Displaying items by tag: Google Maps

“Sextortion” attacks are on the rise globally, with hackers using victims’ addresses and photos of their homes to personalise the attacks and increase the pressure to pay, according to new research by Barracuda.

Smartphone navigation app now help you find your way with the audio guidance of legendary Warchief Thrall from the World of Warcraft.

Telcos More and Tangerine have announced new travel packs with bigger data allowances at the expense of voice and text inclusions – and higher prices.

Why would a garden shed be listed on Google maps as a hotel?

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates has announced an integration between Manhattan Active Omni and Google’s Merchant Centre. The integration leverages Google’s Content API for Shopping to enable Manhattan Active Omni retailers to provide shoppers with more accurate location- and product-specific delivery times across Google surfaces, including Search, YouTube, Maps, Discover, and more.

Overnight, Google announced a raft of new AI-powered tools coming to Google Maps to help you get the most accurate, up-to-date information about the world, exactly when you need it, and published a blog post with images, gifs and examples of the new features in action.

GUEST OPINION by Matthew Fowler, Managing Director APAC, VIQ Solutions:   From the legal industry to law enforcement and insurance, 2021 continues a trend in which modern technologies are becoming increasingly crucial to maintaining business operations and delivering efficiencies.

The Australian consumer watchdog has called for submissions on a proposed court-enforceable undertaking offered by Google with regard to its bid to buy American digital health and fitness company Fitbit.

Online peer-to-peer marketplace Airtasker has announced a new global management structure, with Yaniv Bernstein - previously Airtasker’s VP Engineering - appointed to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer (COO).

It's not a case of deja-vu, but a new product you can go bananas over in a most retro way, but with modern 4G speeds Keanu could only have dreamed of.

Claiming “the future of cloud is now”, Google is hosting its Cloud Summit 2017 in Sydney, and is offering live streams of the keynote presentation and demos as they happen – and hopes you’ll register. 

Google Maps' Transit feature now includes route and schedule information for New South Wales public transport.

Google is able to keep tracking the location of an Android user no matter if the individual has deleted Google Maps from the device he or she is using or not.

You may have thought it; now numbers back it up... Pokémon Go is the biggest mobile game ever as measured by daily active users.

Android users, beware. The location data that is stored on your Google profile can result in the police tracking you down for any reason they wish.

Try using any means apart from electronic maps to get around these days and you'll be called an old fuddy-fuddy by your kids and even your peers.

Google has expanded the Street View capabilities of its Maps online application to include must-see underwater, bush, beach, mountain and other iconic Australian locations.

Google’s CEO, Larry Page, has promoted Chrome, Android and Google apps chief Sundar Pichai to a new No.2 spot with several more Google products now in Pichai’s pitcher.

Google has handed over a €1 million ($1.5 million) fine to Italy's data protection watchdog over complaints that cars it used to record images on Italian streets in 2010 were "not clearly recognisable."

New Zealand-based global ERP software provider Greentree International has unveiled its strategic product direction of the future, launching the progressive rollout of a wide new range of software capabilities and the choice of how to use them on mobile devices, tablets, in the Cloud or on-premise.