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After having prohibited all that could in any way being considered as software with some sexual connotation, Apple is now attacking with a new segment. They withdrew, without warning, all the software which used an undocumented API iniPhone SDK that made it possible to locate the Wi-Fi networks. Among this software one finds some that seek [...]

Personal navigation company TomTom this week reported a profit in its fourth fiscal quarter of 2009, thanks in part to more than 100,000 sales of its popular GPS navigation application for the iPhone.

For a long time the connector dock of the iPhone and iPod touch was only useful for recharging, synchronization and to connect loudspeakers to it. For some time Apple has progressively opened this dock. One knows of the additional GPS installed in the Tomtom support and now there are some things useful to everyone.  An SD connector will soon [...]

Apple this week notified iPhone developers that they cannot use the device’s GPS data to serve location-aware advertisements to users of App Store software.

In recent months, portable auto GPS navigation systems have been challenged in their market by smartphone applications that mirror much of the functionality of the standalone units. Now an attack is being launched from another vector, thanks to a new iPod gadget announced by a major player in the take-it-with-you auto nav arena. The gadget, [...]

&campIn addition to its Mac and iPod price drops, Apple authorized reseller Amazon.com is holding Black Friday deals that offer more 50% off most GPS units, 40% off Canon printers and certain digital cameras, 50 and 60% off Flash memory cards, and 20 to 48% off some Blu-ray players.

In conjunction with its newly updated App Store software, TomTom announced it will release a car kit that will bring GPS functionality specifically to the iPod touch.

Last week, the system of validation by the AppStore again was in the press after they rejected a software called  Bobble-Rep. The purpose of this software is to indicate to the American citizens the name of their representative at the Congress and the means of contacting him or her, and it functions using the GPS localization.  In order [...]

The forthcoming TomTom Car Kit navigation dock will not enable GPS functionality for the corresponding App Store software on the iPod touch and first-generation iPhone.

Google today announced a free, turn-by-turn GPS navigation application for the new Android 2.0 smart phone platform. This new feature comes with everything you’d expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn v…

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