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We’ve been big fans of the Waze app because it provides free social traffic and navigation data, so it’s good to see that the company is announcing that it has hit more than five million users and that it is updating its Android app. The five million number mark is a good milestone for the…
Wikitude, one of the earliest augmented reality apps, has just launched a new product called Wikitude Drive. Well, “new” is a relative term; they’ve actually been working on this product for a couple of years now. Much like its points of interest browser, the Wikitude Drive overlays driving directions on top of a live image…
As rumored, Google Maps will now allow you to download map data locally to your phone, so you can still get detailed information even when you’re outside of coverage. Currently available in the Maps Labs, all you have to do is find a Place page that you intend to be visiting, go to the More…
While we’re waiting for offline Navigation, Google Maps for Android has been updated with a different nav-related feature: stop-by-stop info for transit. Sounds extraneous, considering Mr. Bus Driver already has a pretty good idea of where he’s going, right? Right, but you still need to know where to hop off. Transit Navigation, not only can…
Google is always working overtime to bring their Android users services and features that make their lives easier, and they continue to do so with some fresh updates to Google Navigation and mobile search. The update introduced to us today includes a new feature that catapults Navigation to the level of SD-based navigation systems. There…
Google Maps for Android has been updated to version 5.5, including a handful of new features. Place pages now provide the option to check in on Latitude and leave a rating out of five stars. Recently Google’s location history service tied in with Latitude could start tracking how much time we spend at work, home,…
For those who have no problems sharing their location info with their social networks, it seems that Facebook Places is the top choice for letting friends and family know where you are, who you’re with and what you’re doing. It’s not surprising since location-based social networking apps like Foursquare seemed to be used by only…
After a few short weeks of heavy criticism, Apple is rumored to be releasing iOS 4.3.3 soon to address a location tracking issue. For quite some time now, iPhone and iPad 3G devices had been logging and time-stamping its users’ location information and storing it in a file within its system. That information would then…
Awhile back, RIM launched the BBM Social platform, which allowed BlackBerry developers to plug into RIM’s signature messenger client. The first to offer the function is Telmap thanks to the open beta launched last month. They’re a GPS service provider that powers apps from Orange, Telefonica, SFR, and other wireless carriers. The new function simply…
Over the last week, privacy concerns have led to a bit of paranoia regarding the iPhone and its ability to record and store accurate location data for its users. It was discovered that the iPhone and iPad 3G would log user data and time stamp it, revealing a relatively detailed map of where the user…