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BlackBerry Pearl Gets Google Maps with Voice Search

Google has just released a new version of their maps application that supports voice recognition search on the BlackBerry Pearl. That means Pearl users can load Google Maps, hold a side button, say "pizza, i said PIZZA...PEE ZZ UH" and have the application magically find tacos in your immediate vicinity. This upgrade doesn't look to be automatic, so hit the link to have Google text message your phone for the "experimental" update. [Google Maps via Gear Diary]

10:02 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Mark Wilson
1,264 views, 24 comments

Latest by Schalliol: If it's part of the BB Maps App, it will be part of the iPhone app...if it works well enough. more »

google street view

Google Street View Car Drives Into Microsoft Campus, Gets Laughed At By Windows Live Maps

Reader Don sends in this fantastic tip about a Google Street View car actually driving around and taking pictures inside a Microsoft campus. The GooCar—shown here photographed by Microsoftees—wasn't just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus. That's ballsy. What's even funnier, says Don, is that the Google guys were driving around the team that does Windows Live Maps, like nothing was wrong, when other Microsoft guys were laughing and yelling at them. Much nerd hilarity ensued. [Thanks Don!]

6:01 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Jason Chen
26,287 views, 41 comments

Latest by genpetahhhh: @mowglicub: makes me think of just the other day me using google maps to meet up with my brother (who works at Microsoft) and it giving me bad directions...I finally had to give in and use his live maps for more »

palm centro

Palm Selling Centro Unlocked for $299, Gets Google Maps with My Location

Already available on the three biggest US carriers, the only way to make the Centro a bigger hit is to sell it unlocked—and that's what Palm is doing, for $299. It's only in white, though. You can pick it up online at Palm's site. Also, starting tomorrow, they'll be offering Google Maps with My Location for Centros, which locates you with GPS or triangulation. Details: More »

4:04 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By matt buchanan
3,996 views, 23 comments

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Caption Contest: The Google Maps Prius Gets a Speeding Ticket

My attempt: "This had better not end up on the internet somehow."

Surely, you can do better. [Treehugger]

10:17 AM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Adam Frucci
25,338 views, 208 comments

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Google Maps Driving Simulator Lets You 'Drive' Anywhere

This top-down Google Maps-based driving simulator is one step closer to our ultimate dream: simulated driving on any street, anywhere, based on data available from Google Maps/Google Earth. Geoquake's 2D Flash version may be really simple—you only have a choice of four vehicles and there's no actual collision detection—but it's got the right idea. When someone can take in street data and feed it into a 3D driving engine so we can simulate a trip to the Grand Canyon without leaving our desks, that's when we'll know the future has arrived. [Geoquake]

5:45 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Jason Chen
14,359 views, 30 comments

Latest by Zanderkinn: eh, this was in simcity 4. Except that I got to build my own tracks, and drive some ridiculous vehicles more »

cellphones

Google Maps For Mobile 2.2 Saves Gas With Bus and Train Directions

The new version of Google Maps for Mobile (2.2) is offering public transportation directions "in all of the same places as the web version of Google Maps, including Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Vancouver, and over 40 other cities in North America." Users will also be able to easily browse through all scheduled trips and get information on the last transit trips for the day. Throw that in with the "My Location" feature, and you have yourself a useful tool in the fight against high gas prices. More »

8:20 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Sean Fallon
6,831 views, 21 comments

Latest by chadmd23: Why no New York??? more »

google voyeur

Camera Shy Minnesota Town Bans Google Maps Street View

The townsfolk of North Oaks, Minnesota, want to be able to pick their nose, flash cars, conduct drug deals and fall down on the sidewalk without the whole world knowing about it, so they've forbidden Google Maps Streetview cars from crossing city limits. At least those are the only reasons I can think of as to why this quiet community of 4,500 would want to go all Wuher at Chulum's Cantina and ban Google's voyeuristic fleet of droid-like camera cars.
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7:00 PM on Sun Jun 1 2008
By Jack Loftus
13,462 views, 52 comments

Latest by n/a: @BurnZ_: icegnome's idea is much funnier... more »

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How Google Really Places Map Markers

Don't let them deceive you with their fancy topographic buzzwords, and smartypants search algorithms. They just use these, and have people who move them really really fast as you click. Seriously. Sergey—the Ukrainian plumber who is fixing the pipes at home—told me the other day. [Dark Roasted Blend]

7:20 AM on Fri May 23 2008
By jesusdiaz
104,690 views, 30 comments

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Google Maps Adds Wikipedia Articles, Geotagged Photos, Real Estate Listings

Google Maps has just added even more information for your geographical perusal, including the option to place links to Wikipedia articles and geotagged photos from Panoramio on top of your maps. It's a cool way to see shots of areas taken with a more artful eye than the Street View vans as well as check out info written by strangers and verified by nobody of authority. It's also added real estate listings, which you can turn on under the "search options" link. The future is now! [Google Maps via Lifehacker]

6:30 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,332 views, 13 comments

