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Indoor Maps & GPS – FIVEaa Segment

Google Indoor Maps

GPS limited by line-of-sight, so won’t work indoors or amongst tall buildings. Similar to using touch screen directories in shopping centres/airports/ This technology primarily uses WiFi hotspots to narrow down location within 5-10 metres. Some tests also using other phone

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“40% of Shopping Searches Now Coming From Smartphones & Tablets” – Google

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  40% of shopping searches now come from smartphones and tablets. Overall shopping related searches up 20% year on year. 1 in 3 large advertisers without mobile-friendly website, even less amongst small to medium business. Massive opportunity for retailers. Details

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Natural Disasters and Technology – FIVEaa Segment

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Mathan talks to FIVEaa Breakfast about Superstorm Sandy and how technology can assist communications in times of natural disaster. Google Crisis Map Location of store, forecast track. Shelter locations. Public alerts Evacuation zones and centres. http://www.google.org/crisismap http://www.google.org/crisisresponse New York Times

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Gmail Changes – Compose/Reply Email

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Google has created a new option for composing/replying to email, making it a smaller ‘pop-up’ window within your internet browser. We just saw this update to Gmail/Google Apps hit our account this afternoon. The compose email window appears in the bottom

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