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Google has added a Street View feature to Google Maps on iOS browsers, “allowing iPhone 5 and iOS 6 users to once again experience street-level photography currently unavailable in Apple’s own Maps app,” notes “Forbes” (http://macte.ch/InhoL).

To access Street View, click on the icon at the bottom of a map in Google Maps. the map. Once the image has loaded, it works just like Street View did in Google’s own Maps app on iOS prior to its removal, or Street View in any other web browser, notes “Forbes.”

Samsung’s Shin Jong-kyun will meet with Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Seoul tomorrow, and “it’s a safe bet the topic of Apple will come up,” according to “CNET.”

The meeting comes a little more than a month after Samsung lost a major patent case to Apple in the U.S. A California jury verdict found that Samsung knowingly infringed on Apple patents and awarded the iPhone maker more than $1 billion in damages.

Apple hired Sally Cole away from Google as the director of Employee Communications in August, according to “9to5Mac” (www.9to5Mac.com).

According to her LinkedIn profile, she was the director of Internal Communications at Google before Apple nabbed her. She has also served as senior director, Strategy, at the Gap and deputy chief of staff for the US EPA. Cole has an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Despite rumors to the contrary, Google isn’t working on providing Google Maps for the iOS 6 after Apple dropped the app in favor of a home-grown (and much maligned) app dubbed Maps, reports “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/ikIba).

“We think it would have been better if they had kept ours. But what do I know?” Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a small group of reporters in Tokyo. “What were we going to do, force them not to change their mind? It’s their call.”