Latest by GrimaceXL: i noticed this last week and thought it was a feature that wasn't new, but hadn't stumbled upon, but now seeing this article, it is new. They must have been tracking all my queries on for sale houses in my more »

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Google Street View Becomes Google Bag View in Alaska

One of the occupational hazards of Google Street View is, I guess, having the camera obscured by something. It could be a pterodactyl, perhaps, flying low for a closer view, it could be a giant Monty Python-style animated brogue homing in on the car as if it were a roach ripe for the squishing. Or it could be a plastic bag. One minute it's dancing around, American Beauty-style, the next it's spread-eagled over the camera rather like an over-amorous spinster at a barn dance. This is what Minnie Street in Fairbanks, Alaska, looks like, according to Google Street View. [Google Maps via Google Sightseeing]

8:40 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By AddyDugdale
7,548 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: thats in several random places.. but believe me just the fact of having gg street view here in the banks was already a reason for celebration.. more »

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Google Maps Goes Gangsta - GTA IV Maps Ahoy

Even Google Maps is getting in on GTA IV fever, making an online version of the map that came with the game. In a way, it's much better than the paper map because you can click on and off different points of interests (missions, restaurants, safe houses, gun shops) and know where you're going. What with Google mapping out the ocean, an imaginary world isn't that much of a stretch. Are we the only ones here that wishes they were playing GTA IV instead of working? [Google Maps IGN via Kotaku]

12:15 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jason Chen
31,817 views, 23 comments

Latest by Sockpuppet: h@Sockpuppet: huh irony. My talentless typing fingers typed talentless wrong. more »

cellphones

Sony Ericsson Paris Image Leaked; Face Job Works Wonders

The last time we caught Sony Ericsson's Paris on the tubes it looked a little chunkier, but now the aesthetics have been immensley improved. For the proof, check out the image above. USEB has run a complete rundown of the expected specifications, so jump in for the best of what they found. More »

11:00 PM on Sat Apr 5 2008
By Haroon Malik
10,038 views, 12 comments

Latest by jackfrost132: @Step666: Turn it sideways, wham widescreen. more »

gps

Send Google Maps and MapQuest Addresses to Your Garmin

In a move not unlike the "Send2Car" feature on the Dash Express GPS navigator, Garmin has worked it so that people using Google Maps and MapQuest will easily be able to send the address they're looking at to their navigator, to avoid typing it in all over again. More »

12:30 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Wilson Rothman
5,207 views, 15 comments

Latest by quikboy: I wish I could do this with Live Maps :P more »

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Pentagon Bans Google Maps Peeks

We thought this was pretty obvious, but after the Pentagon discovered Google Maps' 360-degree panoramic coverage of Fort Sam Houston Army base in Texas, they have officially banned them from "filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases." How the heck the army allowed cars with cameras mounted on them inside their army bases is yet to be known. Next, CIA officially bans Google from snooping into their secret cake recipes database. [BBC News]

4:49 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By jesusdiaz
4,044 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: the images are aerial, no cars are riding through bases. And yes you can take a 360 picture from above more »

Jailbroken 1.1.3 iPhone Having Faux-GPS Problems? Here's the Fix If you've been having trouble getting the location service in Google Maps to work in your jailbroken iPhone, Lifehacker's figured out a fix to get you going again. [Lifehacker]

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Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3


We've got the walk-through video above, but here's what we think of iPhone Firmware 1.1.3. The Google Maps location finding is excellent, probably because Apple made sure they programmed in Moscone's data points correctly into their location services. It takes a while to zero in onto your location because it's not GPS, which means it's not really that great for turn-by-turn directions where you need to know whether or not to make a right at the next light. More »

3:28 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Jason Chen
37,072 views, 101 comments

Latest by n/a: I really dont get it , you are here at Gizmodo(the guys that turned the monitors off a CES) and complain about MP3· ringtones...I have them Games I have them Move the icons around...I have it change skins and themes I have more »

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iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware Update is Official

The iPhone got its expected firmware upgrade, delivering version 1.1.3 that we've seen and debated about before. It delivers new features like the ability to send SMS messages to multiple recipients at once, faux-GPS on Google Maps via triangulation, Google Maps showing the hybrid map view, drag and drop icons on the home screen and bookmarks on the home screen (i.e. Webclips). There are also some new features, such as videos with chapters, the ability to display lyrics on music. Check out some screenshots below and hit the jump for the official press release.
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12:27 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Adam Frucci
34,703 views, 51 comments

Latest by n/a: My only question is how exactly the GPS works. It obviously does not use satellites to show a person exactly where they are on a map, because you can walk into building and the gps software can still track you. more »

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TomTom Teams Up With Google Maps for One-Click Navigation

Google and TomTom have joined forces to make their products compatible. Thanks to the "Send to GPS" button that Google has added to Google Maps, you can send routes from Google Maps direct to your navigation device via TomTom Home. See how it works in the video below. More »

6:51 AM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By AddyDugdale
16,914 views, 27 comments

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