Google CEO Maps Missions, Stays on Message
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Put Google CEO Eric Schmidt on stage with SEW's Danny Sullivan and you get an entertaining and enlightening glimpse into the soul of the world's favorite search machine.
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British billionaire Richard  Branson said on Wednesday he was hoping to trace Steve Fossett  through a satellite mapping service offered by Internet data  provider Google as the search for the missing U.S. adventurer  resumed.
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Reg Review Top notch sat nav for Windows handsets
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By Mary Anne Ostrom/  The search for Jim Gray, the missing Microsoft engineer, was extended to Mexico on Wednesday, said Mike Olson, an Oracle vice president and a spokesman for the private search effort. Olson said U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican officials have been notified.
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Q Most of the online mapping sites can't find my home address. Is there a company I can contact to fix this?
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Blog: Google launches Maps feature that lets you customize driving directions by clicking and dragging the route to other spots on the map.
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(InfoWorld) - OracleÂ is integrating one of its applications with Google's mapping service to help service providers locate customers more quickly. On Tuesday, Oracle said it had integrated the API (application programming interface) for Google Maps for Enterprise with the Field Service piece of Oracle E-Business Suite 12. Field Service helps companies manage the process of sending staff on service calls and predict when those employees will arrive at the customer sites. Using the Google Maps API, dispatchers should now also be able to find routes for their field service personnel to reach customers more quickly. At the same time, technicians can get a better sense of the location of their jobs by viewing those destinations on Google's map or its satellite images Bringing together content from a number of sources in an application or a Web site is proving very popular among software vendors and is often referred to as a mashup. Google Maps is one of the most frequently used APIs in mashups since it adds a useful visual element to applications. Oracle began theÂ rollout of E-Business Suite 12Â in January. Other new features in Field Service 12 include support for tasks lasting multiple days and the ability to track customers confirming their service appointments. There's also an administrator's portal to assist schedulers in handling jobs assigned to in-house or to third parties across time zones and geographies. The Google Maps integration is also available for Oracle Field Service 11.5.10. In other Oracle news, the vendor announced Symantec is an enterprise storage management partner for its Unbreakable Linux support program. The program providesÂ support for users of Red Hat's Enterprise LinuxÂ distribution, regardless of whether they are Oracle software users, at aggressive pricepoints. Oracle and Symantec have certified Symantec's Veritas data center software with Oracle Enterprise Linux and guaranteed to provide enterprise-level support for both the storage and the Linux offerings. The agreement covers six Veritas products -- Storage Foundation 5.0, Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0, Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0, Cluster Server 5.0, NetBackup 6.0 Client and i3. While Oracle claims demand is growing for its support program, the vendor has yet to provide precise figures on user uptake. In March,Â Oracle CEO Larry Ellison saidÂ publicly that Unbreakable Linux had got off to a "very strong start" and committed his company to building a Linux business, while cautioning that such a process would take time. Â
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(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ introduced a feature to its mapping service on Wednesday that allows people to create their own customized maps, by adding information such as the location of cheap gas stations or property for sale. The information comes from what Google calls maplets, which are small applications created by Google or a third-party developer that combine Google Maps with some other service, such as a real estate listing or traffic report. Users who set up a Google My Maps account can then create their own customized maps, adding as many maplets as they want. They can also draw directions on their maps, and attach photographs or videos of specific locations using services such as Google's YouTube and PicasaWeb. The resulting maps can be kept private or made public and indexed in Google's search engine, according to Google's My Maps page. People can also upload maps to Google Earth in the form of a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file, a technology for describing geographic coordinates. A Google official said last month that the company may eventually allow paid advertisements on its mapping service, where businesses would be able to create maps with some sponsored links. The ads would take the form of the pins seen on the maps today, with pop-up photos and text. It would be a way for both Google and businesses to earn more advertising revenue, which underpins much of Google's strength. Google has said it will give users some say in how many ads appear on its maps, so as to not be too intrusive. Â
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By CHRIS BLACKHURST AS I WRITE this, mid-morning, I check. I've already used Google more than 10 times today. Is there any other product quite like it, anything so ubiquitous, so taken for granted? There's the phone, but I can switch the network. Petrol? I never bother with the brand.
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Google has snapped up Bite associate director Annette Ryszkowska to fill a newly-created post within its Enterprise division.   Ryszkowska will take up the Google Enterprise head of comms post at the end of the summer.
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(InfoWorld) - In a sneak preview Thursday, Google revealed how it plans to integrate its AdSense advertising platform with Google Maps, meaning some push-pin graphics used at the maps site could be turned into mini-advertisements. Google has not set a time frame for when the feature will be ready to go public, said Andrew Eland, a Google software developer based in Zurich who gave a presentation at Google's Developer Day in London. Eland spoke of the feature during a talk aboutÂ Google's new "Mapplets" feature, which lets Web developers display content and build applications within Google Maps. A Mapplet uses two APIs -- Gadgets and Maps APIs. Mapplets can be used show content, such as a description of a building or landmark, and a specific photo and display those in a pop-up window when a push-pin graphic is passed over on Maps. Around those customized locations on the map, other paid-for points could be marked. Eland showed an example of a hotel advertisement that had its own icon rather than a push-pin. When the icon is passed over, information appears in the pop-up window. If the link is followed by a user on the Mapplet, "you receive a share of the revenue," giving Web site developers another way to make money for their sites, Eland said. Users would be able to set a limit on the number of sponsored ads on their customized map and also turn the feature off, Eland said. "This is something you will completely control," he said. Google's AdSense program, where Web site publishers display targeted text ads related to the content on their site, has underpinned much of the company's phenomenal increases in revenue.
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Common sense is still the key for San Francisco's new SMS eemergency alerts.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as &quot;Street View,&quot; but it looks a bit like &quot;Candid Camera&quot; as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google has launched a program to help nonprofits use Google Earth to raise awareness of their missions and better demonstrate what they do
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30-second walk becomes 10.4km epic road trip Here's the scenario: you're in Oz's fine city of Sydney and you need to get from the Shelbourne Hotel at 200 Sussex Street to Google's headquarters across the road at 201 Sussex Street. Naturally, this being a potentially complex manoevre, it's probably best to consult Google Maps Australia to get the optimum route.â¦
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Google Transit Adds 5 New Cities Google Transit, the Google Maps &#038; Public Transportation Mashup, has expanded outside of Portland, Oregon to 5 new destinations.  The new Google Transit destinations include Tampa, Florida, Honolulu, Eugene, Oregon, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. Most of the towns on this list make great sense for Google Transit given their existing superb public [...]
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Viva Street View and Viva Las Vegas! It didn't take you lot long to find something noteworthy on Google Maps' new Street View facility - now offering ground-level, photographic panoramas of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, and New York.â¦