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  • One Week Later, Apple Updates HopStop With Real-Time Delay Reporting

    July 29th at 4:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinions

    One of the many big, tattery holes in Apple’s Maps app is the lack of transit data. At launch, Apple wisely allowed third-party transit apps to plug into Maps to supplement their own subway and bus directions — perhaps the first bonafide example of Apple allowing iOS users to set their default app for anything — but it was obviously just a stopgap,/a>, because just last week, Apple scooped up Hopstop, one of the biggest transit apps around....

  • 8 Apps You Don't Want To Miss

    July 28th at 1:06am / Mashable / 0 opinions

    It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week, we found an app that keeps track of how you spend your money, and another that helps you search your phone for content according to person, time or type of file.

  • Catching Up With Android, Google Maps 2.0 For iOS Offers iPad Support, Indoor Directions

    July 17th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Poor Apple Maps. While we see very minor improvement from Apple’s year-old Maps application, Google continues to improve its world-class offering pretty rapidly. Why, today, in fact, Google just launched an update to the Google Maps for iOS app, adding support for the iPad, indoor maps, and a slew of other features that were released with the recent Android Google Maps update.

  • Google Maps update for iOS rolls out with iPad support, enhanced navigation and indoor mapping

    July 17th at 12:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    Google has started gradually rolling out an updated version of Google Maps on iOS, after the new Google Maps for Android tablets and smartphones landed earlier this month....

  • Google Maps for iOS adds iPad support, live traffic updates and indoor navigation

    July 17th at 8:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinions

    Google unveiled a significant update to Google Maps on Tuesday, finally bringing support for Apple's iPad, while adding enhanced features like indoor walking directions and "Explore," a new interface for browsing shopping, dining and lodging destinations.

  • Google Maps Now Works with the iPad and Has Better Navigation

    July 17th at 7:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    All you iPad users can now banish Apple Maps into that folder you never open because Google Maps 2.0 has been released and adds support for the iPad and iPad Mini. That means BIG MAPS HELL YEAH....

  • Google Maps arrives on iPad with 2.0 update

    July 17th at 7:09am / The Verge / 0 opinions

    A big update to Google Maps for iOS has just arrived, for the first time adding a custom iPad interface. Like the major Android update last week, the revamp improves navigation with live traffic updates and incident reports, along with indoor maps for finding your way around shopping malls and the like....

  • Crowsflight for iOS: Enjoy Wandering Without Ever Getting Lost

    July 17th at 2:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    S Asking for directions is a sign of weakness. Everyone knows that. Still, that's not necessarily to say that you should solely rely on the sun and your wildly unfounded gut instincts. Crowsflight for iOS gives you a middle ground....

  • 8 Apps and Gadgets to Keep Track of Your Child

    July 15th at 3:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    Parenting is tough to begin with, but add a smartphone-using, texting, emailing and Internet-surfing teen on top of that, and there's a whole new set of digital rules that apply. Keeping tabs on your kids at home can be done through communication, Internet filters and other PC-based tools (hopefully), but it becomes a little more difficult when they venture outside. SEE ALSO: 10 Mom Blogs Full of Inspiring Advice Tracking your kids with GPS is definitely a debatable topic.

  • Skobbler brings travel guides to its OpenStreetMaps-powered navigation app for iOS

    July 11th at 2:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    A little over two months after Skobbler debuted ForeverMap 2 for iOS, an OpenStreetMaps-powered mapping tool with offline route-planning, the German startup has announced that it’s now introducing a travel guide into its navigation app....

  • OSM App Maker Skobbler Beefs Up Its Offline iOS Maps Play — And In The Wake Of Waze’s Big Exit, Draws Acquisition Interest

    July 11th at 1:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Berlin-based map app maker Skobbler, which has its own map engine and combines it with OpenStreetMap data to power a range of navigation apps, has updated its iOS global maps app, ForeverMap 2, to add a travel guide with popular location info to further expand the offering. At the same time TechCrunch has learned the startup is being eyed up by major tech companies as an acquisition target.

  • App Store at 5: A Good Ride That Could Go on Forever

    July 10th at 6:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    Apple's App Store remade the world of software and mobile and, as I see it, all for the better.

