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Foursquare Cleans Up Profile Pages, Hints At Key New Metrics?
Foursquare wants to be “the new age experience provider” for brands
Foursquare ‘s head of business development, Tristan Walker, in a panel today at TechCrunch ‘s Crunchup conference said that Foursquare focuses on three levels of deals: mom and pop corner stores, retail chains and brands. Regarding brands, Walker said that Foursquare wants to be brands’ “new age experience provider.”
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Send Destinations via Google Maps to Ford and GM Vehicles
Google’s “Send-To-Car” feature lets users send destinations from Google Maps directly to their vehicles. This feature previously worked with BMW and Audi vehicles, and now Google has extended its partner base for the program to Ford and GM. Owners of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles enabled with Ford’s SYNC system, as well as Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Hummer, Pontiac, Saab or Saturn vehicles via GM’s OnStar navigation, can now take advantage of the “Send-to-Car” function.
Occipital , the people who brought you RedLaser, have just changed iPhone photography in a big way.
360 Panorama brings real-time panoramic photography to the iPhone.
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Apple acquires Poly9. Apple Earth coming soon?
In a huge announcement detailed on AppleInsider, we’ve just found out that Apple has acquired mapping company Poly9. Poly9 has done some amazing work with mapping, including the Poly9 Globe project, which is quite akin to Google Earth, but weighs in at only 303kb and can run in any platform.
Quantum memory may topple Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
A quantum memory may be all scientists need to beat the limit of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, according to a paper published in Nature Physics .Last month an (almost) real-time tube map got people talking when it launched as one of the first projects to use Transport for London’s API . It was an exciting example of what can happen when open data is set free to be used by developers in whatever ways their imagination takes them. The problem is that apart from Transport for London, there really isn’t any real-time data out there for people to use – yet.
Loved the real-time tube map? There’s more like it on the way…
By Katie Marsal Published: 09:45 AM EST (06:45 AM PST) Apple has purchased a Web-based mapping company from Quebec, Canada, that creates interactive 3D software for use in a browser, according to a new report. French-Canadian news site cyberpresse.ca reported Wednesday (via Google Translate) that Poly9 has been purchased by Apple, and a majority of the company's employees were moved to California.
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By Sam Oliver Published: 08:10 AM EST (05:10 AM PST) This summer, Apple quietly purchased the worldwide mapping company Placebase -- one that competed with Google's own Maps product, featured on the iPhone. Reports of the purchase of Placebase, maker of Pushpin and openplaces.org, first surfaced in July.