Google buys digital mapping company
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Keyhole maintains a multi-terabyte database of digital images of geographic locations, culled from satellite and aerial snapshots.
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Google Inc. has agreed to buy messaging security company Postini Inc. for US$625 million in a move to increase the appeal of Google's hosted applications among big businesses, the companies announced on Monday.
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What's the best way to provide digital driving directions to the likes of Google and Garmin? May the best map win. By Wilson Rothman from Wired magazine.
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Blog: Google has acquired a company that specializes in aerial photography, including its own digital camera system and aircraft to house it.
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Google will introduce a new feature that lets users create personalized maps which plot the locations of everything from cheap gas locally to the latest earthquakes worldwide.
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Loose change for Grand Central Google has acquired GrandCentral Communications, a California-based provider of web-based communications solutions.â¦
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Google Inc. is buying e-mail security specialist Postini Inc. for $625 million, fortifying the Internet search leader's effort to sell online software services to corporate customers seeking alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s long-dominant products.
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US Internet security start-up firm GreenBorder, which specializes in using &quot;virtualization&quot; to create safe zones for online activities, revealed on Tuesday it has been bought by Google.
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InfoWorld - Google on Tuesday acquired&#160;Peakstream, a Redwood City, Calif., developer of&#160;software for multicore and parallel processors, the company said.
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'We will photograph everything' If you were getting worried that a full two weeks had passed without Google acquiring yet another company, you can now rest easy. Today, the lord of the acquisitions bagged ImageAmerica - a company that takes aerial photographs with its own airplanes and high-res cameras - as it looks to beef up imagery on its Google Earth and Google Maps services.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Google is partnering with Discovery Networks, the U.S. National Park Service, and others to enrich its Google Earth mapping application with text and multimedia about geographic locations. With its Featured Content for Google Earth, announced Wednesday, Google will provide links to articles, images, blog postings, and videos that inform about topics like the environment, cities, attractions, parks, and landmarks. Other partners include the United Nations Environmental Program and the Jane Goodall Institute. This is the latest in aÂ string of enhancementsÂ for Google Earth, one of the company's most popular products. In recent months, GoogleÂ ported the applicationÂ to Linux and the Mac OS and integrated it with the company's SketchUp 3D design tool. Google Earth's user interface was also overhauled and itsÂ index of images significantly expanded. Google Earth, lauded by users and industry experts, is a free, downloadable application that taps into a massive database of satellite images. Its video game-like interface lets users "fly" around the globe, zooming in and out of cities. Google acquired the software in 2004 when itÂ bought Keyhole. The Google Earth product family also includes more advanced, fee-based versions of the application designed for commercial uses.
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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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Google gets into the Web registration business.
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U.S. search engine giant Google Inc. has joined a group of 16 universities and national labs that is building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
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ADDISON, Texas, March 6  /PRNewswire/ -- FireScope, a leading developer of IT operations software, today announced it has added a mapping capability for its namesake IT operations management portal solution from Google(TM) Maps, one of the world's best known and most complete mapping systems.
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TomTom, the world's No. 1 maker of personal navigation devices, has increased its bid to $4.2 billion in cash for digital map provider Tele Atlas. TomTom announced it would immediately begin purchasing and acquiring 25.8 million Tele Atlas shares, which represent about 28.3 percent of the software provider's share capital.
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Search enabler Google says it has acquired digital mapping company Keyhole for an undisclosed sum. Keyhole maintains a multiterabyte database of digital images of geographic locations, culled from satellite and aerial snapshots.