Maps News
Bing Discusses the Future of Mapping
28th October 2010
Microsoft hosted an event in London yesterday to discuss the future for Bing maps with a panel of industry experts and users. John Craske from AccuraCast reports on the event. More »
Twitter Launches Places
15th June 2010
Twitter has finally announced that the launch of their long-awaited geolocation service, in the form of a new feature known as Twitter Places. More »
Bing For Business Launches In U.K.
18th May 2010
Bing is finally trying to catch up with Google Maps and the Google Local Business Centre by making it slightly easier for businesses in the U.K. to secure placement on Bing Maps. More »
Google Launches Place Pages For Mobile
29th April 2010
After the successful launch of Place Pages in conjunction with Google Maps, last fall, Google has now gone a step further and introduced Place Pages optimised for mobile handsets. More »
Facebook Community Pages Live
22nd April 2010
Facebook Community Pages are now live and the new service already has over 6.5 million pages at the time of launch.
Google Real Estate Search Improves
10th July 2009
Google has some good news for those on the lookout for a new home, office or other immovable property. More »
Is Google Responsible For Terrorist Attacks In Mumbai?
16th December 2008
Once again, advances in technology have been misused by a few people, and the technology is being blamed for it… Google Earth was used by terrorists, to study the detailed layout of the places, which they had planned to attack, in the city of Mumbai. More »
Compare Petrol Prices On Yahoo!
15th October 2008
Yahoo! has launched a new service that could help users save some money. They have started providing a shortcut, via Yahoo! search, that will allow users to know the prices of gas at various petrol pumps in the vicinity. More »
Google Maps Street Views Now On Mobile
24th September 2008
In keeping with their aim to make information available to all, at all times, Google has now added another feature to their repertoire. Street Views on Google Maps will now be accessible to mobile phone users. More »
Google Launches Map Maker
4th September 2008
Google is trying very hard to improve the data available on Google Maps for various regions of the world. In order to do this, they have launched a new tool called Map Maker, which uses a Wiki-like approach to mapping. More »
Microsoft And AOL Step Up Their Mobile Services
3rd April 2008
A few days ago, Jupiter research had predicted that mobile search ad revenues would touch $5 billion over the next 5 years. Microsoft and AOL are both taking this statement very seriously. They are working very hard to improve their mobile offerings in an effort to make up for the loss of market share in desktop search. More »
Flickr Launches New Map Applications
19th November 2007
Photo sharing site Flickr is launching an improved mapping application this week. Flickr Maps allows users to associate their images with a specific location on the map. More »
Google Maps Gets New Logo
15th November 2007
Localisation and personalisation have been Google’s mantra for 2007. Google personalised home rebranded to iGoogle and got its own logo in May. Localised results with mini-maps made their way into the organic search results page as far back as November last year. And now Google Maps has got its own new logo. More »
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