Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) on Monday introduced a Google Earth application for the Apple (NASD: AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch, which will allow users to zoom in on satellite images of the planet. The free Google Earth application is available in 18 locations, and will function on both first- and second-generation iPhones operating on EDGE, 3G and Wi-Fi networks. The application also includes a "Search Near Me" function that will bring up local results like nearby pizza parlors.

Mountain View, Calif. - Google has launched a new feature on YouTube that allows users to find YouTube videos connected to specific locations through its Google Earth application. The feature works with YouTube videos that uploaders have "geotagged" with information on where they were captured, and may be played either within Google Earth or through YouTube itself.

Alicante, Spain - Panoramio, a photo storage and sharing site that has been tightly integrated with Google Earth, announced this week that it has reached an agreement to be acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum.

London - Google Earth will soon allow users to hear sounds associated with the vast and varied locations it provides zoom-in satellite imagery for, NewScientist reported. Glen Ellen, Calif.-based Wild Sanctuary is currently using software it created to embed sounds ranging form bird calls to whale songs to melting glacier cracks into Google Earth; founder Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting over 3,500 hours of Earth sounds. The software is slated to become available to users on May 29, when it will also be presented at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, Calif.