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...opportunity to “crank up the radio and sing the whole way to Yale.” One disadvantage to driving: “I don’t know how to get there,” said Fliegel. She said she plans to check MapQuest and ask her dad for directions before leaving on Friday. Finally, some students’ transportation to Yale may be more noticeable than others. A group of about 16 students from Quincy and Currier Houses have rented a Cadillac Escalade limousine to take them to the game. The chauffeured vehicle...
...AutoLink button on the toolbar each time they want to activate the new links, "it is a user-elected feature," says Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. Mayer says the company plans to give users more say. The map feature allows people to select Yahoo or MapQuest, though Google Maps is the default setting...
Offering maps and driving directions with clarity, detail and style, Google Maps maps.google.com poses a threat to MapQuest. --By Wilson Rothman
What are all these folks doing with their wireless connections? Getting the Net wirelessly means having access to all the things that come with it--e-mail and instant messaging, news from the New York Times or ABC, detailed driving directions from MapQuest, even remote access to eBay auctions. And little doesn't mean less. Cell phones rely on a software standard called Wireless Application Protocol, which custom fits Web content onto those cramped little displays. Palm Inc., for its part, uses its own Web "clipping" technology to pull information onto its PDAs...
...Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs Group won't be convinced. But their company's smashing $3.7 billion initial public stock offering last week--spreading wealth up and down the ladder--was less noteworthy than a handful of Internet IPOs that flopped. Say what? Yes, flopped. Shares of online map company Mapquest and online advertising company Flycast failed to double in a day--a stiff bogey but one that Internet companies have been hitting all year. Meanwhile, online real estate company Comps.com actually fell...