With Maps Navigation, Google Puts Dedicated GPS Makers on a Road to Nowhere
Google is moving into your market. For tech companies, few words are more frightening, and yesterday we saw why. The mere announcement of Google Maps Navigation sent shares of established GPS device makers like Garmin and TomTom into an ugly downward spiral.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Apple in Extreme Mapover?
The deal went unnoticed until this week, but Apple evidently bought mapping outfit Placebase this past July in an acquisition that may have undermined its relationship with Google, which provides mapping technology for the iPhone.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Google: Embrace, Improve, Extinguish
Embrace, improve and extinguish. That’s what Google has done to search, Web advertising, digital mapping and the like; now it plans to do it to online encyclopedias as well.
Yesterday the company announced Knol (defined as a “unit of knowledge”) , its improvement on the social encyclopedia. With it, the company hopes to encourage experts on [...]
U.K. Map Firm Locates Microsoft Acquisition Fund
“The secret of success is: Start 12 years ago.” That’s how Multimap Founder and Chief Executive Sean Phelan once described the digital-mapping business. And he’s probably right. Of course, there’s another secret to success as well: acquire a business that started 12 years ago.
Which is what Microsoft did today when it purchased Multimap for a [...]
Monday, October 1, 2007
Nokia Bank Account Coordinates Added to Navteq Database
It might seem like a lot of money–$8.1 billion–to pay for a company whose reported second-quarter net income was just $40.9 million on revenue of $202.3 million. Unless you happen to be the world’s largest cellphone provider. And you believe the company in question to be the key to your success in the location-based services [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
