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This article was written on March 19, 2008 by CyberNet.

Google has decided that they want their users to help make Google Maps as accurate as possible and so they have bestowed upon them editing rights. Now any user who is logged in to their Google account will be able to edit a place on the map, including move the marker. At this point, only those living in the United States, Australia and New Zealand can make edits. To me, this is an open invitation for vandals to come and wreak havoc on the maps, but Google says they’ve taken steps to protect accuracy.

To make editing changes to the maps, just go to http://maps.google.com and search for any type of location whether it be a street name or a complete address. From there you’ll notice a new link that says “Add a place to the map.” Clicking that will bring you to the page where you can add a place, move a marker on the map, or edit details.

The editing details page looks like this:

As you enter the type of place that it is, a drop-down menu will appear with different examples of what you could enter. Read Write Web noticed that while you can enter in any information you’d like, that doesn’t mean Google will accept the changes. They tried to change the web address for a location to something totally unrelated and it wouldn’t allow the change. This must be part of what they’re doing to help protect accuracy.

Speaking of accuracy, Google says that you’ll always be able to see the original listing information. Additionally, users will be able to view the history of changes that were made. If something didn’t seem quite right, a quick look at the history could explain a lot. At this point we’re a little skeptical about how this is going to work, but if people don’t abuse the system and Google has enough checks and balances in place to prevent abuse, it could turn out to be a great tool.

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A funny thing happened after Google posted (and subsequently pulled) its Android 3.0 Honeycomb video: T-Mobile celebrated its G-Slate announcement by posting the same video. And about six more after that (to be fair, they’re also on the Motorola / Verizon Xoom we demoed). Today it was made official during Verizon’s keynote, with Google itself narrating a hands-on demo. We’ve scrutinized these videos to no end and we think we’ve come up with the most complete picture of Google’s tablet OS experience at this point. Join us after the break for all the goods.

Continue reading Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb for tablets: a guided tour of the UI (video)

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At CES, NEC’s showing off the hinged Android tablet it teased last month, pitching it as a great way for third parties to… well, do awesome stuff. They’re kind of leaving the doors wide open as to how (or to whom) it’ll be sold, suggesting it could make a great e-reader, a digital notebook for students, a scrapbook, or whatever devs dream up. The “Cloud” part of the “Cloud Communicator” name means that NEC thinks the LT-W would be great for generic cloud services, but really, it’s just an Android 2.1 tablet with WiFi, Bluetooth, and optional 3G — there’s nothing special in here that makes it particularly well-adapted for magically pulling data out of the cloud.

Unfortunately — cloud or otherwise — we didn’t come away with a very positive impression of this thing. Our very first red flag was the stylus, which matches up with a pair of 800 x 600 resistive touchscreens that don’t seem particularly bright or contrasty. Some of NEC’s sample apps (which you can see in the video after the break) make decent use of the dual display setup, but nothing blew us away — and more importantly, everything seemed just a little too jerky for a Cortex-A8 core. If NEC were to remix this with a Tegra 2, two capacitive touchscreens, and Honeycomb, we might be singing a different tune… but for now, this seems like little more than a Courier gone wrong.

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This article was written on May 09, 2007 by CyberNet.

Google Earth 4.1 Beta is now available for everyone to download. As of right now there is no information posted on what’s new in version 4.1, but both the Ogle Earth and Google Earth blogs have shed some light on new features that they have found:

• The SpaceNavigator by 3DConnexion now supports the Mac version of Google Earth. According to the Google Store: “SpaceNavigator is compatible with greater than 100 popular 3D applications as well as Windows XP, Vista, Linux and Mac OS X.”
• A new “Tips of the Day” screen appears when you start Google Earth. This will make it easier for newcomers to learn about all of the features that Google Earth offers.
  
• Open the current view in Google Maps! This is a feature that has been long overdue for Google Earth, but now in the click of a button you can now open the area you’re currently viewing in Google Maps.
  

This build is pretty new since it was just compiled on May 6, 2007. Google will probably mention more about the new version in the next day or so, and if we find anything else out we’ll add it to this list. If you notice something new that we didn’t mention let us know so that we can add it to the list. 

Some people are having troubles downloading the new Beta when visiting the Google Earth download page, which might still serve up the older version. To help those people out this is the direct link to the Windows download via Google’s servers, and this is a mirror of that same file that I uploaded myself.

Download Google Earth (Version 4.1 Beta Mirror for Windows only)

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