Google Earth Outreach Targets Nonprofits
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Program offers mapping software, services free to nonprofit organizations for promotions.
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Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc, said on Thursday it is expanding beyond funding for alternative energy to focus on projects in health and combating poverty and climate change.
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Internet sleuths using satellite imaging software such as Google Earth have joined the hunt for missing adventurer Steve Fossett, officials said Tuesday.
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Google Inc. has introduced several widgets designed to help non-technical users persoanlize maps with weather and other information.
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Geotagging could spur a new generation of services.
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DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery  for Google Inc.'s  interactive mapping program Google  Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the  accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
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Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world&#39;s most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own &quot;Don&#39;t be Evil&quot; code.
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Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc., has teamed up with the Soros Economic Development Fund and Omidyar Network to fund a $17 million company that will invest in small- and medium-size business in India.
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Google Earth and the Discovery Channel have worked together to bring &#8220;sunrise on demand.&#8221;  The two have introduced a new layer on Google Earth which lets users view sunrises in certain areas around the globe.  More from Google &#038; Discovery Networks on the Google Blog: Now there&#8217;s a Google Earth layer that brings the sun&#8217;s ascent [...]
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Unlike most charities, GoogleÂs new philanthropy will be for-profit, greatly increasing its range and flexibility.
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Google Inc. said it is investing $25 million to harness the power of information and technology to fight poverty, global warming and health threats.
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The Google Earth Blog (not owned by Google) reports that Nasa has released some new image overlay &#038; visualization data for Google Earth: NASA continues to add some great visualizations for overlaying in Google Earth. This time they have added some data again from MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer).  As recently reported, you can get near real-time [...]
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Planet information NASA has called on the omnipresence of Google to help it manage the profluence of data it expects to splurge forth from its Moon and Mars missions.â¦
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Blog: Google street-level view on maps can help San Franciscans avoid parking tickets by remotely monitoring street signs
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Gaia, which bills itself as &#8220;an attempt to reverse engineer famous Google Earth and implement its functionality in open, portable, customizable and extendable way,&#8221; recently published the cease and desist letter it received from Michael T. Jones, Chief Technologist for Google Earth. Mr. Jones writes that he and his team &#8220;are concerned that you may not [...]
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Google has aggregated what it&#8217;s calling a &#8220;Geographic Web Layer&#8221; in Google Earth. It&#8217;s a collection of photos and informational content from Wikipedia, Panoramio and user-generated content from the Google Earth user community. Here&#8217;s more from the Official Google Blog. We&#8217;ve taken the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and made a [...]
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By Rhodri Marsden  Is Google Earth currently the biggest threat to productivity in the workplace?   Something of a rhetorical question, this one, and there's no doubting that hours lost to idle internet browsing is a concern for businesses.