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In the lead-up to Anzac Day, Google Australia has shared some ways that Aussies can virtually follow in the footsteps of those who served in World War I.

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 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."

Search giant Google is fast-tracking the replacement of a satellite image found on Google Maps that shows the body of a 14 year old boy shot and killed in the San Francisco Bay area in 2009.

Google today announced that it has been taking its Street View Trekker and its underwater Street View cameras to the Galapagos Islands, for an underwater survey.

Google has used Privacy Awareness Week to reveal it completed the deletion of Australian Wi-Fi payload data 'mistakenly' collected by its Street View cars as long ago as February.

The world seems to be going crazy over the royal wedding. Even Google Maps' Pegman has found a bride and is dressed up for the altar.

From tales of discovering the lost city of Atlantis, to the latest discovery from an Australian whose Google Earth armchair archaeology suggests large parts of Saudi Arabia are 'immensely rich in archaeological remains' and 'probably several thousand years old", armchair archaeologists are finding new things to go ogle!

Australian authorities have decided not to prosecute Google for the 'inadvertent' collection of personal data by its Street View cars. Quite right too.

The latest version of Google Earth integrates Street View and includes 3D species-specific models of trees. It also provides more convenient access to historical imagery.

It's no longer just Nokia offering free navigation on a range of its smartphones, but now Google too, on Android phones running OS 1.6 and up, ensuring most phones on the market either already work from today or will with a free Android market download of the latest Google Maps version.

Google Australia remains a prosecution target of federal investigators over its systematic and unauthorised collection of personal data through its fleet of Street View cars, with the Australian Federal Police currently assessing advice on possible breaches of Commonwealth criminal law.

Google has given Germans an additional month to object to the inclusion of their premises in Street View before the service goes live later this year.