  • The Best iPhone Apps of the Week: You Know, For Kids

    July 5th at 10:54pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    One of the very great pleasures of being an (imbecilic) adult is going to department stores to buy something painfully mundane and taking a detour through the toy department. YOU CAN BUY ALL OF THIS STUFF. It's there, for you, to buy, and you don't have to ask anyone's permission. I've, uh, been at Target a lot the past few weeks, and now there are way too many Nerf guns in my apartment. iPhone apps!...

  • What3words: Find and share very precise locations via Google Maps with just 3 words

    July 2nd at 8:48am / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    If you’re reading this, chances are you’re well acquainted with Google Maps....

  • Google Earth gets Street View and new UI in update

    June 27th at 1:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinions

    Google rolled out a substantial update to its Google Earth iOS app on Wednesday, bringing a few important changes to the title, the biggest being built-in Street View capabilities.

  • Crowd-sourced navigation service Moovit blasts past 1m user mark

    June 5th at 9:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    Moovit, an app for finding your way home on public transport in the least busy (and therefore least painful) way possible, now has more than one million users around the world....

  • London’s top 10 most-loved mobile apps

    June 2nd at 4:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    They’re in your pocket, your purse or at the bottom of your laptop bag whenever you need them. They’re built in East London, near trendy Shoreditch or the lovable eyesore known as Silicon Roundabout. (Not to be an eyesore for much longer it seems!) They connect you to the world, empower your inner photographer and help you get home at night after you’ve had a few....

  • Waze iOS app integrates Facebook events to live maps in update

    May 31st at 1:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinions

    Crowd-sourced mapping service and iOS app Waze on Thursday pushed out an update that brings in-app integration with Facebook events, as well as other improvements like user interface tweaks and realtime "beeping."

  • Bus and train schedule app Transit is now free, saves commuters stranded by Apple Maps

    May 28th at 9:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinions

    Public transit directions app Transit is getting a big upgrade for commuters: it's now completely free to use. The app is trying to beat Google Maps at being the go-to tool for the everyday commuter by providing quick access to nearby transit schedules, rather than asking users to search for where they need to go. Transit also supports offline access, so subway riders won't be left with an empty map if they can't get data service underground....

  • Take a 3D Tour of Mount Everest With This App

    May 27th at 8:05am / Mashable / 0 opinions

    A new app lets users explore Mount Everest in lifelike detail without ever having to leave the couch. Called Mount Everest 3D, the iOS app shows the world's highest mountain from "any perspective" in the form of a 3D map, according to its App Store description. = Created by German company 3D RealityMaps, the map is based on high-resolution images from WorldView satellites, and details common routes, base camps and weather stations.

  • 10 Apps for Enjoying the Great Outdoors

    May 25th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    When you think about enjoying the great outdoors, embracing the natural world and soaking up all of the sun's vitamin D, technology doesn't really enter the picture, does it? But using tech and being outside don't have to be mutually exclusive. There are plenty of mobile apps to help you connect with nature, rather than keeping you glued to your virtual life.

  • Recargo And Xatori Merge To Make PlugShare The Essential App For Electric Car Drivers

    May 22nd at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    People are afraid that if they drive an electric vehicle, they’ll run out of juice somewhere. So to convince more people to buy electric cars and dominate the charging station locator market, Xatori and Recargo are merging. The combined charge finder developers will go by the name Recargo to promote their station map and trip planner app PlugShare. Xatori and its co-founders Forrest North…

  • The 25 Best Free iPad Apps

    May 22nd at 3:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    There are more than 300,000 iPad apps currently available in Apple's App Store -- with all those options, how do you find what you're looking for without wasting your hard-earned cash? SEE ALSO: The 15 Best Free iPad Games To help you out, we've compiled a list of the 25 best free iPad apps that you can download at no cost, right now.

  • Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time

    May 20th at 6:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.

  • Skobbler Brings its GPS Navigation App to Android

    May 16th at 3:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    The day after Google previewed an all-new Google Maps for iOS and Android (as well as a desktop incarnation), Skobbler has finally brought its popular iOS GPS navigation app to Android....