Google Earth

Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks

ITworld staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:30:34 -0500

The terrorists that attacked various locations in south Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks.

Ten great Google Earth add-ons

ITworld staff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:50:05 -0400

Google Earth puts an entire planet's worth of useful, relevant, and just plain weird content at your fingertips -- with the assistance of a large library of add-ons. Here are our 10 favorites.

GeoEye imaging satellite launched

ITworld staff — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:34:56 -0400

The highest resolution commercial Earth imaging satellite to date, the GeoEye-1, was launched over the weekend on a Delta-II rocket that carried the Google logo alongside the GeoEye logo on its side.

Researchers paid good money to look for cows on Google Earth

abennett — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:43:00 -0400

There are many, many useless things that Google Earth helps you waste time doing, and one of them is scouring the surface of our planet to find cows to look at -- in the name of research, of course.

Olympic Gold Medalist Gives Props to Google Earth

ITworld staff — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:17:55 -0400

Google got some serious gold, promotion-wise: Olympic cyclist and Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong wrote that Google Earth was "invaluable" in helping her find a training route in Boise, Idaho similar to the Olympic course in Beijing.

Google StreetView: Privacy doesn't exist

abennett — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:40:15 -0400

Google has been accused of hypocrisy after the search engine defended its Street View tool by saying "complete privacy doesn't exist."