Earlier this week, Sina, a leading Chinese online media company, announced a strategic partnership with AutoNavi Holdings Limited, a provider of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in China, in an effort to enhance the social, location and mobile offerings of both the companies.
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The SmartGPS intelligently manages and updates location- relevant social media and navigation content through an onboard WiFi connection.
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TheMagic Remote has been redesigned to fine-tune content and menu navigation, making interaction as simple and intuitive as possible.
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Slingbox Companion further leverages the Slingbox to deliver a powerful 2nd screen application for the iPad that combines content discovery and navigation with rich media and social media features.
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The Magellan SmartGPS communicates with Magellan's custom-built Smart Ecosystem, a cloud platform for an extensive database of constantly-updating, location-relevant social media and navigation content that is automatically pushed to the SmartGPS display to create a uniquely-rich driving experience.
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LG's widely acclaimed motion and wheel controlled Magic Remote allows easier navigation of content on LG's user-friendly Home Dashboard.
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Furthermore, the application leverages the Windows Phone unique horizontal scroll option allowing for smooth navigation across content traditionally better viewed in landscape mode.
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Intuitive navigation and comfortable layout of content offer an excellent reading experience no matter where you are.
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Other essential hardware integrated in the SmartGPS includes 4GB memory to support the applications, detailed navigation maps and additional cloud content.
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There are also design and navigation challenges in making all the content discoverable.
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The goal of these people lists and pages is simple: to provide quick access to the information users want, then to provide easy navigation to all sorts of related content.
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Second, GPS and turn-by-turn direction programs both benefit from the ability to access GPS content while another app is running such as a navigation program.
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The buttons, or links, can play video within the app, provide a path to a rich stream of underlying content on Forbes.com, or simply act as navigation.
With this partnership, Telmap, an Intel company, will utilize TomTom content to enhance its products and services, including mobile navigation apps distributed via application stores and mobile operators worldwide.
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In this case, navigation and serving up location based services centered around content which can be delivered to you based on where are in the museum.
The databases are getting very good, even for formerly remote parts of the globe. iGO Navigation, for example, offers maps and other content extras for more than 80 countries from all continents.
Maps and location content come preloaded on HTC Locations while turn-by-turn navigation can be purchased and downloaded through HTC Locations or HTC Sync.
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But Ezlogin's navigation is counter-intuitive and the huge amount of dynamically generated content each page attempts to call slows the service down considerably.
Despite seeing a home page change that moves the Flickr link to the far left navigation panel, there is a definite focus on consumer apps and content, where Flickr has a large following.
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The requirement for content to go full screen means we need new interactions for mobile that allow for effortless navigation between different fine-grained views from publishers, like Forbes, topics, like newspapers, and special views, like the newsfeed mentioned above.
The Lumia 820 offers the same exclusive content as the Lumia 920, including Nokia Drive, a turn-by-turn voice navigation solution, Nokia Music, a free music streaming service and Nokia City Lens, an augmented reality application that uses the phone's camera viewfinder to provide information about points of interests in the surrounding area.
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Apps provide fuller, richer experiences that provide more relevant content than a typical Web page, which is not optimized for mobile consumption and often needs further navigation to provide the right information to the user.
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Some of the streamlining will involve removing content for the entry-level model, the magazine reported, including stripping features out of the current navigation system and using less expensive headlamps than the LED lights that now are standard on the car.
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