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Google reports that Atlantis is still missing

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Excitement was in the air when someone “found Atlantis” off the cost of Africa recently. According to Google, what looks suspiciously similar to under-water roads is simply an anomaly caused by the ships that collected the data.

[image from Google Maps/Earth]
I’m sure people would have come to the same conclusion Google did if they studied [...]

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Google introduces Web-based offline Gmail on iPhone

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Showing that its Web application priorities extend to the mobile world, Google on Wednesday demonstrated a version of Gmail for the iPhone that could be used even when the phone had no network connection.
Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering, showed off at the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona what he called a [...]

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Google introduces multiple inboxes in gmail

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Gmail Labs has just launched a new feature to create multiple windows in the Gmail window. You can easily search for your labels or a new window.
If you have multiple e-mail accounts with Gmail, and have attached a label for each of these e-mail accounts, this new window you can post any of the accounts [...]

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Google going after the locations

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Google is going ga-ga for location–locating you, telling folks where you are and broadcasting your whereabouts to people in your network.
Traditionally, three items make a trend, but why wait? Google is telegraphing that its future tools are all about location.
The latest: Google said Wednesday that Gmail can now use your IP address to tell folks [...]

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Google Earth 5 Review

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Google Earth upped the cartographic ante again today with Google Earth 5 for Windows and Mac. As CNET News reported back in April 2008, the latest version incorporates even more data from NASA, the BBC, National Geographic, and other proprietary sources to create one of the most unique map offerings ever, meshing comprehensive real-time data [...]

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