Mountain View, CA – Google Inc. is adding a bike lane with its latest online mapping option.
The new bicycling directions available on Google Maps starting today supplement the guidance already provided to motorists and pedestrians. The biking directions initially will be available only for the United States.
Google spent the past six months tweaking its mapping [...]
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Mountain View, CA – Google Adds Bike Lane with Latest Mapping Feature
Mountain View, CA – Google, the world’s biggest online search engine, wants to turbocharge your Internet connection.
The company said Wednesday it is getting into the broadband service business with trials for fiber networks that will deliver Internet access speeds that are 100 times faster than what most Americans are getting today.
The company said [...]
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Mountain View, CA – Google to Launch 100 Times Faster Broadband Service
Washington – The Obama administration is imposing new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeting one person and four companies for penalties over their alleged involvement in producing and spreading weapons of mass destruction.
The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it would freeze the assets in U.S. jurisdictions of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Rostam [...]
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Washington – U.S. Slaps New Sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard
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Jerusalem – The world’s oldest Jewish cemetery just went online.
A new project undertaken by the City of David archeological Park, located south of Jerusalem’s Old City and at the foot of the Mount of Olives cemetery, has begun the process of identifying and documenting tombstones throughout the entirety of the Mount of Olives and uploading [...]
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Jerusalem – Har HaZeisim Cemetery Finds a New Home – on the Internet
New York, NY – Finding a parking spot with a broken meter may be the New York equivalent of hitting the jackpot — but, thanks to a new iPhone application, everyone can now be a winner.
The free app, called NYC Broken Meters, uses the city’s own data to help motorists starve the meter.
Under city law, [...]
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New York, NY – iPhone App’s a Meter Beater
Mountain View, CA – A resident of the Jewish community of Eli in Samaria has discovered that the giant Google search engine is apparently not waiting for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to complete final status negotiations. In Google’s Internet world, life for Jews in the region has already taken on a new reality.
Eliezer Tabor picked up a [...]
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Mountain View, CA – Google Puts Judea and Samaria in Arab Hands
Washington – The government and the window covering industry on Tuesday recalled more than 50 million Roman-style shades and roll-up blinds because of the risk children may be strangled by the cords.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said five deaths and 16 near-strangulations from Roman shades have been reported since 2006, while three deaths connected to [...]
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Washington – 50 Million Blinds Recalled as Strangulation Hazard
Montreal – A woman in Canada says she’s going to fight an insurance company’s decision to cut her benefits based on pictures her insurance agent found on Facebook.
The pictures showed the woman vacationing, at a bar and at a party at a time when she was getting monthly sick-leave benefits.
Nathalie Blanchard says she had been [...]
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Montreal – Smiling on Facebook Costs Canadian Woman Her Insurance
Albany, NY – “The Day of Reckoning is here”.
Those were the words of Gov. David Paterson as he announced that he was introducing legislation that will give him the one-time authority to make spending cuts without the approval of the legislature.
With no deal to cut the budget in sight and the state facing an imminent [...]
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Albany, NY – Gov. Paterson Calls For Budget Power
