Remember Google’s Street View Trike? Well it seems that Google, now looking to offer “slope side” views of several winter Olympic events in Vancouver, has developed a “snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on the Whistler Blackcomb Mountains”. Google is compiling views of Vancouver and the 2010 [...]
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Google’s Street View Heads to the Mountains of Vancouver
February 10th, 2010
Posted in Google, Internet 
Tags: Google, Google Maps, Street View, trike, Winter Olympics 
1 Comment »Google vs. Microsoft vs. Apple
January 27th, 2010
There’s nothing like a good corporate battle. While potentially costly to the participants, the benefits to consumers include lower prices, better, and more diverse products. This competition is the foundation upon which the capitalist world is built, and spurs the innovation that drives society forward.
As worldwide adoption and usage of computers and the Internet [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Technology Tags: Apple, Bing, Chrome, Chrome OS, DROID, Google, Google Docs, Google Maps, iPhone, iPod, Microsoft, Nexus One, OS X, Windows, ZuneHD 3 Comments »Google’s Model Your Town Competition…A Great Prize for a Great Cause
December 1st, 2009
Bored? Looking for a cause? Well here’s your chance to leave your mark on the world…quite literally. In an effort to accelerate the rate at which towns and cities are modeled in 3D within Google Earth, Google is sponsoring a competition in which anyone can participate. Using free online 3D sketching tools, such as SketchUp and Building [...]
Posted in Google, Internet Tags: Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google model your town 1 Comment »Google Maps Navigation: This changes everything…
October 28th, 2009
Today was a big day in the world of wireless mobile devices. Verizon Wireless is expecting to begin sales of the $200 (with contract) Motorolo DROID, the first smartphone running the Google Andriod 2.0 open source operating system, on Nov. 6. This open source operating system for mobile devices is poised to become the new standard for mobile hardware and [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, GPS, Google, Internet, Phones Tags: Android 2.0, DROID, Garmin, Google Maps, Google Maps Navigator, GPS, NAVTEQ, smartphone 6 Comments »Monopoly City Streets: A new take on an old classic…
October 11th, 2009
Few games have spanned the generations like Monopoly. Created in the 1930’s and despite decades of technological change, advancements in toys, the advent of video games, and shortening attention spans, Hasbro’s classic and its many incarnations continue to reign as one of the most popular board games of all time.
Recently, the company began a massive, [...]
Posted in Google, Internet, Websites Tags: entertainment, games, Google, Google Maps, Hasbro, Monopoly City Streets 1 Comment »
