Google helps you get a room with new hotel finder tool

Google's new tool allows travellers to search for hotels nearby certain tourist attractions, where they can also filter by travel time, price, ratings and reviews.
 

Surga Central customers sign up by the dozen

Sydney-based Adept Business Systems has reported strong initial demand for Surga Central, Adept’s new cloud-based commercial real estate software application. Launched at the end of 2011, twelve agencies in Australia have already made a commitment to the new product.
 

Google Maps - we know what you're looking at

SSL traffic analysis is good enough to see exactly what location you're looking at on Google Maps.
 

SuccessFactors takes data to VMware Cloud Foundry

An agreement between SuccessFactors and VMware gives customers the ability to build applications on VMware's Cloud Foundry that use data from Employee Central and other SuccessFactors software.
 

Need a taxi? There's an app for that

A free iPhone and Android app, myTaxi, has the potential to revolutionise the taxi market in Australia, disintermediating the lucrative phone booking services.
 

Weather arrives on Google Maps

Google has added a weather layer to Google Maps, making it quick and easy to check weather conditions at your location or destination.
 

Google's Street View Wi-Fi cleanup completed months ago

Google has used Privacy Awareness Week to reveal it completed the deletion of Australian Wi-Fi payload data 'mistakenly' collected by its Street View cars as long ago as February.
 

Google Maps Street View Pegman catches royal wedding fever

The world seems to be going crazy over the royal wedding. Even Google Maps' Pegman has found a bride and is dressed up for the altar.
 

Google Earth: Boldy go ogle what no one has ogled before

From tales of discovering the lost city of Atlantis, to the latest discovery from an Australian whose Google Earth armchair archaeology suggests large parts of Saudi Arabia are “immensely rich in archaeological remains” and “probably several thousand years old", armchair archaeologists are finding new things to go ogle!
 

Go ogle Google getting out of the Schmidt

With Google’s soon-to-be former-CEO Eric Schmidt having made a series of unforgivably weird pronouncements on privacy, the Schmidt seems to have finally hit the fan, with Google now turning a not-so-new Page on the CEO position.