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
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MomentFeed. Inc., the first location-based marketing platform for the enterprise and a leader in the SoLoMo space, today announced a partnership with foursquare to claim venues on behalf of its clients, providing an interface to efficiently manage hundreds or thousands of locations.
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Weather Underground, the world's first online weather service, announced today the availability of a time component to its interactive weather map, WunderMap(R), that enables users to go back in time and view weather overlays from historically significant storms such as Hurricane Katrina or last year's Hurricane Irene. The time controls also move the map forward to plot forecasted weather for up to 10 days into the future.
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Nokia/NAVTEQ are accused of using Thai map data from Globaltech Ltd without permission. They are asked to pay about $17 million.-
- The Nation
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/06 at 05:37 AM |
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In another sign Nokia is reshaping itself comes its decision to get out of the advertising business.
Finnish group Nokia has sold its media advertising business to a U.S. startup Matchbin as it focuses on core businesses, a company spokesman said on Friday without disclosing detail of the deal.
That group employed 180.
- Reuters
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/27 at 07:21 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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Vlad Savov, at The Verge, argues the latest update of Nokia 3D Maps is not just pretty, but useful.
Nokia's web-based Maps 3D client has grown exponentially more useful today with the introduction of new search, directions, and social sharing options. You can now explore any of 25 cities around the world by items of interest, check out reviews of local businesses where available, and obtain walking or driving directions to any destination within the city limits. Routes can then be shared on Facebook, Twitter, or via the conveniently provided shortened URL, and the same can also be done with any locations on the map. The whole experience is accompanied by grand, sweeping animations that zoom you in and out of locations. Maps 3D was always a very pretty exhibition of the world's most popular cities, but now that it's added legitimate utility to its arsenal, we're only left to wonder when we'll see it as a native app on our Windows Phones.
- The Verge
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/07 at 05:10 AM |
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