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Sports Tracker example. Lady Geek TV | A Mobile App Show- testing the best smart-phone apps in the real world. Lady Geek TV (ladygeektv) Vidéos publiées par Nokia UK : Lady Geek App Show on Health and Fitness [HD] Introduction to Sports Tracker. Sports Tracker. Nokia viNe. Plazes. Nokia viNe Concept Viral. Nokia UK Ovi Maps – Features. Nokia Launches Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation Around The World. For the past few days, Nokia has been trying to get everyone excited about.. something. They piqued our interests by sending out press event invites (for separate events in the UK and the US, no less), then revved the hype machine with a good ol’ fashion countdown timer. The US announcement is still a few hours away, but they just pulled back the curtain over in the UK — and while we can’t say for certain, I’m pretty sure the talk of the event will be the same on this side of the pond. The big secret? Free turn-by-turn navigation is now available for roughly 20 million Nokia handsets around the world.
To dive a bit deeper into that “20 million.. handsets” number, we’re talking about users speaking 46 different languages across 74 different countries. Some of the features of the new, free Ovi Maps with Navigation: So why did Nokia suddenly decide to make turn-by-turn navigation free to anyone rocking a compatible handset? Nokia To Bring Free, Global Turn-By-Turn Navigation to its Smart.
With New Ovi Maps, Nokia Seeks Location Heaven. Nokia's Ovi Maps In an attempt to ward off competition from the likes of Google, Nokia, the largest maker of mobile phones, has released the latest version of its Ovi Maps software and made the app available for free. Nokia, despite an early start in the mobile phone-focused maps and navigation space, has lost attention to Google and Apple’s mapping and navigation efforts.
With the new Ovi Maps app, the company is hitting back, especially at Google. More importantly, it’s Nokia’s big chance to become the GPS device maker of choice in countries where standalone navigation devices are still hard to find. “Maps and navigation are as core and natural in a phone as digital cameras,” Tero Ojanperä, Nokia’s EVP of services, said to me about Nokia’s new release. “We think that the mobile phone-based navigation market is about to take off in a big way. I would agree — and I think it’s further bad news for the standalone GPS companies such as Tom Tom and Garmin. SAMSUNG France - Main. GyPSii. GyPSii (GyPSiiMobile)
Sony Ericsson - Sony Ericsson. Gokivo Navigator Onto New Windows Mobi. Unlike most other smartphone platforms, Windows Mobile doesn’t come with a mapping application pre-installed by default. While this may very well change with the soon-to-be-announced Windows Mobile 7, it has thus far been up to the handset manufacturer to throw in a map app if they so choose.
Later this week, messaging/location technology providers TCS will announce that Sony Ericsson has chosen their turn-by-turn application, Gokivo, to be pre-loaded onto future Sony Ericsson-made Windows Mobile devices. The first Sony Ericsson handset to come with Gokivo out of the box will be the Aspen, which was just announced last week. This is pretty big news for TCS; they just acquired the company behind Gokivo, Networks In Motion, back in December, and this is the first time any manufacturer has chosen to pre-install the app at the factory. The flagship features, according to TCS: Local SearchTraffic and WeatherLocation Sharing. Gokivo. Apple. Here Comes Apple Earth. Map Startup Poly9 Reportedly Snatched Up By Cupertino. In April, Apple Ditched Google And Skyhook In Favor Of Its Own Location Databases.
As you’re undoubtedly aware, location is one of the hottest fields out there right now. Startups, services, devices, and advertisers are all hovering around it. As you’re also likely well aware, Apple likes to be in control of their own devices. So it should come as no surprise to hear that Apple is moving to be in complete control of their own location database. Back in June, Apple changed its privacy policy to reflect some of the newer things they were doing with regard to location.
This worried some people — including two U.S. Congressmen who sent a letter to Apple asking about the change. A couple weeks ago, Apple responded to that inquiry with a letter from Apple’s general counsel, Bruce Sewell. Here’s the passage (highlights are mine): To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to comprehensive location-based information. It has to be particularly nice for Apple to be able to ditch Google in this regard.
Apple Gets A Mapmaker. Where Does That Leave Google? In case you haven’t had enough location-based news tonight, here’s another very interesting bit. It looks like Apple has very quietly bought an online mapping company, Seth Weintraub of Computerworld reports tonight. Apple’s purchase of Placebase actually took place this past July, and a founder of a partner company that was using Placebase maps tweeted about it. But it slid under most people’s radars as that was the only news out there about it.
But Weintraub dug up Placebase CEO Jaron Waldman’s LinkedIn profile tonight, and sure enough, he is now part of the “Geo Team” at Apple. Here’s why this is very interesting: It could well signal yet another rift in the relationship between Google and Apple. Obviously, much has been made about Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice app, but remember too that they also rejected (or did not approve, whatever) Google’s Latitude app, forcing Google to make a browser-based version. Or maybe not. [photo: flickr/Manitoba Historical Maps] Placebase: The Power of Place.
How Placebase Survived Google Maps. Three years ago, when Google launched Google Maps for free, the whole world was agog with what you could find. One man who wasn’t thrilled: Jaron Waldman, founder of Los Angeles-based startup Placebase. He was contemplating starting a white-label mapping business when Google went and made the value proposition of his idea disappear. After all, it’s hard to compete with free.
Or so you would think. Waldman thought differently. He decided to compete with Google and other free mapping services by doing two things: One, by offering customizations and tons of features that integrated private and public data sets in many diverse ways. (He knew it would be a while before Google would get around to offering customization). Two years on, his strategy seems to be paying off — the company, which is completely bootstrapped (read again: no VC dollars), is doing a few million dollars in revenues and is profitable.