From Google LatLong Blog:
Welcome to Russia! You can now virtually travel through the world’s largest country to the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg using Google Maps Street View.
Take an online stroll around famous Red Square and Moscow Kremlin, or go to outskirts of Moscow to wander around the beautiful Tsaritsino or Kuskovo parks. You can also visit the former site of the palace in Kolomenskoye, once considered the 8th World Wonder.
We’re taking bird’s eye view to a whole new level with the latest version of Google Earth, released today. With Google Earth 6.2, we’re bringing you the most beautiful Google Earth yet, with more seamless imagery and a new search interface. Additionally, we’ve introduced a feature that enables you to share an image from within Google Earth, so you can now simply and easily share your virtual adventures with family and friends on Google+.
A seamless globe
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It’s been out for almost a year on the iPhone, and longer than that as a web app. Now Google Translate has been enlarged for the iPad. The app can translate between 63 languages via text. Will talk to you in 24, and can understand 17 languages if spoken too. If you’re traveling in a far-off land and you want to communicate, you can display your translation in full screen mode. You could hold your iPad up and tell the natives that their country is awesome. Or you could use it to hail a cab. Your choice. [iTunes]
via Google Translate Goes Grande On the iPad.
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Alarm clock utilities for Android are a dime-a-dozen, and ultimately choosing the best one comes down to the features you need. Even so, after testing several of the more popular ones on in the Android App Market, we think that Alarm Clock XTreme is the most feature-rich and useful alarm clock available for Android, thanks to its display customization features, unique alarm settings, and more.