February is kind of a lucky month, not only because I was allocated on planet earth in this month but also because it was the real kick off for revolutionary location based services in real world. Location based services are dependent services or solutions which are brought to a requester by either automatically detecting their current real-time location or by manually setting it up on [...]

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Yes! It does look like a dream comes true for those who had been waiting for ages. Google Places, renamed from Local Business Centre this April, is a free of charge web based service by Google where business owners can claim their businesses alongside publishing all important and useful information for their customers and have it all layered out at top of world widely famous [...]

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A devastating disaster larger than recent three natural disasters (Indian Ocean Tsunami, Pakistan Earthquake & Haiti Earthquake) have left an impact over 20 million people in Pakistan. A huge area almost equal to the size of UK, still in disturbance with settlements, livestock & crops washed away leaving a threatening situation for the country that highly relies on its agriculture industry. A huge area of [...]

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Google Street View is a feature available on Google Mapping products where users can switch to a view consisting of manually taken 360° angled street/road photos with 9 cameras at 2.5 m elevation on a moving vehicle. These photos are then processed to make a panoramic view to provide a feeling of being at that place. Due to privacy matters, faces and vehicles registration plates [...]

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4th of January 2010, was a dreadful day for inhabitants of Hunza-Nagar district in Gilgit-Baltistan, especially the residents of Atta Abad and Aina Abad. Background In result of long lasting cracks in mountains due to earthquake in late 2009, a massive landslide hit the area by burying the both villages, killing more than 20 people and several of them injured. Hundreds of the residents became [...]

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