Reading Time: < 1 min Google Earth Blog has a story about a digital earth product called Earthscape. Earthscape is a desktop program that aims to be similar to Google Earth (and others). It may end up being a decent product, but that’s not the point of this post. At Where 2.0 last week, GEB author Frank Taylor was shown […]
Mobile
Mobile demo of Virtual Earth at CES
Reading Time: < 1 min (via VE / LM) Yesterday at CES in Las Vegas, Bill Gates showed off a completely fake but completely cool demo of Virtual Earth on a handheld device. The technology used in the demo is still a few years away, but it’s a cool glimpse at the future. One thing that stood out to me […]
Yahoo Go 3.0 released, with a nice version of Yahoo Maps
Reading Time: < 1 min As reported by Mobileography, Yahoo has just released Yahoo! Go 3.0. Among the many features in this new mobile suite is a pretty good version of Yahoo Maps. In my brief testing, it seems very similar to Google Maps Mobile, though I give a slight edge to Google. Their app seems to load tiles a […]
Don’t forget about Google Maps Mobile for traffic info
Reading Time: < 1 min With so many people traveling over the next 10 days, I thought it would be worth reminding you about the excellent Google Maps Mobile. The searching and directions are neat, but the live traffic is the real killer feature in this product. It saved us a good deal of time yesterday (don’t go down 75 […]
Location information in Google Maps for mobile — without GPS
Reading Time: < 1 min Google has just released a new version of Google Maps for mobile today. This version includes a new feature called “My Location”. By using cell tower triangulation, it can pinpoint your location to within a few hundred meters. It’s not as accurate as GPS, but it’s pretty darn good. In addition, it can assist with […]
Verizon’s math skills are deteriorating
Reading Time: < 1 min I have Verizon Wireless for my cell phone and I’m reasonably happy with them. However, they seem to be having a very hard time figuring out what their rates are. First was the very amusing story of George Vaccaro, who couldn’t convince Verizon that $0.02 and $0.0002 were actually different numbers. Now we have a […]
Verizon doesn’t want us
Reading Time: 3 min Verizon is getting dumber by the day. I posted before about why we switched from Sprint to Verizon. Now Verizon is trying to hard to convince us we made a mistake. Last weekend we went to the beach. I figured I had three shots at internet access, since our condo didn’t technically have it: 1 […]
Jott seems quite useful
Reading Time: < 1 min How cool is Jott? I just found this site today. You sign-up, give it your cell phone number, and then put their number in your speed dial. Any time you want, you can call that number and leave a message. The message will be transcribed and e-mailed to you – all for free! For all […]
Sprint doesn’t like old customers – just new ones. So we switched to Verizon.
Reading Time: 2 min My wife had been with Sprint for about six years, and I’d been with them for the last two. We thought they had great service, fair prices, and we had every intention of staying with them. Our two year contract had expired a couple months ago, so we went to Radio Shack in search of […]