Building on the existing strategic partnership between Microsoft and Nokia, today we’re announcing that Bing Maps is now using Nokia backend services for Traffic and Geocoding. With the goal of helping get places faster and get more done, here are the key things Nokia services will do for Bing Maps:
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Bing Maps will now offer Nokia-powered traffic results in 24 countries.
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Improved and expanded traffic information in the US, adding traffic fo side streets in addition to freeways.
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Bing Maps will begin using Nokia geocoding countries, offering improved routing and directions.
- Microsoft PR which sends you to this blog post
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/24 at 12:43 PM |
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I continue to be skeptical of solutions that start with "all you have to do is install our infrastructure..." That's an uphill battle!
A Spanish company is hoping to put the word on the street inside the pavement under your feet, starting this summer. Via Inteligente plans to introduce intelligent "iPavement" at this year's International Building & Construction Show in Dubai.
- C|net
Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) in Pakisatan and Nokia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will enable SSGC customer services such as bill information, payment update information, GIS mapping and customer complaint management services on Nokia mobile phones. Now, Nokia phones are owned by a majority of the country's users, but this seems odd based on how things work in the west. Also interesting: does GIS mapping mean that related to the gas company, such as outage maps? That'd be my guess as the offering sounds like it'll be apps from the Nokia store.
- The News Tribe
- Pakistan Observer
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by Adena Schutzberg on 04/30 at 02:59 AM |
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Nokia Drive, now at version 2.0 and now supports offline directions. You can save data directly to the device and navigate without a connection. Data includes posted speed limits and an option to warn you if you are exceeding them.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 03/21 at 03:00 AM |
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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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Narrow your search further:
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local search,
location based services,
navteq,
nokia,
proximity sensor,
siri,
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waze
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.
- press release
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.
- press release
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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