Google has announce the availability of Google Earth 1.1 for Android running phones. Google Earth for Android 1.1 is available in Android Market today for most Android devices running version 2.1 or later.
…Google has announce the availability of Google Earth 1.1 for Android running phones. Google Earth for Android 1.1 is available in Android Market today for most Android devices running version 2.1 or later.The new Google Earth for Android allows users to “can check out the landscape and terrain in Monterery Bay Canyon, which is larger than the Grand Canyon, by zooming in on Google Earth below the ocean surface just off the coast.”"If you are underwater, you can use the ‘look around’ button to tilt the view and see the extent of this great undersea canyon,” suggests Jenifer Austin Foulkes, Product Manager, on Google…
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All New Google Earth For Android
Broadcasters want Congress to mandate FM receivers in cell phones. Why, critics complain, would the government mandate an “obsolete,” “dying” technology that “nobody wants”?
…in June, as opposed to 6,316 and 2,911 respectively just two years ago.
Bottom line: lots of folks have yet to join the great iPhone/Android/tweetorama-fest. One big reason they can’t afford to. Another they like their car FM radios and pay TV systems just fine, or at least “fine enough.”
All this has happened before
Sixty years ago everybody predicted the obsolescence of not just FM, but broadcast radio as a whole. “In 1952, death seemed imminent for network radio,” wrote the broadcast historian Erik Barnouw. “Radio is Doomed,” Look magazine proclaimed in 1949.
Jazz singer Dinah Washington agreed. “TV is the thing this year,” she declared in her hit song (circa 1952).
“TV is the thing this year,
Radio was great, but now it’s out of date
and TV is the thing this year.”
It sure looked like television was sucking up all the available oxygen in the room. In 1951 most cities with just one TV station saw “signs of economic earthquake and drastic changes of habit,” as Barnouw puts it. They reported up…
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Earth to tech bloggers: FM lives! (In fact, it’s growing)