Editor's Note: This was originally published by our partners at Kill Screen as part of Kill Screen's Year In Ideas series. Open a map in one of this year’s big video games and you’ll see mostly blank space. Sometimes it’s pitch dark outside the bubble of detail around your landing in...
iPhone and Mac users, brace yourself for change: Google’s tenure as the Safari default search engine for Apple’s phones, tablets and computers will expire next year, sources tell The Information. If true, the sudden opening could set off a mad scramble to lay claim to all of your Web searches.The...
iPhone 6, AppleWhen the iPhone 6 debuts Tuesday, it will join a crowded field of brand new mobile devices. But Apple has more than new hardware up its sleeve.The New York Times, Recode, the Wall Street Journal and other outlets have published numerous—and occasionally contradictory—reports predicting giant new iPhones, Apple smartwatches,...
HERE have announced their mapping solution called HERE for Gear for Tizen based smartphones and wearables from Samsung. Users will be able to use the maps offline and online (as current Nokia phones can). On the recently announced Samsung Gear S you will be able to tap on the...
Google wants to help you make decisions using the tool you already use to get directions. On Thursday, the company launched an Explore feature for Google Maps that lets people discover places like restaurants and local hot spots with a tap of an icon located in the far right corner...
Google is about ready to set its yearly agenda. Its I/O conference, which starts Wednesday, is Google's main opportunity to showcase what it's been working on across its sprawling techno-empire.We don't know if Google will continue to throw everything but the kitchen sink into its keynote address like it did...
Dennis Crowley's vision for Foursquare extends way beyond the check-in.The cofounder and CEO of Foursquare envisions a future where our mobile devices learn our behavior and provide suggestions for events, or what to eat for dinner based on a taste profile the company has developed by observing our behavior over...
When you think of “Apple” and “maps” in the same sentence, you usually think of that unmitigated disaster back in late 2012 when Apple replaced Google Maps with its own homegrown solution as the default navigation app in iOS 6. Boy, did that go wrong.In the immediate aftermath of the...
The biggest hurdle in the way of potential mainstream adoption of Google Glass isn’t that it makes humans look like a crazy future cyborg race. It’s that Glass, try as it might, can’t do squat on an iPhone.Earlier this year, I made the decision to switch back to the iPhone...
Apple Maps is on a tear, taking market share from Google Maps according to new comScore data. Apple fans will cheer, but will U.S. and European antitrust authorities? Given the similarities to Microsoft's illegal tying of Internet Explorer into Windows back in the late 1990s, Apple may be setting itself...
Newer iOS users may not realize it, but video recording, multitasking, copy/paste and customizable notifications, among others, were initially only available to people who jailbroke their iOS devices to add unsanctioned features. Then little by little, Apple integrated those functions into its mobile platform. Now, with iOS 7, the company...
Like many others I depend onGoogle Maps for my travels. I also like to go places where even Google Maps are on unsteady ground. In fact some friends who have seen maps of my hikes have asked how I learned to walk on water.You Don't Have To Go That FarYou...
A few years ago, Google's cloud services focused on simply storing and managing objects: email, documents, music, and movies. The 2013 version of Google is now using the cloud to connect and build relationships between them, responding to and anticipating the desires of its users.Google used its I/O keynote to...
Google Maps is about to get a lot smarter. The company unveiled the next iteration of its beloved geographic exploration apps at Google I/O this afternoon, sporting a visual overhaul and lots of new features. In addition to a redesigned, vector-based browser UI built in open Web standards, the new Google...
On Tuesday, OpenStreetMap significantly lowered the barrier to creating fully share-able map data. With the launch of a new editor for the open source mapping platform, its freely available mapping data will be improved upon even faster, leading to more accurate and detailed mapping information in the many apps and services...
Interacting with Big Data is daunting enough that, for most people, a search engine query is about as far as one is willing to go. But for those willing to get their hands dirty, Microsoft is quietly working towards fully integrating public data sources into Excel, eventually baking it into...
Apple is working on a smart watch. Any lingering doubts about that notion took a further hit yesterday when a patent filing for such a device surfaced, adding more fuel to an already frenzied fire of speculation. According to the filing, Apple has conceived a watch-like device with a flexible, touchscreen...
With the rise of smartphones, millions of people have tossed away their paper maps, instead relying on GPS and mapping apps on our phones to find a restaurant or plan a road trip. But is that really a good thing?Surprisingly enough, there’s a lot of academic research into the digital...
Last week, Microsoft shipped five Bing apps for its new Office suite, offering everything from maps integration to image search. That's great, as far as it goes. But the bigger issue is the lack of apps for Office 2013, period.The question that Microsoft's latest version of Office seeks to answer...
Google's Jeff Huber announced Monday that the new Google Maps for iPhone was downloaded more than 10 million times in the two days after its release. It has already racked up more than 20,000 ratings averaging 4.5 out of 5. That looks like a collective sigh of relief from iOS...
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