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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Wireless GPS modules are a dime a dozen these days, but what makes the so-called locoGPS Mobile Navigation Server so special is that it serves piping hot coordinates up via WiFI, not the usual Bluetooth, which is just fantastic considering that the iPhone's Bluetooth stack doesn't much like to talk to anything other than headsets.
Gaming ones use accelerometers and gyroscopes to track users' motions, while mobile-navigation apps rely on inbuilt GPS systems.
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.
The makers of navigation devices and mobile phones are eagerly looking to their databases for new ideas to keep people buying new hardware.
Launched first on iPhone in March, Scout for Apps is the first HTML5, browser-based, voice-guided, turn by turn, GPS navigation service for mobile phones.
Tap the menu subset for Mobile Applications, and the Navigation System touch screen will then list the current SYNC-enabled apps found on the SYNC-paired smartphone that are ready for launch by voice command.
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HAMBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NAVIGON AG, a leading provider of mobile phone on-board navigation, today announced the availability of the eighth update for its iPhone app, MobileNavigator, the most feature-rich navigation solution on the iOS platform.
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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.
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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Why does a low-priced gaming app like Angry Birds have richer graphics, a more intuitive interface, and more advanced touch-navigation features than the mobile version of a business solution that generates tens or even hundreds of millions in revenue?
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In an intensely mobile world, branders are in the navigation business more than ever before.
As processing power, graphics and touch-navigation continue to improve on mobile devices, many vendors are adding new functionality to their shrunken mobile solutions, rather than creating solutions designed from the ground-up for mobile devices.
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The mobile preview takes a more personalized approach to navigation, with a rating system and offers from merchants like Starbucks.
Simplified navigation to browse genre stations on mobile for the first time makes the more than 400 genres of music on Pandora more easily accessible.
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Facebook also redesigned its site and navigation to make it more consistent and mobile-centric.
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Google struck the first blow in Oct. 2009 with the release of free, turn-by-turn navigation software for phones that use its mobile platform, Android.
It comes pre-loaded with satellite navigation - apparently the next killer application for mobile - so there will be no excuses for getting lost on the way to the in-laws' Christmas party.
If website visitors click on the Scout Drive Button from their computer rather than their phone, Scout will offer the option of sending a link to launch navigation on their phone via a text message or mobile email.
Scout for Apps is also the only GPS navigation service that developers can embed within their own mobile applications, just like embedding video into a website, allowing them the ability to keep their users within their own branded app throughout the entire navigation session.
Asus is also trying to augment its mobile business, especially in the U.S., through navigation services and new management.
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It should take note that a few mobile-first sites have misfired by attempting to extend their tablet navigation and sensibility to desktop.
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This could include "navigation systems, smartphones, electronic tablets and pads, and other mobile communications devices".
In bold move to re-assert its position in the Web navigation business, Yahoo tonight is launching Yahoo Axis, a mobile browser and search tool that adds some new twists to a crowded space.
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To keep the party going, songs can be queued via the top navigation through search, browse or SmartGlass integration, which connects a tablet or mobile device to the Xbox 360 console.
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From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.
Mobile products using SiRFstarV and SiRFusion will be able to make a seamless transition between outdoor and indoor navigation as people make their way through countries, cities, neighbourhoods, parks, shopping malls, convention centres, airports, train stations or other large structures while continuing to utilise a variety of location-enabled services and applications.
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They include mobile phones, MP3 players, computer chips, hard drives, handheld computers, games consoles and satellite navigation equipment.
"Mobile users have sent us feedback that they have switched to our partner apps due to the addition of free navigation, " said Shannph Wong, chief architect at Telenav.
Unveiled at IFA in Berlin, the Russian Mobile Operating System or RoMOS reportedly mimics the look and feel of Android and works with Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System.
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