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A recent Facebook post claims there is no Palestine label on Google Maps. This is true.

Apple CEO apologises for iOS maps, suggests iPhone users try Bing Apple CEO apologises for iOS maps, suggests iPhone users try Bing 28th Sep 2012 4:27pm | By Editor It’s not easy sitting at the top of the tree, because when you get it wrong, everyone notices and jumps on you – as Apple found out with the disastrous release of their recent maps app. It was supposed to be the latest, market-conquering app from Apple, to coincide with the release of iOS6, for iPad, i...

Stacey Abrams is set to re-release the first three romance novels she penned under an assumed name.  Before she ran for governor of Georgia and became a voting rights activist, Abrams wrote romance novels under a pseudonym because she thought her own name was “boring,” as reported by The Daily Beast. Per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, over the past 21 years, Abrams has published eight romance novels under the nom de plume, Selena Montgomery. Her first three romantic suspense novels — ...

Rosalind Bentley, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Stacey Abrams latest novel, "While Justice Sleeps," feels modern until the protagonist comes home from a horrendous day and listens to annoying then menacing voicemails — left on a landline, attached to an answering machine, that beeps in between calls. Why did she make such an anachronistic choice for the fictional 26-year-old U.S. Supreme Court law clerk at the heart of this sprawling thriller about the race to unravel a mult...

I would say it is quite hard to get lost anywhere when you have GPS enabled navigation maps (Like google maps, Bing Maps, Here WeGo, MapQuest, Waze etc). However, lets assume that you do not have such a navigation device, or your phone battery is drained off, or worst of all these – you lost your phone… Here’s what you can do: LAGOS If you ever get lost in Lagos, just find your way to Oshodi, Berger, Ojota, Iddo or Jibowu, from these places, you can even get a bus going to Jerusalem. IBA...

BOSTON - Instead of a compass, intrepid explorer Rachel Mead uses an ingenious digital tool named Atlascope to wander through long-vanished streets and neighborhoods of Boston, Cambridge and adjacent suburbs. Designed by the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center in the Boston Public Library and free to the public, Atlascope has digitalized 101 cumbersome street atlases of Boston and neighboring cities from 1873 to 1938 so they can be accessed on computers and cell phones to guide viewers...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Verizon Media Groups CEO said new owner Apollo Global Management would invest across the company. But Verizon Media Groups sale to Apollo has some staffers worried about cost cuts. Verizon struggled to make good on its goal of using subscriber data to inform ad sales. Verizon has pulled back on its once-big media and advertising ambitions. The telecom giant j...

" MapQuest created the worlds first online mapping and turn-by-turn directions service. HowStuffWorks MapQuest created the worlds first online mapping and turn-by-turn directions service. It launched back in 1996, almost a decade before Google Maps, and was once so popular and ubiquitous that its brand name was used as a verb. As in, "I dont know how to get to Phils house. Can you MapQuest the directions and print them out?" A lot has changed in the online mapping world since the mid-1990...

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Austin lands new nonstop flights to the Windy City for summer travel Austin lands new nonstop flights to the Windy City for summer travel Summer is a beautiful time to visit Chicago. Photo by Miguel Angel Sanz Summertime travelers in Austin soon will have another way to blow into the Windy City. Starting June 6, Southwest Airlines is adding seasonal nonstop service between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Southwest already offers year-round s...