It has been a hard road for Apple with their iPhone 5 launch and their IOS upgrade. Mainly because they took of Google Maps and forced their own new mapping service on all iPhone users. For the first time ever, Apple has admitted that they were wrong. They went so far as to even suggest ...
Back in February, Bing Maps and Nokia Maps were unified in design. Now the lines between the two are getting blurred again as Bing Maps is now using Nokia’s Live Traffic and Geocoding. From Nokia: Traffic comes to Bing Thanks to Nokia’s Where Platform, Bing Maps can now offer the same traffic information that ...
Microsoft and Nokia announced today a new unified map design as part of their partnership. The first image is the before and the second one is the after… Bing: Common color palette for road map style We’ve updated our color palette to create a cleaner and consistent view of roads and landmarks resulting in a ...
With all the craziness surrounding CES last month, this story must of fallen through the cracks. Recently Microsoft was granted a patent that is designed to make its maps more pedestrian-friendly. The exact abstract for the filing is: “As a pedestrian travels, various difficulties can be encountered, such as traveling through an unsafe neighborhood or being in ...
We all knew that with the Microsoft/Nokia deal also came the fact that Microsoft will be using Nokia for its mapping services. However, we did not know that Nokia’s branding was going to be on Bing maps. More importantly it will be placed on competing devices as well like Blackberry which is set to begin using Bing ...
Microsoft has published a pretty cool new app to the marketplace. It is called MapStalt and with the app you can essentially add new places to a map if it is missing a business, details, etc. It is a pretty clever way to get users to do alot of the dirty work when it comes ...
We use our Windows Phone everyday for fun, work, getting connected to those that matter most to us. Occasionally I use Bing maps to locate areas around me like restaurants, shops, parks. One very lucky guy though used it for a reason that trumps all the different ways I have ever used my Windows Phone, he ...
The silver Navigator as just been updated and not only have they squashed a few bugs but they added local searches as one of their features. Not bad at all and should hold us until Mango (since turn by turn navigation will be added to the actual OS). Local Searches:Â (might not be available in ...
Well this just makes sense for Nokia… Nokia’s Ovi Store, Ovi Maps, and Ovi etc. will now just be called Nokia Services. Now that all those services will be on Windows Phone, it makes sense for Nokia to put their signiture on every product. Nokia WP7 devices cannot come any faster! In that same token ...
We wrote a few days ago how Microsoft actually took the stage at Blackberry World 2011 to talk about Bing services on new Blackberry devices. Also, the fact that Steve Ballmer even mentioned Windows Phone 7. Here is that keynote from Blackberry world 2011… Source: CrackBerry
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