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Vodafone today said it has shut down Wayfinder, the company providing its subscription GPS service.
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Vodafone axes paid GPS following Nokia, Google apps
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It is no secret that the iPhone can replace 3-4 of our favorite gadgets all at once. We do not need to carry an Mp3 player; iPhone holds as many songs as an iPod Nano.
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3 Cheap Voice Navigation Apps for the iPhone
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New York Times (blog) Google Maps Out Happy Trails for Bicycle Riders TechNewsWorld Bicyclists in 150 US cities can now use Google Maps to figure out the best way to go from Point A to Point B on two wheels. The move “reaffirms the legitimacy of cycling as a form of transportation,” said New York blogger BikeSnobNYC … Google Maps for Biking: Where's the Mobile App? PC World Hands On with Google Maps' Biking Directions PC Magazine Google Maps now generates bike routes BetaNews Atlantic Online ?- ChannelWeb ?- Los Angeles Times (blog) all 388 news articles??
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ABC News Hands On with Google Maps' Biking Directions PC Magazine Ever biked on a dedicated bicycle lane?
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Hands On with Google Maps’ Biking Directions – PC Magazine
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Bikers rejoice, Google has just added intelligent biking directions for more than 12,000 U.S. bike trails as a new option inside Google Maps. The company writes that the new biking features will “include as much bike trail data as possible, provide efficient routes, allow riders to customize their trip, make use of bike lanes, calculate rider-friendly routes that avoid big hills and customize the look of the map for cycling to encourage folks to hop on their bikes.” The new option now sits next to the current Google Maps standbys — car, public transit and walking — for...
New location-based social search tool FourWhere shows Foursquare tips and comments using Google Maps so you can search and discover what everyone is saying about nearby places. Users simply input a location or address into FourWhere, right-click (control click) on the map and select display preferences. The map can display all comments nearby, all venues in the vicinity and/or remove venues without tips
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Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere
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An ongoing festival in London is offering a unique way of keeping up with happenings: following a tweeting bike on Twitter. The East Festival — boasting a “uniquely rich creative mix of East London” — will be documented in part by the “Twike”, a two-wheeled creation from Pete Fowler , who is no doubt tired of being described as the Super Furry Animal’s in-house artist. The Twike for the East Festival has been fitted with a cell phone programmed to tweet out messages when it comes within range of key areas of the festival.
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GMAIL USERS: You’re welcome to join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account . Google Buzz is not a rival to Facebook or Twitter, says Google exec Bradley Horowitz — instead he sees it as a platform for conversation, and hopes other services will be able to flow in and out of Buzz. In an eWeek interview earlier this week, Horowitz, Google’s VP of product management, was asked whether Buzz was intended as a challenger to Twitter and Facebook. He replied: Absolutely not
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Google Buzz Not a Twitter or Facebook Killer, Says Google Exec
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Over 100,000 copies of the TomTom iPhone app have been downloaded, the company claims in its latest quarterly results. The title is one of the more expensive ones at the App Store, currently costing at least $60 in a US-only edition. It does however supply functions not available in Google Maps, namely turn-by-turn instructions….
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TomTom claims over 100,000 iPhone app downloads
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Plan Multi-Stop Trips With Route4Me
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Here’s a nice surprise from Google’s Maps team: just like Gmail, Google Maps now also have the Labs feature (it’s the little green vial in the top right menu), which brings experimental new features for you to try out. Right now, you can try out nine new features (all disabled by default): Drag ‘n’ Zoom – lets you zoom in on a specific part of the map by drawing a box. Aerial Imagery – gives you rotatable, high-resolution overhead imagery, but it’s only available in certain areas. Google plans to add more over time, though
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What do you get when you cross social isolation, money and Google Maps? A truly odd live-streaming event from Justin.tv called “Man in a Box.” On February 15, controversial UK broadcast personality Tim Shaw will lock himself in a steel box that’s 3 feet high, 4.5 feet wide and 8 feet long. He will have no clue as to where the box is located — only that it is somewhere significant to him. His only company
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Man to Be Locked in Box and Live Streamed to World
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