Day: April 23, 2013

Google Street View adds Hungary and Lesotho, hits 50-country milestone

If you’ve been taking far too many virtual road trips after employing the (unofficial) Street View Hyperlapse chauffeur , you may be running out of places to go next. Well, today Google has added Hungary and Lesotho (a country within South Africa) to the list of lands you can vicariously visit, which brings the total number of Street View-catalogued countries to 50. This being the “largest single update” since, well, the last big one , Google has also added “new and updated imagery for nearly 350,000 miles of roads across 14 countries,” including more places of interest for its special collections, thanks to the Street View trike . So, why venture outdoors this lunchtime, when you can wander the streets of Budapest instead? Filed under: Internet , Google Comments Source: Google Lat-Long Blog

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Ultra Mobile debuts $19 calling plan with unlimited international SMS

If you’re living on a tight budget but still need to keep in touch with loved ones who live abroad , you’ll be glad to know of a new calling plan from Ultra Mobile. The upstart MVNO offers discounted access to T-Mobile’s network, and for $19 per month, you’ll fetch unlimited text messages to 194 countries, 250 voice minutes (with $1.25 toward international calling), and 50MB of data usage. For comparison, Simple Mobile offers a $25 plan that includes unlimited international texting and domestic calling, but if you let your thumbs do most of the talking, Ultra Mobile brings a lot of value to the table. You can snag its $19 plan starting tomorrow, which might be the perfect match for whatever Nokia has up its sleeve . Filed under: Wireless , Mobile Comments Source: FierceWireless

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Prisoner of Technology

Feel trapped by technology? In a print campaign for Go Outside magazine, Brazilian designer Felipe Luchi imagined our beloved gadgets as physical prisons: Link (Bonus: if you look closely, you’ll see that there are ways to escape from these prisons) – via Twisted Sifter

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Prisoner of Technology