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Thursday, 14 November 2013

Pune girl wins 'Doodle4Google' contest!

A depiction using each letter of Google to portray various facets of Indian woman – graceful, elegant, adept at balancing work and home and go-getter - by a schoolgirl in Pune has been adjudged the national winner of Doodle4Google contest.




The doodle made by Pune's Gayatri Ketharaman, will go live on the Google (India) homepage on November 14, the National Children's Day.

Each letter of the doodle titled 'Sky's The Limit for Indian Women' depicts a trait of the Indian Woman. "She is graceful and elegant, adept at balancing work and home. She is a go-getter. She personifies motherhood. Even in the face of adversity, she is courageous," Google said.

Doodle4Google (D4G) is an annual competition from the Internet giant for students of 1-10 grade who are invited to design the Google Doodle to celebrate Children's Day.

Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists.

The theme for this year's competition was 'Celebrating Indian Women', and the company received over 1.5 lakh entries, from more than 1,500 schools across 100 cities. The final 12 doodles were shortlisted and put up for online voting.

"Our National Jury Kirron Kher and Ajit Ninan along with the original doodler select the National Winner out of the 12 finalists," Google said.

Among other categories, the doodle made by Madhuram Vatsal of Lucknow, showing all forms of Indian women – a learner, a warrior, a goddess, a dancer, a scholar and a lover of jewellery -- was adjudged best in the category 1 (class 1-3).

The doodle titled 'Women Are Future, Empower Them Better' won in the category 2 (class 4-6), while the same on 'Indian Women Leading Our Country' won in the category 3(Class 7- 10).

All the finalists will receive a Google Goodie bag and an Acer C720 Chromebook.

"Doodle4Google is the perfect platform for the youth of India to showcase their talent on an international platform. It allows youngsters from not just the metros but from Tier II, III and even IV cities to participate, which is evident from the entries seen this year,"

Monday, 14 October 2013

Google Maps Gets Updated 3D Imagery For 50 U.S. Cities!

Google today announced one of its largest updates to Google Maps’ 3D imagery since it launched last year. The service now covers a number of additional cities that weren’t included in the previous releases. Most of these are smaller towns like Las Cruces, NM and Bend, OR. The company also released updated imagery for a number of cities, including, for example, San Francisco, CA.


 
Here is a full list of towns with new or updated 3D imagery:
 

Anniston, AL; Auburn, AL; Barstow, CA; Bastrop, TX; Bend, OR; Birmingham, AL; Boulder City, NV; Buffalo Core, NY; Cape Girardeau, MO; Casper, WY; Cheyenne, WY; Chicago, IL; Chico, CA; College Station, OH; Delano, CA; Desert Hot Springs, CA; Dubuque, IA; Edmonton, NY; Enid, OK; Farmington, NM; Grand Forks, ND; Grand Junction, CO; Great Falls, MT; Hanford, CA; Healdsburg, CA; Helendale, CA; Hot Springs, AR; Idaho Falls, ID; Kelso, WA; Killeen, TX; Las Cruces, NM; Lawton, OK; Leeds, OK; Madera, CA; Malibu, CA; Merced, CA; Modesto, CA; Ocala, FL; Odessa, TX; Ojai, CA; Picture Rocks, AZ; Pittsburgh, PA; Prescott, AZ; Rapid City, SD; Redding, CA; Riverside, CA; San Angelo, TX; San Francisco, CA; St George, UT; Texarkana, TX; Twentynine Palms, CA; Victoria, TX; Winnipeg, TX; Yuba City, CA.


With this update, Google is clearly on a path to bring 3D imagery to the majority of larger U.S. cities, something it promised to do when it first launched this service last year.


Microsoft, which previously featured 3D imagery in its mapping service but then dropped it in Bing Maps, also recently announced that it will add 3D building to its mapping product again. These images, Microsoft says will be newly captured just for this new 3D feature. Microsoft, we hear, plans to launch its 3D imagery for about 100 cities, but it’s not clear if those will all be in the U.S. or if this will be an international launch. The first demo I saw of Microsoft’s service easily rivals Google’s imagery.

 
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