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Google Adds Turn-by-Turn Bicycling Navigation to Maps Apps
Bicyclists have a new, hands-free way to navigate their journeys, courtesy of Google.
The search giant this week added GPS-enabled mobile biking directions and navigation for headphones connected to smartphones, and brought turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation to Google Maps Navigation beta.
U.S. and Canadian users, who already had access to biking directions in the Android Google Maps app, got an update Wednesday to include the new navigation function. The new service is being made available in 10 more countries as well.
While riding, a bicyclist can keep an eye on real-time map directions or turn on speaker mode to listen to directions, Google said.
Last month, Google launched its desktop biking directions in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K., all of which will have access to the new mobile feature.
"We know how popular cycling is in many parts of the world, so we wanted to include as much bike trail data as possible to provide efficient routes, allow riders to customize their trips, make use of bike lanes, calculate rider-friendly routes that avoid big hills and busy roads, and to customize the look of the cycling map to encourage people to hop on their bikes," Google Maps product manager Kai Hansen said in a July blog post.
Biking directions launched on the U.S. and Canadian Google Maps Android apps in 2010. Now, there are more than 330,000 miles (more than 530,000 kilometers, or just over half a gigameter, for our international readers), of green biking lines in Google Maps.
The dark green lines signify dedicated bike trails and paths, like through parks or along waterways, where motor vehicles are restricted. Light green lines show streets where bike lanes are available on streets with vehicle traffic, and dashed green lines provide a visual of other streets recommended for cycling.
Google's tools also help bicyclists avoid steep hills.
Working with members of the cycling community, and with the support of nonprofits like the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Google has been able to add bike data for hundreds of cities and trails since it launched the bicycling option two years ago.
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Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409140,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000762
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Cuba reports mixed results of labor reform
HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba's five-year plan to cut more than a million state jobs, create a strong "non-state sector" and improve wages has made only limited progress, according to a government report released this week.
Authorities announced the shift of state workers to private and leased small businesses and farming in late 2009 as the core of a broader reform of the state-dominated economy that employed 90 percent of the workforce.
Authorities want to streamline the state and pull it out of secondary economic activity in order to focus on improving the efficiency of larger state-run companies and the wages they pay employees.
The report, "Workforce and Salaries," revealed some progress in self-employment, often a euphemism for small businesses and their employees, and cutting bureaucratic jobs, but little improvement in wages. (http://www.one.cu/aec2011/esp/20080618_tabla_cuadro.htm)
The report said there were 5 million people employed in 2011, similar to 2009, while unemployment rose from 86,000 to 164,000.
Of those working, 391,500 were self-employed in 2011, compared with 147,400 in 2009, when the government loosened regulations on small businesses.
More than 170,000 individuals have also taken advantage of a land lease program begun in 2008, the government recently reported.
There was some significant progress reported in trimming the bureaucracy. The number of "directors" fell from 380,000 in 2009 to 249,000 in 2011.
But if the shift from state to non-state employment is aimed in part at improving state wages and thus performance, to date the plan has failed.
The average monthly wage increased from 429 pesos in 2009 to 455 in 20l1, the equivalent of just over a dollar based on the official exchange rate of 25 to 1, not nearly enough to stimulate productivity.
The government reported food prices alone increased 20 percent in 2011.
Cubans spend most of their wages on food, as health and education are free, few pay rents or mortgages, there is no insurance, and few pay income and property taxes.
(Editing by David Adams and Eric Beech)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cuba-reports-mixed-results-labor-reform-225325333--business.html
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Video: The Job Unhappiness Survey
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