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Google has quietly removed the Chinese name for a South China Sea shoal bitterly disputed by Beijing and Manila from its maps service, following an outcry from Filipinos.

• 14 июля 2015, 13:30

An update to Google's free online map service let users become local guides who post reviews of businesses and venues in a challenge to Yelp.

• 07 февраля 2015, 11:17

Google apologised Friday after a major square in Berlin regained its Nazi-era name "Adolf Hitler" on its popular online Maps page for a few hours.

• 12 января 2014, 17:33

An odd underwater ballet has been unfolding in the Mediterranean port of Toulon these past few days.

• 27 июля 2013, 12:15

Google released an upgraded version of its popular maps app for Android-powered smartphones and tablets that ditches a Latitude feature that let people share locations with family or friends.

• 12 июля 2013, 11:37

Where are people most unfaithful? Who uses sex toys? On a darker level, where is child rape more prevalent? French geographers have tried to answer these questions and others in a global atlas on sexuality.

• 10 июня 2013, 10:21

Google on Thursday began offering the chance for people to wander virtually through an abandoned town deep within the exclusion zone around Japan's crippled nuclear plant.

• 28 марта 2013, 14:27

Weeks after its chairman Eric Schmidt's secretive visit to North Korea, Google has rolled out a detailed map of the isolated state that even labels some of its remote and infamous gulags.

• 29 января 2013, 18:28

Google is letting people peg their New Year's resolutions to an online map and see what promises others around the world have set out to keep in 2013.

• 06 января 2013, 18:48

A New Zealand researcher Monday claimed to have solved the riddle of a mystery South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps which does not exist, blaming a whaling ship from 1876.

• 03 декабря 2012, 14:31

India is stamping its map on visas given to Chinese visitors, an Indian official said Saturday, after China began issuing passports showing disputed territories as its own.

• 24 ноября 2012, 16:22

A South Pacific island identified on Google Earth and world maps does not exist, according to Australian scientists who went searching for the mystery landmass during a geological expedition.

• 22 ноября 2012, 18:28

Apple on Monday announced that the executive in charge of Maps, Siri and other software in its culture-changing iPhones is leaving as part of a shakeup in the upper ranks of the company.

• 30 октября 2012, 16:22

Apple apologized Friday for its glitch-ridden maps application in the new operating system used by the iPhone 5 and urged customers to use rival programs while improvements are made.

• 29 сентября 2012, 13:20

Melting bridges, misplaced landmarks, and major cities disappearing: Apple's glitch-ridden maps program released in its new mobile software has customers fuming and analysts puzzled.

• 22 сентября 2012, 17:11

Apple's new iPhone 5 may have been criticised for its glitch-ridden new maps program, but it may have inadvertently provided a diplomatic solution to China and Japan's ongoing row over disputed islands.

• 22 сентября 2012, 10:47

The final result that we want is a topographic map of the shelf and bottom of Kazakhstan sector in 1:25,000 scale: expert.

• 22 августа 2012, 11:37

Some of the maps still have the original Turkic names of stows, towns, different landscapes that were renamed later or disappeared during historical cataclysms, like Mongol and Junggar invasions and especially during the period of Russian colonial sovereignty and the Soviet Union: expert.

• 13 июня 2012, 15:38