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| First Free Mobile Guide of Cyprus Launched - PR.com Posted: Launched by Mobiexplore, specialized mobile publisher, it offers local maps, guide to attractions, restaurants, and other things you can enjoy on Cyprus. Discover the island of Aphrodite on your mobile and save on roaming costs. London, United Kingdom, March 02, 2011 --(PR.com)-- A new mobile travel guide, mobiEXPORE Cyprus is now available for all those interested in Cyprus. Launched by Mobiexplore, specialized mobile publisher, the application offers local maps, guide to attractions, restaurants, service info and various activities you can enjoy on Cyprus. The app also enables you to make a real-time booking with best rates for over 200 hotels on Cyprus, powered by booking.com - one of the world's leading online hotel reservations agencies. mobiEXPORE Cyprus is the first free mobile guide of the island available on iPhone's App Store and Nokia's Ovi Store, with all other mobile phones supported through GetJar. For iPhone and Nokia users there is an additional benefit, since most of the app content is offline, using mobiEXPLORE helps keep their roaming costs low. So regardless of the mobile phone you have, mobiEXPORE can help you find that charming pottery shop in Nicosia, taste the famous local wines in the wineries of Limmasol region, explore the cycling routes, local taverns, take a stroll on the Aphrodite trail or even help with organizing a wedding - after all, this is an island where the goddess of love rose from the waves. All that and much more you can explore with this handy mobile application, so undertake a voyage of discovery with your mobile, to this island at the crossroads of three continents. ### About Mobiexplore This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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The images are up on Google Maps today and we'll no doubt soon see how the engineers at Google have opened people's private lives up to scrutiny they did not invite. All so Google can have better images to sell their advertisers' products around the world. Will Google be adequately blurring the faces of people out of their online photographs? Go look at this tricycle shot of Legoland and see what you think. Bet those families that day didn't realize they were being photographed to boost Google's bottom line. Did these families have a reasonable expectation that their family photo wouldn't be open to millions of eyes, and used to sell Google advertising services? Will it be outing college students who don't want their parents to know what's in their dorm window, people who don't want their employers or clients to know what flags they fly or signs they hang on their rural roads, people who built extensions on their home, but didn't tell the city permitting office? There's no blurring the identity of people driving certain cars on certain roads near their homes. I don't want my kids photographed in a playground, or on a class trip to a park or historical site as Google's tricycles are rolling through. Google claims it will blur faces, but we'll just have to see how much it values privacy over its desire to put images of everywhere and everything online for everyone to see, just so that advertisers will pay a bigger price to advertise on those pages. This is creepy stuff. Let's hope this is one time the privacy cops at Google were giving clear direction to the engineers. My bet is we'll be hearing the fallout soon. More importantly, Google isn't publishing a newspaper, where photos of people in public places are allowed. Google is taking pictures to make more money from it's contextual advertising. Google makes its money one way -- advertising. Our right to privacy shouldn't be usurped by Google so it can make billions of dollars off images of us and our things.
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