Beijing: A Chinese man kidnapped 23 years ago at the age of five and sold to a family 1,500 km from his home, has been reunited with his family again, all thanks to Google Maps.
28-year-old Luo Gang from southwest China's Sichuan province, abducted and taken to Fujian province 23 years ago, has finally found his way home after spending years trying to work out where he came from, the South China Morning Post reported.
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05:15 PM, May 18, 2013
San Francisco: Google used its annual conference for software developers, Google I/O, to unveil several new products, services and features. They include enhancements for online games, maps, search, music and photos and are meant to help the company cement its role in people's technological lives. Here's a look at some of the announcements made at Wednesday's keynote at Google I/O. Music streaming: All Access will blend songs you have already...
08:38 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: BJP MP Tarun Vijay on Wednesday again accused Google of violating India's mapping laws by showing vital military installations with annotations and asked the government to take steps to access the data the company possessed. Vijay, who raised the issue in a special mention in the Rajya Sabha, called upon the central government to probe the issue. Vijay said the recce of any area was the key to...
04:54 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Google Mapathon event case, in which the US internet giant allegedly violated Indian mapping laws, has been sent to the home ministry with the recommendation of a probe by the CBI cyber crime cell, said BJP MP Tarun Vijay. "Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has informed that the case against Google India for violating Indian mapping laws has been recommended to be investigated by the cyber crime...
10:58 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: As Delhi Police investigates whether Google violated rules in holding a competition that asked users to add information about their local areas for its online map, the US Internet company on Saturday said it had responded to queries raised by Survey of India more than 10 days back and hasn't heard from it yet. "The Survey of India contacted Google regarding the Mapathon contest on March 22, and...
06:35 PM, Apr 06, 2013
The government should book Google for "violating" India's defence regulations on maps and force the company to surrender its "illegally stored" data to the Surveyor General of India, BJP MP Tarun Vijay says. ...
02:30 PM, Mar 24, 2013
The mountains on Google Maps include Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus and Everest Base Camp. ...
06:02 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Google launched its indoor maps feature in Singapore Tuesday, making the city state the second country in Asia to have it. ...
05:27 PM, Feb 19, 2013
With the view to further improve Google Maps for India, Google has announced India's first ever mapping competition - Mapathon 2013 - which starts on February 12 and culminates on March 25, 2013. ...
03:09 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Google Inc.'s map with more details of North Korea has gone live. Google Maps shows details of North Korea, including streets, parks, monuments and train stops in the capital of Pyongyang. ...
01:25 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The chasm between Google and Microsoft seems to have grown a little wider, and it seems Google has cut off Windows Phone users from Google Maps completely. Windows Phone users are complaining that trying to visit the web version of Google Maps redirected them instead to Google's homepage. ...
04:02 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Rape statistics from National Crime Records Bureau's Crime in India 2011 report plotted on an interactive map of India. ...
04:55 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Google, the global internet service giant, is soon going to start operations on its data center based in Asia. ...
04:14 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Scientists have created the first ever map of how the brain organises the thousands of images that come flooding in through our eyes every day. ...
12:14 PM, Dec 26, 2012
New Delhi: Less than a week after its release on iOS devices, Google Maps is racking up an impressive download count. The app has surpassed 10 million downloads so far, according to Google SVP of Commerce and Local Jeff Huber. The milestone was announced by Huber over the company's Google+ page. According to Huber, the app crossed the 10 million download count in less than 48 hours of its release....
05:17 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Bangalore: Apple Inc is in early discussions with Foursquare Labs Inc to integrate local data into the company's mapping application, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the talks. Apple launched its own mapping service in early September, replacing popular Google Maps, which previously came pre-loaded in Apple devices, but the service contained embarrassing errors and drew fierce criticism. Google's mapping tool has since returned to the iPhone,...
11:30 AM, Dec 18, 2012
New York: Like a lot of people, I was happy and relieved to see Google Maps return to the iPhone. I'd been frustrated with the Apple mapping software that had replaced it three months ago. For one thing, it didn't have public transit directions, a feature important for New Yorkers like me. Apple's mapping app also wasn't as good as the old Google app in finding destinations. I often had...
03:55 PM, Dec 15, 2012
San Francisco: Google Maps have found their way back to the iPhone. The world's most popular online mapping system returned on late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps' iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own maps into the latest version of its mobile operating system. Apple's maps proved to be far inferior...
01:35 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Canberra: Australian police have warned travellers off using Apple's troubled iPhone mapping software after several motorists became stuck in a snake-infested, desert corner of the country while using their phone for directions. Police in southeast Victoria state said they had been forced to rescue a number of motorists who had become stuck for up to 24 hours "without food or water" after being directed to the arid Murray Sunset National...
07:17 AM, Dec 11, 2012
