Internet giant Google has begun a pilot program, allowing users of its “Maps” service to look inside businesses. This tool is aimed to further the controversial Street View feature which already allows the public to access 360° images of streets. A spokesman for Google described the new feature: “Building on the Google Art Project, which […]
During a press conference this afternoon, the Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Google announced a partnership for “Promoting Thai Tourism through the use of Google Street View”. Street View in Google Maps lets you explore places through 360-degree street-level imagery, whether you’re looking at locations in your town or across the […]
SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) – Google Inc. will continue to invest in Southeast Asia, the fastest growing market for the U.S. Internet search and services company, a company executive said Wednesday. “Southeast Asia is coming into prominence but not much of content about the region is available on the Internet. With over 120 million people online in […]
A new Experian Hitwise report concludes that Yahoo Search and Microsoft’s Bing provide users with a higher search success rate. That raises an interesting question, which we’ll get to in a minute. But first the Experian Hitwise numbers: · 81.4% of searches using search.yahoo.com — which is powered by Microsoft’s search technology — resulted in […]
As reported by The Register, Google removed over 11 million .co.cc subdomain from its search index, since the company considered too many of the sites “spammy”. Free .co.cc subdomains are offered by a Korean company. The company also offers bulk registrations of 15,000 subdomains for a fee of $1,000. According to the company’s website they […]
Nattawat Samattadol, a friend of the owner of Enchanted Bar in the trendy J Avenue retail centre, said he did not recognise Zuckerberg at first, but became certain it was him after googling the young billionaire’s name and checking his photos.He said Zuckerberg arrived in a casual outfit – T-shirt and black slippers – which […]
Capping off a year of stellar growth in Thailand, Facebook just hit a major milestone in passing 6.5 million members in the country. The stat is significant as it means that more than one in ten of Thailand’s population (officially 63.5 million) is – on average – registered on the service, a huge increase which […]
On Monday, Symbian Foundation discontinued Symbian OS, as a result of its lost popularity since Android came to market. The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia, being one of the few hardware manufacturers who use the system on some of the models, announced that it has taken over the operating system’s development. Nokia had acquired Symbian Foundation […]
