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Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping Apr 6th 2012, 16:49 Are folks still getting lost in the faux marble expanse of your airport or shopping mall, even after you've uploaded the floor plan to Google Maps? Then maybe it's time you went the extra mile and improved indoor mapping using the official Floor Plan Marker app. It instructs you to walk around the "entire surface" of your place of interest, while gathering position data from GPS, public WiFi signals and cell towers. Once added to Google's database, this extra info will allow the familiar blue dot to function on your customers' Android phones even when your actually-concrete building gets in the way of their satellite signal. The app's already available at Google Play, so go ahead -- make the schlep now so that others don't have to. Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Google Blogspot, Google Play  | Email this | Comments American Idol gets Shazamed, Captain Marvel ashamed to be eliminated before the live finals Apr 6th 2012, 16:02 Shazam has a-ha-ha-ha-nounced that the re-he-ma-hay-ning episodes of vowel-adding warble-fest American Idol will be tied into its music-identifying app. During each of the shows, it'll offer up the set list, behind the scenes videos and let you buy both the live cover versions and original editions of classic songs -- usually hewn from a simpler, gentler time before Mariah Carey was seen as someone worth em-hem-hem-ulating. In addition viewers will be able to get photos of their favorite contestants, but we won't be interested unless there's a generous dose of Jeff Winger Ryan Seacrest tucked in there too. Continue reading American Idol gets Shazamed, Captain Marvel ashamed to be eliminated before the live finals American Idol gets Shazamed, Captain Marvel ashamed to be eliminated before the live finals originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on Apr 6th 2012, 15:17 Until now, Amped Wireless has been best known for its industrial networking gear, capable of maintaining a signal up to 1.5 miles away from the base station. Now, though, the outfit's also selling some equipment for folks with a more modest setup: the R10000G Home Router and SR10000 Smart Repeater, which promise to coat 10,000 square feet of your abode / office in robust, high-quality WiFi. Of course, we just had to test these claims out for ourselves, and see if these units really were formidable enough to leave our own router crying in the corner. We devised three simple experiments to see how they hold up in the real world -- head on past the break to find out how they fared. Gallery: Amped Wireless R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on Continue reading Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on Amped Wireless High Power R10000G Router and Smart Repeater hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

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