It is the holiday season and people obviously have plans. Many are already on vacation, some are planning one over the weekend and there are others who would love to know what is on offer in terms of fun and party flavor come New Year. One major factor in all this, especially considering the current state of things, is the WEATHER. That is right folks, we got a Christmas that we ordered for up in the Northern parts of the globe this time, but it is just a bit whiter than we imagined. It is snowing pretty hard in many areas with snowstorms predicted to be around the corner.

With all of the Call of Duty: Black Ops leaked footage we have yet to see much info about the games multiplayer maps that we will be shooting our friends on. Now that question has been answered. We have the list of 14 multiplayer maps and that’s not including any DLC that could be coming down the pipeline. CallofDuty7BlackOps.com has a nice list of the maps with the thumbnails of the levels as well. They all look very diverse and a lot of fun to play. Here’s the list of maps: Array – Large sized snow covered map. Cracked – Large size map set in the streets of vietnam.

Bing Maps has just been upgraded and now has a shiny new interface that’s a lot more streamlined than the previous one and gives you a noticeably easier access to the service’s various functionality. Also, it also has a new app with a rather innovative purpose – calculating your taxi fares. To make use of the Taxi Fare Calculator, you’ll have to click on the “map apps” button which you’ll find around the bottom of your screen, and from then select the Taxi Fare Calculator. The interface update itself is quite pleasant too, as

When it rains, it pours, huh, Google? Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One, Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom support on the Droid. Of course, it was no secret that Android 2.0 had the framework in place to support this kind of stuff — Moto enabled it all by its lonesome on the Euro-spec Milestone — but it looks like this could be the watershed moment where multitouch finally becomes a must-have feature on Android devices across the board, as Moto CEO Sanjay Jha recently

Whoever said the Apple iPad would arrive accompanied by a kickstand has been proved wrong. The Apple iPad will not be sporting a built in kickstand. It is just the kickstand that is a minus, after all. The features the device loads into itself are enough to keep you in awe. The company decision to do away with the kickstand could come as a welcome one, as it could add to the aesthetics of the device. However, there are many who would have preferred a kickstand so that they could have left their hands free while using the device. It’s the kickstand that is missing.. Look

Ericsson Labs is showing off an API for navigating through a three-dimensional interpretation of the world based on real imagery powered by Saab spinoff (the defense firm, not the car company) C3 Technologies on Sony Ericsson’s upcoming X10 — and in a word, it’s looking impressive. The buttons for controlling the action are a bit hokey, of course, but don’t worry too much about that — this is strictly a proof of concept, and the important thing is that no matter how much panning, tilting, and swooping through the cityscape the demo-giver does, video

Google Maps and its street view functionality is pretty slick, no question there, but a little competition never hurt anyone. So Nokia’s NAVTEQ is raising the stakes with its new fleet of LIDAR (light detection and ranging) and camera equipped vehicles which have spent the last year roaming the U.S. capturing 3D point cloud data of America’s highways and biways. NAVTEQ True, which is what the company officially calls the new mapping collection system, is able to capture over 1.5 million 3D data points every second, from a range of about 120 meters around the

Garmin recently announced their free Custom Maps service which enables Garmin Oregon, Garmin Dakota and Garmin Colorado owners upload their digital maps onto their device, and heck – even paper maps are supported this time round. You will first need to update the software on your PC beforehand, alongside giving the aforementioned Garmin devices their relevant upgrades as well. Maps are saved in the JPG format, where you will then create an image overlay, link the JPG file, adjust the boundaries, followed by beaming it to your

[DEMOFall 09] Micello is a database of maps of places like shopping malls, college campuses, convention centers etc… that mobile users can explore and access useful information while interacting with each other, thanks to its social networking component. There tons of Location Based Services such as Google Latitude or Loopt, bit none of them has really got into the buildings with relevant information.I can imagine very well how this application could provide both information and highly relevant advertising to a super targeted and

Last month, when Zack Ajmal was planning a vacation to Italy, he set out to find the first thing that a traveler would need in a foreign land: a map. But digital maps of Rome and Venice for his Garmin GPS device cost almost $100. So instead, Ajmal turned to OpenStreetMap, a community-driven maps database. “It worked out pretty well,” the Atlanta-based engineer says. “I found Open MTB, which had outdoor hiking and cycling maps with not just roads information, but also trails, short cuts and little known routes.” Ajmal is among roughly half a million