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Where Have All the Bus Stops Gone?

Brett — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:15:48 +0000

Fire up Google Maps to find out where to catch the bus, and it won't help much; dozens or hundreds of stops are displayed in the wrong locations, have the wrong bus lines associated with them, or aren't shown at all.

Try this mess at Brigham Circle, for example. You'll spend a long time waiting for the 39 on Tremont Street, yet that's where Google Maps now declares the 39 stops; the stop for the 39 on Huntington Avenue is gone.

By the way, here's what we were promised for live transit updates about a week ago. Here's what we got instead.

Want to report that the stations or stops are in the wrong locations? Sorry, can't do that.

How do you watch TV?

jeffcutler — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:26:22 +0000

Whether you’re someone who sits on the couch with the cat or time shifts your entertainment and loads it onto your mobile device, technology has changed our TV watching.

These days - and maybe you already have one - there are Apple TV devices, Roku boxes, Google TV and many more so-called connected TV devices. And these types of technology have opened up the capability for people to enjoy their entertainment.

To that end, as I type this there are five entertainment and tech industry executives sitting in bar stools at the front of a Hill Holliday conference room in downtown Boston. These TV pros have their own opinions about how you should watch TV. Whether you believe them or step into line with their wishes is really up to you.

So who are they and what are they saying? On the panel are: Aaron McNally of Google TV; Anderw Kippen of Boxee; Greg RIvera of Xbox; Chas Smith of Roku; and Tara Maitra of TIVO.

When asked by Hill Holliday’s Mike Proulx, “Who are these devices for?” the panelist responded as follows...

We Watch TV FIVE HOURS a Day on Average... WHAT?

jeffcutler — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:00:19 +0000

Covering technology events is a breeze, but sometimes - as with today’s #TVNext panel in Boston at Hill Holliday - you sometimes run into a challenge. Today's event is a challenge for me because I've already heard some astonishing facts and it's only 10AM. We now watch TV five hours a day, on average, in America.

Let me paint the picture and then I'll share where that five-hour figure came from.

Sitting on the 35th floor at a State Street high rise, about 100 or so broadcast pros, media reps, social media folks and marketing people have gathered to hear where TV is headed. Specifically, they are anxious to find out the new ways in which viewers consumer content and embrace entertainment.

Boston-area WiFi provider sues Google over privacy issues

adamg — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:26:21 +0000

Galaxy Internet Services, which runs Brookline's townwide WiFi network, charges the wireless system Google used as it took Street View photos collected data on at least one occasion from Brookline wireless users.

BU becomes first university to get Street View coverage from the Google trike

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:53:55 +0000

Google just launched new street view imagery taken by their camera equipped tricycle (the trike) which allows them to take pictures of areas not accessible by car. Along with Legoland, Seaworld, Hershey Park and other attractions, the trike visited BU. The older sun-soaked footage of BU, taken from Comm Ave has been removed.

Chrome-plated lawsuit against Google

adamg — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:15:50 +0000

An Israeli software company with an office in Waltham yesterday charged the way Google sends out updates for its Chrome Web browser violates its patent.

Blogger says he was threatened with arrest for handing out flyers at Google/MBTA lovefest

adamg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:46:35 +0000

Jonathan Kamens reports an MBTA cop threatened him with arrest for trying to give reporters at this morning's Google Maps/MBTA press conference at South Station flyers about incorrect bus-route information at mbta.com.

Although the building is publicly owned, it is managed by a private company, a representative of which told Kamens he couldn't exercise the First Amendment without a permit. A few minutes later, a T cop told him to knock it off or she'd have to take him away, he says.

Google Moves City Hall

Brett — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:09:33 +0000

New game: Where's Mumbles?

(Google Maps has a history of getting landmarks in Boston wrong. A year or two ago, they had Kendall Station about 2 blocks east of its real location.)

Great Googleymoogley

adamg — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:19:05 +0000

Google set to extend tendrils into Boston:

Job listings for the Boston area and a reputed search for suitable facilities in the city add up to a forthcoming Beantown presence for the search advertising company. ...

Via Skadz.

Microsoft vs. Google: The Data War

John Guilfoil — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:07:50 +0000

Google began with an almost ridiculously simple web site in an age of complexity. At the same time, the most popular search engines including Yahoo! were complicated and verbose portals of information, sorted into detailed categories. Google appeared with little more than a dialog box and very rapidly changed the way people seek out data on the Internet.

Fox + MySpace + Google

John Guilfoil — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:26:31 +0000

As Seen on:

This may cause a little confusion.

According to a News Corp. press release, Twentieth Century Fox will start selling movies and television shows through web sites owned by its parent company, News Corp, which also owns IGN Entertainment.