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: 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: 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. "Getting every inch of India mapped by illegally inviting people to send the data for their US-based servers presents a grave danger to the security and poses a challenge to the Indian state," Tarun Vijay...
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
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
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
New Delhi: Google is adding 400,000 kilometres of roads from around the world to Google Maps Street View in what is its biggest update ever. With this Google is doubling the number of its Street View special collections. With this update Google has added more countries to Street View. Users can now explore Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan or Catherine Palace in Russia right on their device screens. No...
06:58 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Fremont: Apple's new maps app came out the day I started a 2,243-mile road trip through four states. As complaints about it trickled in and Apple's CEO apologised, I was left wondering whether people were using the same app I was. Although it's not flawless or as good as Google's maps app on Android phones, Apple's new offering on the iPhone got me where I needed to go - for...
01:51 PM, Oct 06, 2012
San Francisco: Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook apologised Friday to customers frustrated with glaring errors in its new Maps service and, in an unusual move for the consumer giant, directed them to rival services such as Google Inc's Maps instead. The rare apology follows Apple's launch of its own mapping service earlier this month, when it began selling the iPhone 5 and rolled out iOS 6, the highly anticipated...
01:57 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New York: Apple CEO Tim Cook apologised on Friday for the company's error-ridden new mobile mapping service, pledging to improve the application installed on tens of millions of smartphones and, in an unusual mea culpa, inviting frustrated consumers to turn to the competition. In a letter posted online Friday, Cook said Apple "fell short" of its own expectations. "Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the...
01:42 AM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Reports suggest that Apple had no other option left but to come up with its own home-grown Maps in iOS 6. According to AllThingsD, Apple "felt it had no choice but to replace Google Maps with its own, because of a disagreement over a key feature: Voice-guided turn-by-turn driving directions." Google has been offering spoken turn-by-turn navigation in its Android Maps for a long time, but the service...
03:17 PM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: While Apple is trying hard to fix the issues with Apple Maps in iOS 6 to point out correctly the places on the earth's surface, Google is taking users the depths of the oceans with its first underwater panoramic images in Google Maps. "With these vibrant and stunning photos you dont have to be a scuba diver"or even know how to swim"to explore and experience six of the...
02:42 PM, Sep 26, 2012
