Google Maps News & Articles

With all the news of Facebook's IPO this week, Google's still-fledgling social service marched over another user milestone as the improvements and other changes in the Google ecosystem keep on coming.

Lots of negativity in the world of Google this week. In addition to the big disappointment that was the Gmail app for the iPhone, there's plenty of trash being talked about the new look of Gmail and Google Reader. 

Most users (and many businesses) think of Google as an endless source of great free stuff, but that may be coming to an end as the company starts charging for heavy usage of its Maps API service.

If you were disappointed at the postponed release of both Chrome OS and Google’s fiber-optic network, perhaps this will cheer you up: The Internet giant moved its WebGL 3D graphics API for JavaScript to beta, opening up a door for developers to begin creating three-dimensional Web apps. 

Last week in Google was like a week in a bad soap opera: First the Internet giant pissed everyone off when they partnered with Verizon in a proposition to erode 'net neutrality, then Oracle slapped them with a patent and copyright infringement suit. 

Yesterday Google announced their new location-aware display ads for mobile devices. The addition is hot on the heels of Google's Places app (a Yelp competitor, also for mobile) and together these two solutions are poised to provide some serious leeway for marketers with on on-the-go consumers in mind. 

The last few months have brought exciting developments to Inergize Digital (news, site). In April they not only ranked as an industry leader in client satisfaction with their content management system, they also updated their Wireless Application Protocol site to offer video delivery, style customizations, a redesigned user interface and monetization.

However, that was only the beginning. This week they introduced Google mapping technology for their Web CMS clients.

It’s nearly a waste of breath to say that the iPhone is a super hot ticket. With cool factor, pinchable photos, applications galore and gigs on top of gigs for music, who isn't enamored? However true that may be, it doesn’t change the fact that business execs are, in surprising numbers, staying loyal (addicted?) to their BlackBerries.

And that little factoid is exactly why the recent announcement of the deployable package of Google Maps for Mobile through BlackBerry Enterprise Server is another way of saying "Hey, Christmas came early!" to crack-berried suits all over the globe.

There is a new eye in the sky — GeoEye-1 — and while Google isn’t the only one involved in the satellite action, the company is already receiving high-resolution images that are beautifully detailed.

Google has gotten exclusive rights to integrate these 50-centimeter-resolution images taken from GeoEye-1 into mapping applications, so we already know what is in store for the Google Maps and Google Earth users around the globe.

Google Maps is quite an innovation, and its street view — while controversial — is spectacular for figuring out where something is located. And it all just became even more interesting, as Google Maps for mobile devices has received significant upgrades that give more power and information to mobile users.