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As we've noted before, the information captured by Google's Street View has been put to some surprising uses, and the Boston Glo...

Most sane human beings have stopped trying to keep up with the interwined legal actions arising out of the smartphone patent wars betwe...

One of the striking features of some of the most successful startups over the last ten years – companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter...

Rather patronisingly, the West has tended to regard China as little better than a copy-cat in advanced technologies, not least on the Web. ...

I love travelling by train. In my youth, I bought Interail passes for many years, and basically lived on trains for a month, wending my way...

Since I've been using the Web for over 15 years, it's not often that a site leaves me gob-smacked. But of all the sites I've se...

...well, its "Haptic Entertainment And Navigation System" does : Its a 17-inch LCD touch computer screen that has 3G or wireless c...

I've written many times about OpenStreetMap, but rarely in the context of the proprietary online mapping services. Here's a post t...

On Thursday, WalMart begins selling the Everex Green gPC TC2502, a $198, low-power, Linux-based PC designed primarily for running Web 2.0 ap...

OpenStreetMap has always been one of my favourite open endeavours. It's a fine example of people getting fed up with official intransi...

Talking of Google's growing power : Once again ... the average person has NO idea they are now going to have even more records kept of ...

If any further proof were needed of the fading line between real and virtual, here comes a story about Google Maps moving beyond the tangib...

Here's an interesting little Google map , showing where StarOffice is being used in academic institutions in Italy. OK, so it's a l...

As I've said before, every good mashup needs a mesh, and you can't beat a map as a mesh. So here we have the obvious next step: a ...