THE DRUM

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   Microsoft takes on Google Streetview with Streetside

   Microsoft is looking to gain some online street cred after commencing work on a competitor kerb crawling enterprise called Streetside.Four Bing logo branded cars have from today taken to the streets of London to film the capital in a data... Read more

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   UK - 12/04/2011

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   Norwegian pranksters ambush Google’s Street View

   Google Street View is in the news again after inadvertently capturing the bizarre swimsuited antics of two Norwegian men.Keen for global fame Borre Erstad and paul Age Olsen lay in wait within their hometown of Bergen after being tipped off that... Read more

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   UK - 25/03/2011

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   Google takes Street View service to Amazon rainforest

   Google StreetView is becoming Google RiverView in south America as the popular mapping service goes offroad to capture the majesty of the Amazon rainforest.Incongruously clamped to the top of a local tourist boat Google’s camera technology... Read more

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   UK - 19/08/2011

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   Google fined E100,000 by France as data collection row rumbles on

   Google said sorry about the data inadvertently collected by its Street View cars but that hasn't appeased the gendarmes from France, so now comes the punishment Google has been fined  €100,000 by French authorities for unfair data... Read more

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   UK - 21/03/2011

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   Google stunt proves there’s one born every minute

   First there was the mysterious horse boy, then a false alarm over an apparent road traffic victim. Now eagle eyed viewers of Google's Street View service have notched up a fresh sighting, the birth of a baby.The chance snap took place in Berlin as... Read more

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   UK - 24/11/2010

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   US authorities give Google Street View clean bill of health

   The Federal Trade Commission in the US has ended its privacy investigation into Google Street View, despite the fresh revelations that emerged last weekDave C. Vldadeck, the director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, has said in a... Read more

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   UK - 28/10/2010

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   Google put down Street View's ‘Horseboy’

   Google has slammed the stable door on ‘Horseboy’ after the search engine deleted a suspect frame of their camera car's footage.This showed one Aberdonian resident horsing around on a quiet residential street, face hidden by an... Read more

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   UK - 02/07/2010

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   Budding historians Pin hopes on Google Street View

   Google’s Street View platform has long beguiled its fans with an extraordinarily vast archive of the ordinary, be that in viewing your old homes or in scouring the world for mysterious horse head wearing figures.This three dimensional... Read more

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   UK - 15/07/2010

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9. Six of the best at SXSW

   Opinion: Guest Columnists

   Pete Thomas, futures director for Uniform gives us his top six presentations from his adventure at SXSW 2012. ... Read more

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   Pete Thomas - 23/03/2012

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    Is Designers Republic's Ian Anderson Google's mystery horse man?

    Horsing around on Google – an ambush marketers opportunity? Of the many weird and wonderful sights to be found whilst whiling away a spare five minutes on Google Street View one of the oddest has to be the chap in Aberdeen stood by the... Read more

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    UK - 25/06/2010

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