In practical terms, this will mean that developers will need to develop China-specific location-based services, which routinely access map services sanctioned by the Chinese government.
Starting this month, Ovi Mail moved from its own platform and began migrating to Yahoo, the fruits of a " worldwide strategic alliance" between the two companies announced in May of last year in which Yahoo agreed to offer its Mail and Chat services to nine million registered Ovi users in exchange for access to Nokia's navigation and map services.
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We note that in 2009 Apple also acquired a small company called PlaceBase that offered map layering services.
As some helpful readers noted in my recent piece on Android, Apple may be trying to get away from Google with map and location services of its own.
The popular map and driving directions services of GYM have been a windfall for Navteq, which owns the longitude and latitude data, and deCarta, which crunches the data.
Cloud is moving technology design to a point in which business users can quickly, on demand, map interconnected but discrete services to business processes as they are needed, then being able to quickly disassemble and redeploy those services as business needs change.
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Mr Beck was notably ahead of the game in producing a version of his London map showing all underground and surface level train services as early as 1938.
So far, that app is making intelligent use of the shared functions of the social and search giants, and the value of a fast (and, in alien data environments, fairly cheap) map not at the mercy of spotty local internet services should not be underestimated.
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Their free product is reducing revenues for high tech map makers which reduces the availability of these products and services.
'Signing the deal with Samsung highlights TomTom's ability to deliver the map and enhanced content needed to enable the location based services for wireless users' said Charles Cautley, Managing Director TomTom Automotive and Licensing.
Mr. Holloway and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs introduced the new flood-zone map Friday as part of the city's Hurricane Sandy After Action report, an overview of the emergency response to one of the worst storms in New York City's history.
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Additionally, many emergency management agencies, such as fire departments and emergency medical services, use TRI to identify chemicals in use and map facility layouts for a more effective, quicker response to emergencies.
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Nokia plans to continue licensing the map data to all of Navteq's customers but wants control of the data to begin developing location services and targeted advertising.
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