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One of the salient features of Google Maps, Street View, that has made the service such a phenomenal success, has yet again landed Google Inc. in trouble, and this time with German authorities. With the recent launch of the Street view feature in Germany, Google had intended to provide the users with high resolution images to aid them in navigation. [...]

After returning to be charged by the U.S. Congress about leaks of information from users of social-networking advertising, Facebook has ensured that uses encryption to handle this type of privacy protection. Facebook aims to solve the latest problem of leakage of user data from third-party applications, such as Farmville and FrontierVille, encrypting [...]

Google is all set to introduce an all new feature in its highly acclaimed and most widely used mapping service, Google Maps. The all new feature will now provide the users with routes and direction for those who prefer to travel by bikes. Recently, an online petition was launched to compel Google to add the biking direction feature in Google Maps. The [...]

With the immense success of Google;s mapping service, called Google Maps, that has proven its worth time and time again and has found its way into the mobile devices as well is now all set to receive an all new feature called, ‘Store View’, in which Google could be adding the interiors of selected retail stores to the Google Maps database. The unconfirmed [...]

Microsoft Corporation is doing all it can to try to ensure that, someday its efforts pay off and perhaps the oldest internet entity might just be able to give a solid nudge to its arch rival, Google Inc., the search engine giant that has virtually taken over the world wide web. Keeping the stride and spirit alive, Microsoft has announced the launch [...]

The street view feature that has made the Google Maps an immense success requires Google vans and cars equipped with cameras to roam the streets of the locations and gather data that is then used in Google Maps. However, the street view drive by Google has landed in trouble as the Swiss privacy watchdog is all set to sue the internet behemoth on the [...]