Google pulls some street images
Google has removed dozens of photos from its new UK Street View service.
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20.3.2009 Google pulls some street images
Google has removed dozens of photos from its new UK Street View service.
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20.3.2009 DOWNLOAD Street Wars: Construction Underworld
Street Wars Online, a multi-player, real time, strategy game where you are a drug dealer in one of 6 major U.S. citys and gives you the opportunity to become a high profile mafia boss.
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The Wall Street Journal interviews Steve Ballmer
For 26 years, the chief executive of Microsoft Corp. had worked hand in hand with Bill Gates to guide a tiny personal-computer-software maker into a technology behemoth whose products are at the center of the world's businesses and homes. But the day before, Mr. Gates had announced plans to step away from Microsoft in two years. The duo would become a solo act.
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30.7.2006 Windows Live Local, offers street-side level imagery!
Windows Live Local technical preview (pre-beta version) will go live offering "street-side" level imagery for Seattle and San Francisco.
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28.2.2006 Google Maps visits up 41% following UK Street View launch
Following the launch of Google Street View in the UK yesterday (19 March 2009), UK Internet visits to Google Maps UK Increased by 41%.
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23.3.2009 Hubble Images Screen Saver
Take your mind to the heavens every time your computer is left idle. The Hubble Images Screen Saver displays images of nebulae and celestial bodies, captured by the world-famous telescope.
There's no other information concerning the images than the names, so if you wish to learn more about spacey sights with names like "Eta Carinae" or "NGC-3603," you'll have to look elsewhere. But the full-screen NASA photographs will jettison you to places far removed from this mudane, terrestrial existence.
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XP SP3 Integrated Images on MSDN
Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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3.5.2008 Images of Zune HD Retail Packaging Leaked
A tweet by Crazyphoneguy yesterday revealed the packaging material that comes with the Zune HD. Some things, just cannot be faked, there is no doubt this image is the real deal.
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24.8.2009 Vista SP2 RTM DVD ISO Images Available for Download
Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to manufacturing on April 28, 2009. As was the case with Vista SP1, the RTM and General Availability dates failed to coincide.
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15.5.2009 Download Free Vista and XP from Microsoft as VHD Images
Microsoft continues to offer free copies of its Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems for download, in a tradition that started approximately a couple of years back.
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28.8.2009 Download Free Vista and XP SP3 via IE App Compatibility VPC Images
Since 2007, Microsoft has been offering free copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista for download, in order to make up for a handicap specific to the Windows client, namely the fact that two different versions of Internet Explorer cannot be installed and run simultaneously on the same operating system.
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30.12.2008 Capture Windows 7 and Vista SP2 Images with ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 Beta
Capturing Windows 7 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 images, but also client assessment, updating and deployment are tasks that can be performed with System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
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15.6.2009 Download 32-bit and 64-bit Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream ISO Images
Microsoft is offering for download both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista SP1, the slipstream versions as ISO images. A slipstream version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is essentially nothing more than the RTM version of the latest Windows client with the service pack already integrated.
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29.2.2008Google Maps Gets Its Own Version of Clippy (And Some Useful Street View Updates)
Google Maps has
just launched a number of updates
that make Street View much more prominent. Now, whenever you're viewing a map where there is Street View imagery available, you'll be able to drag
"Pegman" from the view slider to the street where you'd like to see a picture.
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26.11.2008Google street view car hits a bridge
Google street view is not only helpful but it has produced many quality blunders that keep us coming back for more. In the latest edition of a Google
street view bork up, a Google street view driver tried to drive under a low bridge, the bridge won. In the images below you can clearly see the
bridge that the driver tried to go under but in the following pictures you see that the attempt resulted in a bent camera rig as the following
pictures are looking straight up. Google must have a good sense of humor as it tends to leave these kinds of pictures live.
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10.04.2009Google Street View goes live for Canadians
Many Canadians can now see their homes, streets, points of interest and landmarks on Google Street View. The street level view of the top major
cities in Canada has finally gone live, after months of Google cars and cameras roaming the streets, adding the same feature Americans have on Google
Maps. The added street view perspective gives Canadians a detailed image view of the largest cities in Canada, allowing users to take a virtual 360
degree tour of the city. The online virtual tour of cities is available for free on Google Maps, and can be activated by clicking on the icon of the
little yellow man when the street preview is available.
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13.10.2009Google Street + Twitter = Stweet?
That's right, Stweet is a mash up between Google Street View and Twitter! Now you can navigate the streets of the world and see who has been there
before you and what they've said! Certain Twitter applications can let Twitter your location in co-ordinates. What Stweet does is takes those
co-ordinates and determines where in the world you are before dropping your message down on the street. One such applications is TwitterFon. Just as
with Twitter initially, the uses may seem few and far between. However, if there is one thing Twitter has showed us, it's that we probably
underestimate everything. With such an increase in the locating capabilities of software, it's no surprise that privacy issues are arising.
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12.05.2009Google attempts to protect identities in Street View feature
Since the debut of Google's Street View in its mapping application, bloggers and curiosity seekers have made it somewhat of a sport to catch folks
who may not have wanted their activities photographed...
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15.05.2008Google Earth delivers miracle on 34th Street, and 65th Street, and...
It may not cover all of the good boys and girls in Manhattan, but Google Earth's 3-D option has bulked up enough to make a virtual traveler
feel a little like an airborne Santa...
