Tag Archives : Google Earth

An agency of the Chinese government launched a satellite mapping service, designed to compete with the popular satellite mapping service Google Earth, which may represent new problems for Google’s operations in mainland China. Google and China are at odds since last year, when a serious attack of hackers originating in the Asian country took [...]

One of the foremost wireless carriers in the U.S, T-Mobile has now finally come out with some really interesting details for the highly anticipated G2 handset, that the company had officially announced a couple of weeks ago, but refused to divulge any details about. With this latest announcement, T-Mobile has now unveiled the curtain from the specifications [...]

Since the launch of Google Earth, this incredible applications has fast become one of the most useful tools on the Internet, that not only allows users to view the earth in an altogether different way, but has also been indispensable tool for numerous aid agencies during times of natural calamities, such as that of the earthquake in Haiti. Now, if you [...]

The cars of Google‘s Street View service, passing in Staffordshire, England, ended up shooting the first kiss of a young couple, who then had their intimate moment posted on the Internet. This weekend, however, the news site CNET has discovered that the photo had been removed from the internet, with the message “This image is no longer [...]

France, Russia, and the US deny the existence of yet another nuclear deal with nuclearization-belligerent Iran after the country defied all opposition to its uranium enrichment program. Iran has asserted and now greenlights efforts to upgrade its uranium resources. Edward Yeranian of VOANews.com reports that ‘Iran’s nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar [...]

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Google Earth and Google Maps have been some of the most popular applications online, providing users with high resolution satellite imagery. These images have been taken by the GeoEye-1 satellite, launched by the satellite imaging firm, GeoEye. Google’s partnership with GeoEye had been seen as a tactical move by the internet behemoth to give DigitalGlobe, [...]

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” were the words of NASA astronaut, Neil Armstrong, when he along with Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts landed and placed their first steps on the moon. Now, on the 40th anniversary of man’s landing on the moon, Google released an addition to its Google Earth application, [...]

Looks like thieves are adapting the unique ways of stealing these days. As if to keep up pace with the modern times, Tom Berge used Google Earth to steal roofs of buildings. This is quite an unprecedented way of thieving. This 27 year old builder used Google Earth, which shows aerial photographs of towns across the world. He then tracked his potential [...]

The budding team of scientists from the IES La Bisbal school in Spanish Catalonia successfully completed a rather interesting science project. These four Spanish students managed to take a couple of incredibly beautiful images of earth with a £ 56 camera and a latex balloon from above 20 miles. Under the guidance of their teacher Jordi Fanals Oriol [...]