Our long national nightmare is over: Google Maps for iOS has been released in Apple's iTunes Store, bringing back Google's robust and much superior map data to iOS users.There are no download stats for Google Maps yet, but it has already been rated nearly 8,000 times since debuted on the iTunes Store...
Everyone knows the first version of Apple's iOS map application was a piece of work, but life-threatening?Lots of people are upset with Apple for replacing Google's all-but-bulletproof mapping app with its own, disastrous Maps application back in September. Locations are mislabeled, directions are absurd, towns are shown where no town...
Bloomberg broke the news Tuesday that Richard Williamson, who oversaw the Maps team at Apple, has been fired by Senior Vice President Eddy Cue. Cue took over this responsibility last month after Scott Forstall, who oversaw all of iOS, was fired.With the launch of iOS 6 this year, Apple replaced...
The Wall Street Journal reports from a source with "direct knowledge of the matter" that Google has distributed a test build of Google Maps for iOS. It has not yet been submitted to Apple's App Store.After Apple's iOS 6 upgrade kicked out Google Maps, users in some parts of the...
If you’re having trouble finding places with the new maps on your iPhone, you must not have heard of Localscope. I’ve been searching and browsing the world with this thing since long before iOS 6, so I didn’t miss a beat. And today’s update to version 3 doesn’t just add...
A new report that usage of Apple’s new iOS 6 Maps is plummeting has me pretty steamed. This claim - as is so often the case in the tech universe - is based on a meritless, PR-driven study. 5,000 users of an obscure app for highly technical people is a hopelessly...
While Apple is busy floundering on land, Google has moved on to begin mapping the seas. On Tuesday, Google published its first underwater Street View images, adding panoramic views of key sites under the ocean to Google Maps.The timing of Google’s announcement is amusing, as this week’s big gadget story...
Boy, am I glad I didn't upgrade my iPhone to iOS 6 last week. Apple's new mobile operating system became available just as I was boarding a plane from Philadelphia to San Francisco to attend a conference and explore the city. I figured it would be better to wait on...
By now, many people considering a new smartphone know that the new maps service in Apple's iPhone 5 - and iOS 6 - is more likely to get them lost than maps in competing phones. Rather than continue offering Google Maps, Apple opted for an inferior homegrown service, believing customers...
Most people wont' get their hands on an iPhone 5 until later this week, but the early reviews are in. Most critics are enamored with Apple's latest smartphone: It's faster, thinner, taller and, even though the camera isn't a huge upgrade, it's still an improvement. But one new feature isn't...
For Apple and Google, breaking up is hard to do. Today's release of Apple's iOS 6 sees the the addition of many new features, as well as the removal of some notable code that has been with iOS for a long time: Apple's YouTube app and the use of Google...
GPS navigation service TomTom added a new feature to its turn-by-turn directions app for iOS Tuesday. Now it pulls in location data from Foursquare to let you navigate to popular places. If you’re logged in, it can check you in automatically when you arrive.For people who enjoy logging their travels,...
On the last day of the Google I/O developers conference, we sat down with engineering director Peter Magnusson to digest the introduction of Compute Engine, which adds Google-scale processing power to the company's list of cloud offerings designed to take on Amazon Web Services. Here are the announcement's five key...
It’s no secret that Google's greatest asset is its data. But beyond its social and knowledge graph, what else is all of that information good for? Well, good, for one. Here's how a sample of nonprofit, grant-powered projects we saw at Google I/O last week are harvesting the company's resources...
Apple just unveiled a bunch of new iPhone and iPad features coming this fall in iOS 6, but no big surprises.The biggest new feature, as expected, is an entirely new Maps experience. Apple has taken over its maps back-end from Google, including a gorgeous 3D "flyover" mode, crowdsourced traffic information,...
Photo via t-gaap.com.Apple's big, annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off Monday in San Francisco. Expect a variety of announcements covering the Mac, iPhone and iPad. Here's what's actually worth paying attention to.1. iOS 6iOS is Apple's most important platform: The iPhone, iPad and iPod touch represent the majority of...
Today location check-in app Foursquare unveiled a new design for its iOS and Android mobile apps. It now focuses on recommending places for you to go, based on your current location. It's also more social. This is a sensible pivot, but Foursquare is not yet at the place it needs to...
The group of caretakers of Internet standards and practices has been on record supporting fundamental principles linked with net neutrality. But in Part 3 of ReadWriteWeb's interview with Sally Wentworth, the Internet Society's public policy spokesperson says that enabling a service provider to engineer a competitive advantage for itself may also...
This is a game called Cube that is based on Google Maps, and is essentially a browser-based version of Labyrinth that uses real world maps. You control it using your Mouse moving the blue ball to were you want to go. The main bit of interest is...
As developers bail out left and right, Google has launched a new developer portal for the Google Maps API. It's intended to "inspire the next wave of innovation on the Google Maps API, and to connect developers and decision makers with the tools and services that can make their products...
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