Google’s main weapon against Apple in the mapping battle (aside from, you know… Experience) is its pioneering Street View. The company has been working its staff day and night to bring that feature to the mobile web version of Google Maps, but it’s still had time to fire off a massive update at the same time. Read more
As if you needed it, here’s another reason to turn your back on Apple Maps. Google has just added Street View to its Google Maps web app for iOS.
So that means you can plump yourself almost anywhere in the world and take a virtual wander, right on your phone.
Still finding faults with Apple Maps in iOS 6? It’s certainly got a way to go to match up to the mapping software it replaced. Still, if you are desperate to bring Google Maps back you can always go to the mobile site. And guess what? It’s about to get a lot more useful. Read more
The face blurring on YouTube to protect activists’ identities is the latest way Google is practising its ‘Don’t be evil’ pledge. But is it keeping to the motto in all areas of its business? Let’s take a look.
It turns out the Nexus Q home streamer has an easter egg. But it’s not the first time Google has played the prankster and slipped a hidden gem into one of its products or services.
Join us as we count down the best of the big G’s easter eggs, throwaway gags and secret tricks.
The next time three percent of Germans request that their buildings be made fuzzy in Google’s Street View they might want to think twice. Reports that Google fans are pelting some of the blurred-out homes with eggs are coming in from across the web. Eggs now, what’s next?
Google Maps is getting an update today, which includes new street view functions. The updates are subtle but mean that via your Android mobile, you can get a lot more in depth with the street view you’re exploring.
It’s the halfway point of the working day, so it’s time to stop what you’re doing, shut down those docs and leave the email mound to pile up: read on for everything that’s happened in tech, right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
