Google has added indoor floor plans to the Web version of its Maps service, allowing any device with a browser to show the way in airports, rail stations, shopping malls and museums in nine countries. The indoor maps have previously been available on the Google Maps application for Android, but the addition of the Web interface means they can be accessed on Apple’s iPad and other devices not running Google’s OS.

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The return overnight Wednesday of Google’s (GOOG) Street View on Apple’s (AAPL) mobile devices reminds me of what someone once said on seeing a three-legged dog run. The miracle isn’t that it runs well, but that it runs at all. Street View, of course, is that triumph of brute force data gathering that Google assembled by paying thousands of drivers to log millions of miles going up and down the streets of the world with camera-equipped cars.

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More trips, more discoveries, more social travel! Wipolo has already become THE social travel platform, chosen by Facebook as its travel app for the whole of Europe. Wipolo’s new app is based on the HTML 5 mobile technology.

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Nokia has updated its m.maps.nokia.com mobile maps website with voice-guided, turn-by-turn walk navigation for use on iOS and Android devices.

Nokia told iOS and Android users, “[t]here’s no need to be stuck with other mapping services anymore. You can also access Nokia Maps’ extensive Places directory and high quality directions on m.maps.nokia.com and, from today, you’ll get voice-guided walk navigation too.”

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iTether is back for the iPhone. But this time it comes with a new name—Tether for iPhone—and in the form of an HTML5 app that circumvents Apple’s App Store entirely.

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In the recent kerfuffle over the prevalence of the -webkit CSS prefix and the lack of corresponding prefixes for other browsers, we told you that the problem was with developers, not WebKit browsers. Instead of writing code that will work in any browser many developers are coding exclusively for WebKit and that’s a problem.

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Talk about an interesting day on the Apple (AAPL) iPhone and iPad ecosystem front. First, Amazon (AMZN) introduced what it called the Kindle cloud reader, which is really an HTML5-based way to route around Apple’s effort to skim e-commerce revenue from app vendors. Then Wal-Mart (WMT) rolled out a new HTML5 Vudu video streaming app.

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Pitting the Android Google+ application against the iOS browser version of Google+ side-by-side to see just how well the two experiences compare reveals some surprising results.

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Google has updated it’s cloud based word processing web-app, Google Docs. iPhone, Android smartphone and iPad owners will now be able to edit their documents on the go using the new application.

Hitting English speaking countries in the next few days, those with iOS devices on firmware version 3.0 or higher, or using Android Froyo devices, will benefit from the new changes.

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Google’s already come in for a skip-load of criticism over the privacy implications of its new social-networking service, Buzz. And to be fair to Google, it’s reacted pretty swiftly to some of the worst excesses.

Yet, the problems with Buzz auto-following your Gmail contacts and then announcing who they are to the rest of the internet pale into “so what?”

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We haven’t seen any official announcement, but a few eagle-eyed readers pointed out that the Google Voice web interface now allows users to send text messages to multiple recipients.

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Google Voice just got a little better on the iPhone, thanks a new Web site for iPhone users, google.com/voice/m. As iPhone users will painfully recall, Apple last year rejected Google’s iPhone-native Google Voice app, leaving those who wanted to use Google Voice with what was at first a bare and limited Web-based app. But one of the big advantages of the new HTML 5 spec, which the iPhone’s Safari browser supports, is that it lets Web developers bring more application-like functionality to Web apps. The new site is proof of that.

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The Konami code refers to a cheat code sequence for Nintendo devices invented by Kazuhisa Hashimoto in the mid 1980s. The code was intended to help during testing, allowing debugging of advanced game play without having to spend the time or effort actually getting to those levels. Normally, a player has to earn abilities over time. The cheat code Easter egg lets you jump from n00b-skillz directly into mad hax0r3d power. Over time, the Konami code gained traction and has been used and re-used in many games and websites since.

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Google has just added a useful button to its mobile homepage – tagged “near me now”, this feature lets you search by using your location as the query.  Currently available for iPhone and Android phone users in the U.S., “Near me now” utilizes GPS for determining your whereabouts and then searches for results near your location.

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Even with the most practiced digits, composing long e-mail on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard is the slow, awkward pits compared with typing on a desktop keyboard. However, Google released a small new feature on Monday just for long-winded iPhone e-mail authors that makes typing lengthy Gmail messages easier on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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