Google have taken a rather novel approach to increasing their unparalleled street mapping services by employing cyclists on ricksaws to map tourist attractions off the beaten track. Reported by the Times, since cars or vehicles cannot get anywhere near these monuments and points of interest that are located in the middle of parks, fields and [...]

TechCrunch has just reported a new Android app called Places Directory. Sounds like an interesting application since it will automaticall list all the bars, restaurants, museums etc around where you are walking or driving if the that’s the case. It’s just another updated version of location based services to hit the mobile market. They report [...]

A report by the BBC establishes that 99% of the earth is mapped now. This monumental task was undertaken by Nasa and the Japanese ministry called Aster. No doubt Google will be updating their records in the not so distant future. Nasa is also reporting to be transfering old data to the new mapping system. [...]

PRE, PRE, PRE… that’s all it is around the net at the mo. So, speaking of mobile apps I had a little look yesterday at our own site on a Blackberry, courtesy of a friendly gent on the bus from Milan airport. it was the first time I’ve seen the little bugger in operation to [...]

An interesting article surfaced last week from Newswrdy about the iPhone: The new iPhone is a pointing device for the real world. Apple is trying to fast track the whole concept of getting access to location-based information. Although, their effort may be some what biased towards advertising since they appear to be more interested in [...]

The quite new and relatively untested Google Squared has been coming in for a bit of flak these days. But as TechCrunch reports Google make no apologies that this is part of their labs projects and therefore simply in its infancy. It hasn’t obviously stopped some from launching broadsides at the poor results returned on [...]