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The Supreme Court has declined to hear Google's appeal of a ruling that it pried into people's online lives through their Wi-Fi systems as part of its drive to collect information for its Street View mapping project.
Read More »Google Maps return to iPhone with new mobile app
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Maps has found its way back to the iPhone. The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple ...
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Read More »Tim Cook on Apple maps: ‘Extremely sorry’
NEW YORK — Apple CEO Tim Cook apologized Friday for the company’s error-ridden new mobile mapping service, pledging to improve the application installed on tens of millions of smartphones and, in an unusual mea culpa, inviting frustrated consumers to turn ...
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Read More »Apple says new iPhone 5 is thinner, lighter
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. on Wednesday unveiled the iPhone 5, saying it’s thinner and lighter than the previous model, even though it has a bigger screen. The new phone hits stores in the U.S. and several other countries Sept. ...
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Read More »Paper maps: Amid GPS boom, nostalgia finds a place
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Used to be, Dad would stuff a half-dozen maps in the glove box before setting out with the family on a road trip to see the waterfalls at Yosemite or the granite faces of Mount Rushmore. Colorful ...
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Read More »Google turns to users for guidance on US maps
Google Inc. doesn’t hesitate to seek directions when it comes to trying to improve its online mapping service. That’s why Google is asking its users to add more details to its U.S. maps. The suggested revisions can be made beginning ...
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Read More »High court rules against Navy in open records case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the government’s broad use of an exemption in the federal Freedom of Information Act to withhold documents from the public, ruling for a Washington state resident who wants Navy maps relating to ...
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