Dec 24th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Tonight's the night that every kid, big or small, has been waiting for since this time last year. It's the night that Santa takes to the skies and delivers toys to the world, and this being the 21st Century, it is now easier than ever to track the jolly man in the red suit. A host of high tech gadgets will be employed to make sure you know exactly when he'll be paying a visit to your neighborhood. ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Track Santa's Ride Tonight!
Dec 24th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Tonight's the night that every kid, big or small, has been waiting for since this time last year. It's the night that Santa takes to the skies and delivers toys to the world, and this being the 21st Century, it is now easier than ever to track the jolly man in the red suit. A host of high tech gadgets will be employed to make sure you know exactly when he'll be paying a visit to your neighborhood. ...Hot holiday deal - free 4GB Eye-Fi card with Google photo storage purchase
Dec 7th, 2009 at 9:45PM:
Normally, we reserve our deals for the daily gear deal lineup, but an announcement from Google and Eye-Fi this evening is worth its own article. The two have teamed up to offer a free 4GB Eye-Fi Home Video card when you purchase 200GB or more from Picasa web albums.
The Eye-Fi card turns your camera into a Wi-Fi enabled photo device, automatically uploading your photos to a variety of ...Pompeii now on Google Street View
Dec 4th, 2009 at 8:30AM: The ancient Roman city of Pompeii is the latest addition to Google Street View.
Available from Google's UNESCO World Heritage list of street views, it's the latest addition to a selection of famous sites that includes Stonehenge, Prague's historic center, and the Roman/Medieval Spanish town of Segovia.
Pompeii was a Roman provincial town near the Gulf of Naples in Italy. It was buried by a ...See Shamu and all of SeaWorld from the comfort of your desk
Dec 3rd, 2009 at 3:30PM: Everyone takes a lot of pictures when they go to SeaWorld, but Google Maps recently went and documented every street at SeaWorld parks in Orlando, San Antonio and San Diego, as well as Orlando's Discovery Cove and Aquatica for their Street View feature.
"Now, no matter where you are, you can enjoy an online experience of our parks including seeing their scope and diversity while planning ...
Google to immortalize Iraqi museum
Nov 25th, 2009 at 3:30PM: Google is taking Iraq's national museum global. Company CEO, Eric Schmidt, said Tuesday that Google is going to document what's in the museum and will share photographs of the war-torn countries museum holdings with the world. The museum, which reopened this year, was torn apart after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled in April 2003.
digg_url = ...Day in the Cloud goes live at 30,000 feet
Jun 24th, 2009 at 2:05PM: Earlier in the month, we told you about Virgin America and Google's Day in the Cloud Event. And yesterday, I let you know that I would be on board one of the competing flights to take part in the event at 30,000 feet. And that's exactly where I was this morning as I answered trivia questions, solved puzzles and joined thousands of people on Virgin America flights and on the ground competing to win ...Virgin America & Google host scavenger hunt at 30,000 feet
Jun 23rd, 2009 at 2:00PM: Some people are scared of flying. Others tolerate it. And people like me find it excruciatingly boring and go to sleep. But what if you could spend your time at cruising altitude competing against other travelers and people on the ground all over the United States in an online scavenger hunt? Well that's exactly what Virgin America is doing tomorrow. In order to make flying less boring (and to ...Virgin America and Google team up for "a day in the cloud" scavenger hunt
Jun 2nd, 2009 at 5:00PM: Virgin America and Google are teaming up for another world's first - an online puzzle challenge that can be played on the ground and in the air. Their "day in the cloud" is scheduled for June 24th and will let players on the ground compete with people flying with Virgin America. For this event, access to the Gogo Inflight WiFi service will be free. Prizes include free flights on Virgin America, ...Software quick look - Flightstats for Android
May 8th, 2009 at 7:30PM: Yesterday, the folks at Flightstats.com added the first Android compatible flight tracker to the Google Android market. For those of you not up to date on the latest and greatest in the smartphone world, Android is the operating system developed by Google that powers the T-Mobile G1 (and several other phones). Flightstats for Android offers several convenient travel features - live flight status, ...Internet search results show soldiers are thinking of home
Apr 29th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Life in Iraq isn't necessarily what you think. While there are tough conditions for those outside the gates, life on the large camps that shares some startling similarities with major U.S. military installations at home. On Camp Anaconda, for example, you can visit a library, shove some fast food fare into your mouth and burn your quads at the gym. Of course, the occasional mortar does get through ...Angry British mob chases Google out of their town
Apr 6th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Here in the US we are used to being able to zoom in on street level images of anything in our area. Google started mapping up and down our streets years ago, and it all happened with so little fanfare, that nobody really got the chance to complain. Things are different in the UK, where residents are beginning to complain quite vocally about the privacy invasion caused by the ability to get up ...Inspired by Google Earth - teenager paints 60ft penis on his roof
Mar 25th, 2009 at 10:30AM: Easily offended readers move along - this story involves juvenile humor and a massive painting of a penis. When 18 year old Roy McInnes watched a TV show about Google Earth, he decided to play a little prank on the photo snapping satellites. See, these camera satellites pass overhead, and take shots of your area. They don't care what they see, unless it is something deemed classified, in which ...
