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IntoMobile  May 02 13 :

Verizon Galaxy Note II Receives Android 4.1.2 Update Today -

Verizon Galaxy Note 2 owners, get ready for Android 4.1.2! Verizon has started rolling out the update today, which will bring some new features and security fixes to the device.
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Silicon Alley Insider  May 01 13 :

Ad Agency Shows Off Bloody Showers And Men Getting Stuffed Down Toilets With New Google Street View Feature -

While some companies are using Google Business Photos' new feature (which allows people to pay to show office interiors on Google Street View) to boast open seating areas, cool bike racks, and office bars, some smart alecky ad agencies are taking it to the extreme.
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Silicon Alley Insider  Apr 21 13 :

8 Apps That Are Ruining My Life (AAPL, GOOG) -

Maybe I'm a closet technophobe or maybe I'm an idealist to a fault, but there are certain apps that are slowly ruining my life.
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TechCrunch  Apr 16 13 :

Polar's Sticky Polling App Gets Stickier With Its Latest Update, Closes In On 8M Total Votes -

The overall landscape of mobile apps is an interesting one, with most of the top free titles on Apple’s App Store being games or services pushed by massive companies like Twitter (Vine) or Google (Maps).
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Google's New Place Dashboard Does Geo-Lookups -

Earlier this month, Google pushed out a new design for the Google Places dashboard, which is only available to U.
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Google Maps Bug Won't Hide Your Address -

A Google Business Help thread has complaints that when you select not to show your business address in your Google Maps listing, it still shows it.
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GottaBeMobile.com  Apr 11 13 :

Out with Google and In with Yahoo, What Apple’s New Partnership Means for iOS 7? -

Out with Google and In with Yahoo, What Apple’s New Partnership Means for iOS 7? is a post by Chuong Nguyen from Gotta Be Mobile.
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TheNextWeb  Apr 09 13 :

Teehan+Lax Labs Creates Hyperlapse Videos Using Just Google Maps Street View -

Today, Teehan+Lax Labs unveiled a pretty amazing experiment that takes all of those flat Street View images from Google Maps and creates a hyperlapse videos out of it.
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Boy Genius Report  Apr 05 13 :

Google uses Facebook Home announcement to plug other Google services -

Whether or not Google (GOOG) is actually happy that Facebook (FB) has just launched software intended to take over Android home screens is certainly up for debate.
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Boy Genius Report  Apr 04 13 :

Apple patent suggests ‘Street View’ could be coming to iOS Maps -

An Apple (AAPL) patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday suggests that the company may be looking to create a navigation system based on panoramic imagery, similar to Google’s (GOOG) “Street View” technology.
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Apple Insider   Apr 04 13 :

Apple patent filing suggests work on 'Street View' mapping technology -

An Apple patent application discovered on Thursday hints that the company is looking to deploy on mobile devices a virtual navigation system based on panoramic location data, much like the popular "Street View" seen in Google Maps.
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TUAW  Mar 28 13 :

Apple hiring managers to improve iOS Maps 'Ground Truth' -

Last year's release of Apple's Maps app in iOS 6 was met with a number of complaints about the accuracy of maps and directions generated by the app, leading to a public apology from CEO Tim Cook and a clamor for Google Maps when that app was released several months later.
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Ubergizmo  Mar 27 13 :

Google Glass To Be Made In USA? -

Google Glass certainly lent an air to an overactive imagination when it was first revealed to the world at last year’s Google I/O, although Google Glass is far from a finished product back then.
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CrunchGear  Mar 27 13 :

Google Launches Maps Engine Lite, Makes It Easy To Create Advanced Custom Maps -

For years now, Google has offered its Google Maps Engine to enterprises that want to visualize their custom geospacial data.
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CrunchGear  Mar 25 13 :

Google Adds Trail Maps For 100 Additional Ski Resorts To Google Maps -

Winter is almost over, but that isn’t stopping Google from expanding its list of ski runs on Google Maps.
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Google Shows Results for Similar Searches -

Google has a new feature that shows results for different versions of your query. Usually Google removes one or two keywords from your query or replaces them with similar keywords if there aren't many relevant search results for your original query.
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Engadget  Mar 23 13 :

WSJ: Apple takes WifiSlam indoor-GPS mapping startup under its wing for $20M -

Watch out, Google Maps for Android, it looks like Apple's iOS Maps may soon be entering the building -- when it comes to indoor GPS tracking anyway.
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TechCrunch  Mar 19 13 :

Canva Raises $3 Million To Make Design Accessible To Everyone -

Canva, a stealthy Sydney-based startup building an online design platform, is today announcing having raised $3 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners, InterWest Partners, 500 Startups, and angels including Google Maps founder Lars Rassmusen, Bill Tai (Charles River Ventures), and Ken Goldman (CFO of Yahoo).
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Phandroid  Mar 18 13 :

Google Maps Street View now showing mountain tops -

After Google opened everyone’s eyes up to some of the more interesting depths of the ocean, the company wants to take us to higher altitudes.
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