It turns out that building an excellent mobile mapping service is a complex process.
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Skobbler has had some success in the mobile mapping market, thanks in part to iOS's historical first-party weakness in the area.
Bu now, in terms of mobile mapping, local businesses have to worry about both how they are represented on two platforms instead of just Google.
'Hey, what would be the next-generation mobile mapping experience?
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By the 2000s, a host of sensors -- from GPS, which enables mobile mapping, to accelerometers, which helps the phone know if it's being tilted -- were being squeezed into the gadgets.
Denard's distinctive vehicle is a mobile mapping van owned by Tele Atlas, the Dutch firm that, along with Navteq and Google, has spent the better part of a decade building minutely detailed geographic databases used by navigation devices and Web sites.
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.
Given recent innovations in Internet, mobile and mapping technologies, the pharmaceutical industry has a unique opportunity to leverage its resources to increase the transparency of drug procurement and distribution in the developing world through user generated reporting and content.
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But mapping mobile phone users' general movements could help retailers make strategic decisions on store location and opening times, the company believes, and help town councils plan car parking facilities and manage public events.
Nokia has bought online-mapping and mobile-networking businesses in recent years to reinforce its offerings.
By crushing Nokia, Apple and Google took 5% out of the Finnish economy, wiped out the post-Psion, British OS Symbian, which had already found its way into over 350 million smartphones, and relegated Nokia to the status of struggling niche player, dependent on another US company, Microsoft, just at the point where it was going to write a new chapter in mobile, augmented reality and mapping.
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Apple launched its own mapping service on its mobile devices last September.
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Participating in the original conversation were a program that uses public health strategies to reduce urban violence ( Cure Violence), a group of young people creating health care tools for mobile devices ( Medic Mobile), and organizations using crisis mapping and SMS messaging to promote peace and facilitate humanitarian relief ( Ushahidi and Sisi ni Amani).
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He said he had already detected flaws with mapping features in the iOS 6 mobile operating system that comes with the phone.
With HTC Locations, a new differentiated online mapping experience, people have instant, on-demand mapping without download delays or incurring mobile roaming charges.
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For Facebook, Waze represents an opportunity to expand its mobile expertise and acquire a valuable asset in the mapping space.
Robert and I contend there are five rapidly converging forces: social media, mobile devices, sensor networks, Big Media and mapping that are forming a new contextual era.
Soon mobile technology could play a large role in detecting, mapping and responding to epidemics.
Some mapping companies weren't interested in releasing mobile apps until they saw the iPad.
The new maps, however, were at the heart of a customer backlash that began Wednesday after Apple released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 6, which contained the new mapping software.
So I fire up the MyFord Mobile app on my iPhone and punch in my destination in the mapping feature.
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Mobile users can click the button from their phone and navigation will start from their mobile browser, without the need for a separate GPS navigation or mapping app.
There, he ran the mobile apps lab before taking the role of director of Google Maps for mobile, where he oversees the Android and iOS versions of the iconic mapping app.
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Most mobile robots do this using a technique called SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping), whereby they build up a map of their unknown environment, using various sensors, whilst keeping track of their current position at the same time.
The application, U.S. Fuel Price Mapping, provides drivers directions to gas stations with the lowest prices in the surrounding area from a mobile device.
When the iPhone 5 and the latest mobile operating system were launched in September, they came without Google Maps, as Apple set about launching its own mapping ecosystem.
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