Both systems utilize Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network1 service to provide an overlay of real-time traffic events and conditions on the navigation map and allow users to create routes (or re-route) to minimize traffic delays.
TomTom navigation, map and traffic technologies will be incorporated into the new app.
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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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S-class is an example, with an onboard navigation system to map your route, radar to watch the road ahead and automatic cruise control.
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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Once a navigation is under way, the map is topped by a large green bar showing the current step in the directions.
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Nevertheless, some iPad users are employing the tablet like a portable navigation device (PND) to map out routes while they are sailing, hiking and driving.
It took me less than an hour to download three or four applications, some cached filed, a map or two for offline navigation, and snap a few pictures.
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The entire playing experience is far more compact than a PC MOBA, which in turn allows the whole map to fit easily on the on-screen mini-map, making for simpler navigation.
From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
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The navigation system can display Google Earth imagery beneath the map overlay, which is sure to keep passengers entertained.
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Turn-by-turn navigation doesn't provide a night mode, customizable map layers or manually specified rerouting.
Meanwhile, Dutch satellite navigation company TomTom, which provided the data for the new map system, told CNN it is not responsible for the way the maps work.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
In Austria, Ars Electronica, a collaborative behind a digital arts festival, museum and lab, helped Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ) develop a car navigation system that shows the driver a video of the street rather than a map.
Like the PC industry before it, the navigation business has seen economic value shift to the software, in this case the incredibly hard-to-replicate map databases.
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