Under the name of Nokia Maps Suite we have, in fact, packaged a series of tools that will help you experience adventures everyday: Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive and Nokia Public Transport are just the beginning. You are going to love all the apps included in the newest release of Nokia Maps Suite. Just point your browser to Nokia Beta Labs to download it now.
My sense is this a two fold effort: first to continue to rebrand mapping from NAVTEQ to Nokia Maps and second to collect what seem to be dozens of LBS apps into a single suite.
- Nokia Conversations Blog
[Waze is] introducing a hands-free way to activate and file reports with the iOS version of the software.
Waze, impatiently waiting for Apple to open up its Siri APIs to developers, has taken the unusual approach of using the iPhone's proximity sensor to activate a voice-controlled interface in its application. A simple wave of the hand will initiate voice-control, allowing drivers to quickly navigate, report traffic, and alert others to road hazards. The app uses Apple's native Siri speech recognition for addresses and local search queries, and will also disable text input while the car is in motion. Unlike Apple's Siri voice control, there's no reason a driver needs to touch the screen or push a button to interact with Waze.
- The Verge
Foursquare last week announced something new: a way to search for venues "where you are not." This is something Yelp and Google do not yet have.
- Co Design
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/13 at 05:09 AM |
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Update 1/25/12:
No word yet from request to NN4D on status request for comment.
Last Tweet from NN4D twitter account: 1/9/12
Website still up
Last post to forum 1/20/12
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A NAVTEQer, writing at Google+ (publicly):
Well, it seems that "The Powers That Be" (Read: Nokia Location & Commerce division) decided to pull the plug on our group, the NAVTEQ Network for Developers and we were all given 2 weeks notice to shut the whole developer network down. The whole team was let go as of last Friday, from our executive VP all the way down to ...
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/24 at 10:02 AM |
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Nokia-powered Yahoo Maps (NokiHoo) have just gone live in the US and Canada: maps.yahoo.com; espanol.maps.yahoo.com; ca.maps.yahoo.com andqc.maps.yahoo.com.
That's the word from Greg Sterling writing at Search Engine Land. He poked around (thanks!) and says the new offering is not impressive, but more is on the way.
I will note that this is the second piece of news this week (the first being Google's plan to actually implement caps on its Maps API) that are "news," but that really impact very few people.
- Search Engine Land
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/28 at 11:06 AM |
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The LiveView application attaches names, links and other tags to objects seen through a handset’s camera viewfinder, while the Pulse application lets users share their map location and status with selected contacts, the company said today. Other applications give public transportation and walking directions for more than 400 cities, and share user-created information on outdoor locations.
- BusinessWeek
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/26 at 03:45 AM |
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PocketGPS World reports:
Nokia will be closing down it's [sic] NAVTEQ mapping and location based services (LBS) operations in Bonn, Germany and Malvern, USA with an expected loss of 1,300 jobs in those divisions. Business operations will consolidate in the Berlin, Boston and Chicago offices.
- PocketGPS World
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by Adena Schutzberg on 09/30 at 05:13 AM |
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