Sat Nav
Google Maps With Turn by Turn Navigation
The combination of GPS and mobile phone to create a satnav system is very useful and this year TomTom started selling their navigation software for the iPhone. Now Google is entering the market and it is doing an amazing thing, it is giving away turn-by-turn GPS navigation, with voice guidance, for free in its Google Maps for mobiles software.
TomTom for iPhone Available on App Store
TomTom for the iPhone 3G and 3G S has now hit the virtual shelves of Apple’s App Store. It’s not the first sat nav application that has been produced for the world’s most popular handset, but it has caused the most excitement thanks to the branding, and the cool tech involved.
The new TomTom app includes [...]
The Top 10 iPhone Apps to Help Out The Single Man!
Dating….It’s a tricky old subject as it is one of the few things to have evolved as society has. It used to be simple a long time ago, a quick club to the head of your rival and the girl was yours! Now though, we all know it’s pretty much a competitive game between both [...]
NAVIGON Releases Navigation App for the iPhone; Includes UK and Ireland Maps
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.
TomTom Comes to the iPhone
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.
WWDC 2009: The Keynote Round Up!
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 [...]
Is Google making 007 a reality?
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.
Preview: Video Demo of the Garmin Nuvifone G60 and M20 GPS Phone
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.
Linux foundation chew the FAT.
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.
Sat Navs VS Common Sense
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 [...]
