Apple has made another stealthy, small acquisition, buying Quebec-based mapping technology company Poly9.
As expected, Apple also is developing its own GPS-based mapping application to replace Google Maps in iOS 6.
Google just announced a cloud-based mapping service for business, and Microsoft may head there with a better-quality product.
Behind the scenes Nokia appears to be undertaking a global laser-based mapping exercise designed to give it superior mapping data.
To determine whether a deposit has enough of a mineral to merit mining, companies use air-based geological mapping and drill for core samples.
With generous support from the Government of Norway, a major initiative is being undertaken in the North West Frontier province, based on mapping out cultural resources, knowledge systems, from traditional arts and crafts to agricultural practices.
Joining Berlin soon is London where another company is re-creating the city not just based on reality, but mapping it by inch-for-inch.
Researchers at the Allen Institute For Brain Science have completed their four year task of mapping the brain based on all known parts of the genome.
Based on the results of our mapping, we can confirm that the contents of the meatballs follow the IKEA recipe and contain only beef and pork from animals raised in the US and Canada.
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In fact, anything that can use a mapping element and a time based event is a candidate.
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It foresaw the advantage of excellent mapping technology to sell location based advertising and other services beyong directions to the user.
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Future iDevice interfaces may also be leveraged for Apple to enhance its upcoming iOS mapping software with cloud-based crowd-sourced info for more reliable real-time traffic information.
Both installations were created by Klip Collective, a Philadelphia-based company that uses a patented video mapping process to design these types of visual effects.
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Along with ongoing search enhancements, we deployed important new mobile, mapping, and cloud-based services that enhance the relevance of Yandex for users and advertisers across our markets.
Mr Go reckons that urbanisation could be as low as 25%, based on data from the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, a global population map.
Insurance and reinsurance firm will have new tools for predictive modeling of events like tropical storms in January when Wall Street Network (WSN) launches a cloud-based solution it is developing with Esri, the mapping company.
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From mapping sites to social networks, web-based software evolves much faster than desktop software, which often looks old-fashioned by comparison.
After acquiring Gate5 last year, Nokia decided that adding navigation capabilities was "a natural move, " and its forthcoming Smart2Go system will offer up free mapping and routing services and a fee-based turn-by-turn option if you've just got to have that robotic helper bossing you around (or can't take your eyes off the road).
Nokia bought Chicago based Navtec a number of years ago for its first class mapping and gps system.
But what Steve Jobs failed to mention that many location-based services used by apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp require a mapping service to show location.
For much of this year, the commission's reason for blocking the iPhone was that its built-in mapping capabilities violate a South Korean rule requiring the use of domestic technology for location-based services in cellphones.
However, the UK-based Austrian team will need to make adjustments after ruling body the FIA deemed Red Bull's engine mapping to change the aerodynamics of the cars and therefore be illegal.
It then combines this real-time information with ephemeris data, mapping, cellular base station and Wi-Fi access point database information, and other cloud-based aiding information using the SiRFusion platform.
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