Google Streetview comes to Europe - the good and the bad
Mar 21st, 2009 at 12:00PM: Here in the US, we are used to having Google offer street level images of our country. Their cars have been driving around every town and city for several years, and have snapped millions of pictures. On March 18th, Google enabled imagery of The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Italy. Of course, not every city has been fully mapped, but the new images do mean you can do some ...Visit the Prado Museum from your computer
Feb 25th, 2009 at 12:00PM: Okay, people, Super Budget Travel time. You may not get that great museum smell, and you won't see Madrid out the windows, but you can now see hi res images of 14 of the artworks at the Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) on Google Earth. You can even see brushstrokes. Click here to try it. The video above shows you how they did it and how it all works. Kudos to the Prado for making their ...
Road test: Google public transit maps on the iPhone
Jan 23rd, 2009 at 10:00AM: The most recent firmware upgrade to the iPhone brought significant improvement to the mapping functionality, specifically with the addition of Street View and Public Transportation overlays. You've probably already seen Street View while browsing through neighborhoods on your local Google Maps computer. Basically it shows you what any (urban) storefront looks like from the street and is a good ...Google launches LIFE photo archive
Nov 20th, 2008 at 9:00AM: One of the best ways to travel without leaving your home is through photography. Pictures have the ability to draw us into new cities, cultures, and traditions, allowing us to discover worlds that were once unbeknown to our eyes. And now thanks to Google we have a new way of traveling not only around the world, but through time as well. On Tuesday the Google blog announced that the internet ...Hookupmaps, for convenient lovin'
Oct 26th, 2008 at 3:00PM: So, I just went to hookupmaps.com, X'd out of the pop ups, clicked on my area of Manhattan, and to the right is a screenshot of what I found. Minimal travelin', maximal lovin'. Hookupmaps has intergrated Craigslist's Personals section and Google Maps. At last...or something. The possibilities are endless and totally appalling. I mean..."throat slut for hotel visitor?" Really. "Where are all the ...GeoEye-1 satellite takes its first photos for Google
Oct 11th, 2008 at 11:00AM: The photo you see above, is the first shot taken by the new GeoEye-1 satellite. The image is of the university campus in Kutztown, PA. The reason this is so interesting? GeoEye has sold all the rights of their commercial images taken on this new satellite, to Google. Google laid down some serious cash to get sole access to these images, and I'm sure we'll be seeing the results of this contract ...Google Maps Mobile now offers public transit directions
Sep 25th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Google Maps Mobile has always been a pretty nifty way to get maps and local information on your mobile device. Since its first release, Google has slowly been adding new features, and the newest addition is mobile access to public transit directions. Public transit networks in 50 cities around the world have provided Google with their route information, which has been incorporated in the search ...The new T-Mobile G1 phone (and what it means for travelers)
Sep 23rd, 2008 at 8:30PM: The "big" news in the world of gadgets today was of course the announcement of the T-Mobile G1 "Google Phone". This new smartphone has been widely covered on all the gadget sites (I recommend the coverage from our friends at Engadget) so I'll take a brief look at what this phone means to people that travel a lot.
The first important feature is that it uses 3G data; 3G refers to the third ...
