App Review: AT&T Navigator for iPhone
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AT&T Navigator [Free with subscription - iTunes link] is the AT&T branded version of Telenav, GPS Turn-By-Turn software provided by AT&T. It is free to download, but requires a $10 monthly subscription paid through your [...]
Sprint’s Dan Hesse says Android coming to Sprint this year, is glad to have waited
While speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm: Tech event in Pasadena on Friday, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse apparently got all kinds of verbal when it came to Android and his carrier. The honcho (and TV commercial star) remarked at the industry conference that he was “Glad we waited on Android,” adding “The reviews say now it’s ready [...]
AdWords Gets More Local
Google has made AdWords a little bit more local for businesses by allowing them to run location extensions on ads. According to Google, location extensions allow you to “extend” your AdWords campaigns by attaching your business address to your ads.
Once you link you AdWords campaign to your Google business center account, Google will dynamically [...]
Google Finally Provides Latitude to iPhone Users — Yeah, it’s a WebApp
Google Latitude — the service that either allows you to keep track of your friends or be stalked by stalking stalker types, depending on your point of view — is finally available for the iPhone and iPod touch. No, it’s not built into Google Maps as part of iPhone 3.1 with push update capability. No, [...]
Google Latitude Comes to the iPhone [Google Maps]
The good news: Google Latitude—the Maps feature that finds your nearby friends on a map—is now available on the iPhone. The bad news: It’s only available as a web application, so it doesn’t currently work with the Google Maps app.
To try it out, just point your iPhone’s browser to http://google.com/latitude and allow Safari to use [...]
Google Maps Adds Multiple Search Function [Google Maps]
Google Maps has a lot going for it, but there’s always room for improvement. Which is why today the search giant added the ability to simultaneously search for and display destination points alongside its directions.
The new feature means users can now search for restaurants, bars, gas stations, and other destination points along their journey. To [...]
Plot Multiple Searches On Google Maps
Google Maps is an incredibly useful tool for searching for pretty much anything in a specific geographic area, but I used to find it annoying that I would have to conduct multiple, separate searches in Google Maps for various items along a route or point of interest. Now Google has added a feature that lets [...]
Google Earth Adds the Moon to Celebrate the Lunar Landing [Google Earth]
Windows/Mac/Linux: Google’s celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing today with the addition of the Moon to their popular 3D map tool, Google Earth.
Stargazers have been enjoying the sky in Google Earth for a couple of years now, but the addition of the Moon is a great way to appreciate the [...]
The Web Is Shooting For The Moon With Apollo 11 Tributes
Just in case you haven’t read anything on the web yet today, it is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 spacecraft landing on the Moon. Neil Armstrong’s “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” seems to reverberate as much today as it did back in 1969. And there are no shortage [...]
When Google Maps Meets SimCity [Google]
While Google Maps is pretty useful at the moment – especially Street View – we can’t help but look at this Chinese map of Hong Kong and wish that, instead of “Street View”, we could instead have “SimCity View”.
This map is real (though not provided by Google), and accurate, and can be used to plot [...]
