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Google India’s Street View project under police scanner
It looks like the Bangalore Police has some objection to Google’s Street View project in India. Just a few days after starting the ambitious project to enable street view imagery in India, Google had to suspend the project as the Bangalore police has some objections. The project has not been shut down, but will remain…
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Google Street View Soon In India, First in Bangalore
So the cars we spotted earlier across India may not really be the "Street View" cars, they could have been just collecting WiFi triangulation data only. As reported on the Google India blog today, starting today tomorrow (27th May 2011), the Google Street View cars and a few Google Trikes (modified indian rickshaw with a…
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Google Street View Could Soon Be Real In India
We’ve cited the Google Street View cars in various major cities in India before. Now we’ve recently captured them going around the streets of Hyderabad. Here’re some pictures up close. From what we hear, they’re running this operation right from Maharashtra (MH license plates).
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Google Street View High-Tech Tricycles are very much real, called “Trike”
Remember the High Tech Google street view tricycles we told you about? Apparently, the project was very much real. Google is now using these high tech bikes (which they call “trike”) to capture street view for places inaccessible by their street view cars. This includes places like university campuses, beach boardwalks, bike trails etc. Google…
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Google Street View High-Tech Tricycles
Google is apparently trying to add high tech tricycles to its fleet of street view vehicles. The bike was spotted in a local San Diego bike shop: The bike is carrying a generator and will arguably be pretty heavy. It might be difficult for people in the US to pedal this thing, however, it will…
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iPhone firmware 2.2 to have Google street view
Apple has seeded the iPhone firmware 2.2 beta 2 to developers. This version fully supports the Google street view feature in Maps.app. There were hidden APIs related to street view in Beta 1 but it wasn’t enabled. This version, however, has them fully enabled. Also, apparently, the seed notes indicate that Line-in audio accessories are…
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Google silently launches "See Inside" in India
I was browsing for restaurants earlier this week and saw that Google has started adding "See Inside" in India too. Despite setbacks to Google from providing a real Street View for Indian cities, Google has managed to innovate. “See Inside” is a Street View for inside restaurants, shops and other establishments. There are already tons…
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XPeria Pro, Neo And the PlayStation Phone Announced
If you’re wondering why Sony’s advertising those year old XPeria 10 in India, Here’s why. As usual whenever a new product is announced in the US, older products are dumped to India(3rd world countries). This time it’s Sony which announced the latest in the XPeria series – XPeria Play, XPeria Pro and XPeria Neo at…
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Mobile Safari Gyroscope Demo shows the Future of Google Maps
While making their new iPhone app 360 Panarama, Occipital discovered that Mobile Safari can actually utilize the Gyroscope for navigation in some webpages. They created a demo that can be seen on your iPhone 4 or iPod Touch 4G as long as they have been updated to iOS 4.2. Just visit the website occip.it/pt3dmqna from…
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iPhone firmware 2.2 update available now
The latest iPhone firmware update 2.2 is out now. Its a 246 MB download and if you have the latest iTunes installed, it should prompt you to download and install it the next time you tether your iPhone. Here is a quick list of new features in 2.2: Google Maps Street View Public transit and…
