgh couple's privacy, the search giant said in a response to the couple's April lawsuit over the matter.
[July 31, 2008, 9:50]
Microsoft exec: Google 'years' behind us on privacy
News Cullen said Google had not invested enough to build privacy into its products, citing Street View as a prime example. Google's lead engineer for its Maps application Lars Rasmussen has previously brushed off criticisms of its approach to privacy.
[August 29, 2008, 16:55]
