Stacie Rumenap radio interview with Chuck Morse of WDIS in Boston, MA
June 11, 2009

WESTON (CBS4) ―With two children, ages 10 and 7, Ray and Sandra Soriano live in a home filled with video games, computers and hand held digital devices. As summer break arrives for their children, Alex and Sebastian, those devices will get a workout.

But the Sorianos are tech-savvy. They use software to block harmful websites and closely monitor their sons’ online activities, especially when the kids are home during summer break.

“We really have to keep a close eye,” Sandra Soriano said. “Once the computer is on we have to be around. They can’t just be online with no adult supervision.”

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By Thomas Claburn,  InformationWeek
Hide the children and lock the doors. Google Street View is on the loose.

Google on Thursday said that its Google Maps Street View service, much maligned for publishing pictures of public spaces, now offers a new navigation method that allows greater freedom of movement within roadway panoramas.

“Today, we are really excited to introduce a new mode of navigation which liberates you from the road arrows and gets you where you want to go in just a few clicks,” Google computer vision engineer Daniel Filip explained in a post on the Google Lat Long blog. “You can now use Street View’s smart navigation to travel to a new place just by double clicking on the place or object you would like to see.”

Google accomplished the feat of turning periodic panoramic scenes into something more like a continuous corridor of 3-D space by generating virtual building facades and roadway geometry using laser landscape measurements and picture difference comparisons.

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