Articles tagged “google”

Google Street View gives destinations the opportunity to draw more visitors by providing detailed images of natural attractions that were previously difficult to capture online.

Google’s vertical ascent was the next stop in its mapping conquest that started with roads and progressed to include natural wonders and indoors. Destinations can hope for an increase in interest in monuments that can be hyped with the online views.

Unlikely the deal will get tripped up in anti-trust, Waze is too small to have ever become a material competitor, and its elimination from the market doesn't change much from competitive scenario.

Google's Waze purchase will be scrutinized closely from a number of angles, but the most important one in the long run may likely be sceptical users wondering just what they're doing with all that data about their movements.

In this new world, multi-brand strategy is clearly how big Internet companies want to operate, partly to not mess with the DNA of the startups they're buying.

If accurate, it's good news for Waze. Especially since the app's appetite for data and battery power has become a turn off for many of the early adopters.

Digital and especially mobile maps have made us heavily dependent on them, but it doesn't have to be all negative: besides navigation, maps give us a sense of place, and then it is up to us where we go from there.

Many of the components of self-driving cars, such as detection features when a pedestrian gets in the way, are already present in today's vehicles. Yes, there's a lot more testing that's needed before we wave the checkered flag to welcome self-driving cars. Are they going to be hacker-proof? Then again, not much is.

Still early in use cases being defined for Google Glass, when it comes to air travel. Treating Glass like how you would treat your mobile device usage would seem to be the most common use case, like here.

All business travelers want instantaneous information when keeping track of several flights, reservations, and meetings. According to this reviewer, Google Glass does all of that without travelers ever having to take their hands off the wheel.