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While many are waiting for the TomTom application to be released, European software developers NAVIGON have beaten TomTom by releasing an iPhone turn-by-turn navigation app for Europe.

The app, which is available now on the Apple App Store, includes maps for the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as the rest of mainland Europe including France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Switzerland.

One the opening day of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) there was a great announcement from TomTom, the in-car GPS navigation company. The TomTom software is coming to the iPhone!
Peter-Frans Pauwels, TomTom’s co-founder, demonstrated TomTom’s iPhone navigation software during the keynote presentation.

Ok, so the WWDC (Worldwide developers conference) has started and in my opinion, the opening Keynote from the Apple developers is the most important thing of the event, as Apple announces its plans for the coming year and also go over a few things that are set to be hot topics!
Apple showed off three new [...]

When Janina Valiente head home after a hard day at work in San Francisco she had little idea she would be mugged. As she watched the thief take off with her bag, however, her quick thinking and a little help from an internet giant would bring her possessions back and the assailant to justice.

If there’s one thing that seems to be hitting phone shops more and more, it’s yet another touch screen handset. So how do you differentiate from the pack? Well Garmin and Asus have teamed up to bring out the nuvifone G60 and nuvifone M20. Both are touchscreen handsets, but both are also first and foremost, Sat Navs. So will this blend come together as well as 25 year old whisky or is it a case of mixing oil and water? Let’s take a look.

Recently, it may have come to your attention that Microsoft and TomTom, the satnav maker, have reached a settlement over a patent dispute. The dispute revolves around the FAT file system, and it’s use in the TomTom’s Linux based OS. Microsoft said that the use of this file system infringed their patent, and so to court.

There has been many a debate as to whether technology is making people lazy. And, perhaps, stupid. Let’s take Sat Navs for example. How many people in the UK alone do you reckon use a Sat Nav? Well, if that Sat Nav told you to jump in a fire, would you? If it directed you [...]

For anyone who has a car, there is the attached guilt of owning and using a gas guzzler. Practically, we’re not going to give up our modern conveniences, so it’s up to innovation to help us live our lives the way we do now, but with a reduced carbon footprint.
Enter the Econav. Like any [...]

The legendary Stevie Wonder turned up at a press conference co-hosted by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and Sendero Group on 8th January, asking manufacturers to consider the visually impaired when they design mobile phones and other such gadgets.
Stevie spoke of wanting to encourage manufacturers to make technology more accessible to the visually [...]

TomTom have gone back to the drawing board with the TomTom XL V2 GB and produced a widescreen Sat Nav with innovative design features (including a foldable suction cap) and TomTom’s usual high quality navigational technology. It’s usually priced a bit too high for my liking, but we’ve gone out and found a good Christmas deal with this particular model.