Rob DeCola

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Senior Digital Producer at The Boston Globe

Boston Journalist, Media Consumer, Semi-hardcore Gamer and End User. I saw Spaceballs before Star Wars as a kid and it messed me up. Subscribe to a newspaper.

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For Google Maps users in the US, it’s now the Gulf of America

Feb 11, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | Rob DeCola

For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water bound to the east by Florida and to the west by the Yucatan Peninsula is now the Gulf of America. “People using Maps in the US will see ‘Gulf of America,’ and people in Mexico will see ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ Everyone else will see both names,” the company said in a statement Monday.
It’s not just you. Cellular network outage hits nationwide.

Feb 21, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Rob DeCola

Network outages on some major cellular carriers are affecting customers’ service across Greater Boston Thursday morning, according to media reports and downdetector.com, a site that tracks internet interruptions. Both phone and data service on AT&T, Verizon, Cricket, and T-Mobile networks seemed to be impacted. Both “#AT&T” and “#outage” were trending on X.com, formerly Twitter, in the United States as users woke up to the outage.