"Apple Maps is the worst-received new product to come out of Cupertino since the 1993 launch of the Newton...the child of a nasty divorce between two of the world's most powerful companies." " -- Forbes magazine Those two companies are ...
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Apple rarely admits anything is amiss, but in an email to an Australian iPhone 5 user, the company has apparently conceded that the iOS Maps app needs improvement. The Apple Maps application replaces Google Maps on the iPhone, but it is ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone 5, iOS Maps app, iPhone Software
Google's new €75m Dublin datacentre facility, which houses computers that provide critical cloud-based services such as the Google search engine, Gmail and Google Maps, is now operational. The datacentre, at Profile Park in ...
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Apple has confirmed that the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system will not include an app for accessing Google's YouTube video service by default. The move represents another step away from Google, after Apple previously ...
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Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
MINI is showcasing its flair for design with two impressive exhibits at this year's Salone del Mobile.As last year,MINI is using installations at Milan's Universit degli Studi and the Triennale design Museum to highlight the ...
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Today,the iconic Golden Gate Bridge is celebrating its 75th anniversary.To help commemorate the 75th of one of the modern Wonders of the World,ad agency Goodby Silverstein&Partners(GSP)has created an arresting print ad campaign in ...
Google's mobile maps product saw its market share in China decline by close to 50% in the third quarter due to Apple switching to its own maps product for its iOS 6 upgrade, according to a Beijing-based research firm. At the end of the ...
Tags: Google, China, mobile maps, market share, iOS 6
Apple's stumble with its new mapping app is a debacle right up there with 2010's "Antennagate," analysts said today. "This ranks with 'Antennagate,'" said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, of the 2010 ...
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From Google Maps, the U.S. National Security Agency's parking lot has a larger footprint than the building itself. And for the high secrecy surrounding what goes on inside, there is plenty of information flowing just outside. In a ...
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iPhone users frustrated with the inaccuracies in Apple's Maps app might get another choice for finding where they want to go from rival Google. In the next two weeks, Google's Street View is expected to be available on the iPhone's main ...
Consumers ranked Google Maps better than Apple's new homegrown mapping technology by more than 2 to 1 on Twitter, a social media analytics company said today. iOS 6 users can sidestep the change to Apple Maps by calling up Google's ...
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Google announced on Thursday what the company terms the "biggest ever update" to its popular and controversial Street View map imagery Web-based service. Google has doubled the number of Street View special collections and has updated ...
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Google maps has received positive reception after being returned to the iPhone. The Google maps app returned to the iPhone after Apple replaced it with its own on iOS 6 in September. The Apple map, however, received constant criticism ...
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Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties met each other in the regional court of Munich on Thursday, where ...
Tags: Microsoft, Google, Motorola, Android Phones, Mapping Patent