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24.12.2008NY Considers Crosswalk iPod Ban
If you're going to be in New
York soon, you may want to
think twice about crossing the
street wearing an iPod.
That's because legislation is
being introduced that would
make being distracted by an
electronic device while
crossing the street illegal...
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08.02.2007EU agency is 'confident' Google Maps will alter Street View
Google's all-seeing eye may bother US citizens, but the search company faces repeated difficulty even getting its technology adopted by other
nations. This time, the European Union is skeptical about Street View...
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16.05.2008Google Street is coming to Canada
Google will soon be coming to 11 of Canada's largest cities including Halifax, Montreal, Winnipeg and Calgary. The Internet giant will be driving
around cities in the coming weeks to map the streets of Canada to include a street-eye view of streets, buildings and their surroundings. The street
view will provide users to help locate meeting spots, buildings and a better idea of their destination. With the added bonus of being able to see
your own home on Google, many people raise privacy concerns, which Google is ready to handle. Images of people's faces and licence plates will be
automatically blurred out, and any requested offensive images will be removed from the web site.
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27.03.20096 must see funnys on Google Maps
Google Street view is a candid look at the environment that surrounds us. The idea of street view is to give the user an idea of what it would look
like if they were standing on the street. It's a simple idea that usually results in a great way to get a look at a destination before you
arrive. Sometimes, however, the Google cameras capture things that are not so ordinary. Below are six gems that have been unearthed on Google Maps.
They are posted in no particular order but all are rare sightings much like the Google van hitting Bambi.
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30.01.2009Japanese group wants Google to stop Street View
Google received another request on Friday to stop its Street View service, this time from a group of Japanese lawyers and professors who say the
service violates their right to privacy. Talking to Reuters, Yasuhiko Tajima, a professor of constitutional law at Sophia University in Tokyo, said,
"We strongly suspect that what Google has been doing deeply violates a basic right that humans have. It is necessary to warn society that an IT giant
is openly violating privacy rights, which are important rights that the citizens have, through this service." Tajima heads the Campaign Against
Surveillance Society, a Japanese civilian group that wants Google to stop providing its Japanese Street View service and to delete all saved images.
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19.12.2008Google must re-shoot all Street View pictures in Japan
Citizens of Japan have won a fight against Google to get them to re-shoot all of the photos taken and shown via Google Street View. The argument
stemmed around the idea of invasion of privacy, specifically that the cameras could take pictures over the fences around private homes. Google agreed
to re-shoot all of the photos taken for Google Street View of Japanese cities and will lower the height of its cameras to avoid taking photos at
heights above private fences. Google has also agreed to blur out license plates numbers as well to further adhere to the complaints of the citizens.
"We admit that there were concerns about the service. ...
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19.05.2009Google Maps street view rips hole in space-time fabric
Google Maps street view is a massive undertaking by Google. The idea of bringing a street level view to almost every major road in the country is
nothing to scoff at and then to do it on a global scale is almost unfathomable. While nearly everyone applauds Google's efforts for taking on
such a massive project it's only a matter of time until something goes wrong or something gets captured that we all can enjoy. This week it
appears that Google has managed to rip a hole in the space-time fabric that we call life. In the two pictures below you can clearly see that a
quantum leap has been perfected by Google.
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09.02.2009Minnesota private community says no to Google Street View
In the latest example of "opt-out" in action, an entire Minnesota town demanded that Google take down Street View imagery of its municipality,
and the search giant duly complied...
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03.06.2008Google Adds Detail to European
Maps
Google silently added
street-level mapping
capabilities to a number of
countries in Europe Tuesday,
bringing its local search
service across the Atlantic.
Users can search for specific
street names and addresses, as
well as pull up reviews of
hotels and even find metro and
train stations...
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26.04.2006Google's Street View expansion brings privacy jitters
Google's expansion of the street view option for its mapping service into another eight US cities has renewed privacy concerns over what it
photographs...
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13.12.2007Wall Street Journal Digital Network Teams With Microsoft
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network today announced an agreement in which Microsoft Corp. becomes the exclusive third-party provider of contextual
and paid search advertising for its network of sites, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com and
others.
Relevant and targeted digital advertising is important to our business and to the quality of the experience that we
deliver to our users, said Gordon McLeod, president of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. Microsofts state-of-the-art advertising platform
will enable us to dramatically improve our revenues from this key sector, and we look forward to working together.
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29.01.2008Google street view car pulled over by the cops for speeding
There are certain things you don't do in your car when your employer is paying you to drive around. One thing people may still do even if they
are being paid to drive around is speed; maybe not excessively or on purpose but it happens. If you are paid to drive around with a huge camera
recording all your events attached to the roof of your car you should probably obey all traffic laws to the best of your ability. Not so is the case
for one Google street view driver who got pulled over by the cops.
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06.04.2009In Wake of Credit Crisis, Technology Critical for Growth, Microsoft Leader Reports from SIFMA Wall Street Conference
Q&A: U.S. Capital Markets Industry Solutions Director Craig Saint-Amour discusses how Microsoft and its partners are demonstrating a variety of
innovative solutions that can help Wall Street firms drive better customer experiences and thrive despite the tough economic environment...
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11.06.2008Amid controversy, Google Street View gets approval in UK
Despite strong apprehension from EU legislators toward Google's Street View mapping technique, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has
reportedly found Google's privacy safeguards acceptable and will allow the company's roving 360 degree cameras to record British streets for its
mapping service...
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