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NewsApple acquires indoor-GPS company WiFiSLAM
Apple has acquired GPS company WiFiSLAM according to a Wall Street Journal report, which claims Apple paid approximately US$20 million to close the...
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NewsiOS 6.1.3 fixes lock screen bypass, improves maps in Japan
Apple today has released iOS 6.1.3, a minor update to the operating system that powers iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. Included in the update...
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News 1Apple Maps faces heat over flawed bushfires data
Apple has been blamed for ‘dangerous’ inaccuracies on the maps featured in the Victorian Country Fire Authority’s FireReady bushfire...
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NewsGoogle Maps hits the slopes at 38 ski resorts in US and Canada
Members of the Google Maps team must have gone skiing over the winter break because Google has added run and lift maps for 38 ski resorts across the...
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Blogs 1The best of both worlds
Two-and-a-half months; that’s all it took for Apple to fix the mapping ‘debacle’ in iOS. Strangely enough, it was Google which came to the rescue....
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NewsGoogle maps North Korea using crowd-sourced data
Google Maps has started to release more detailed maps of North Korea, just a week after Google chief executive Eric Schmidt made his visit to the...
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NewsApple’s Eddy Cue still testing Foursquare
Apple’s Eddy Cue still appears to be testing out Foursquare, and his activity on the location-based social recommendation app continues to spark...
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NewsIs Apple planning to buy TomTom to help fix iOS 6 Maps?
Apple could be planning to buy maps maker TomTom to help fix its mapping service. That’s according to Netherlands-based Rabobank analyst Hans...
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NewsGoogle: ‘Our iOS Maps app is better than Google Maps for Android’
Google has reportedly admitted that the Google Maps app for iOS, which launched in the App Store today, is better than Google Maps for its Android...
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Blogs 3Why Google Maps for iPhone is good for Apple
Despite its aesthetic achievements, Apple’s Maps app in iOS 6 left a lot of users unhappy. Turns out that the years Google spent building out its...
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News 2Victoria police say Apple has ‘half-fixed’ Maps Mildura blunder
Following a public warning issued by Victoria police, Apple has reportedly ‘half-fixed’ an error with its Maps iOS software, which has led to...
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NewsTim Cook: ‘TV an area of intense interest’
CEO Tim Cook has hinted that Apple is working on a venture into the TV industry, which speculation predicts will be an advanced set-top-box or an...
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NewsWe screwed up, says Tim Cook
Tim Cook, Apple CEO, admitted that the company “screwed up” on Maps. Cook was talking in an interview with Brian Williams, on NBC’s...
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NewsThe Onion takes humourous stab at Apple Maps
Apple has decided to improve the accuracy of its Maps software by re-arranging the physical features of the Earth. Or at least that’s what a...
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News 1Apple asks TomTom to help it fix its Maps
Apple is said to be asking TomTom for help as it tries to improve its Maps app. According to a Bloomberg report, Senior Vice President Eddy Cue is...
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NewsApple Maps chief Eddy Cue sacks team manager
Apple has allegedly sacked the manager responsible for the company’s Maps app launched with iOS 6 in September. A report from Bloomberg, citing...
