The GPS industry has already had a handful in recent months with Google’s completely free and generally completely awesome mobile navigation/turn-by-turn mobile app that debuted on the Android platform. But the Goog’s has plenty more to dish out as they are planning on releasing Google Navigation for iPhone “and plenty of other mobile platforms“, they announced today at a London Tech conference. Yowsa! Can we say woot (or hellz ya if that’s...

Getting bored with modern mapping and navigation technology or do you just want something cool to look at? Traversing the planet via direction from a normal map is what it is. But what if you had to stare at something a bit more old school. What if Google Maps was around in 1982? What would it look like? A quick stop by 8bitnyc.com will help you with that one. The pixelated image above showcases 8bitnyc in all it’s classic gloy, compliments of the synapses of...

EU residents may want to write/call/email/text their local governments and let them know any bill or law that drops data retention limits from 12 months to 6 is a bad idea. Especially so because if it does pass, Google Street View will be no more. They’re stating that if data retention limits are lowered for the original unblurred images from twelve to six months, the accuracy, integrity, and overall usefulness will be dimished. After those 6-months, if Google...

In the current economy, acquiring or even maintaining a job is pretty hard stuff. If you are lucky enough to keep a job, work is often sporadic and pay is stagnant or reduced. “Job security” is highly sought after. If job security is really what you’re after, Google is “the” place to be — specifically the Street View team. A new EU ruling documented in Article 29 states that the current 12-month time span is a “too...

*Time to get the salt shakers out ladies and gents. Have a certain “thing” for Ovi Maps but absolutely despise the overpriced (or rather average) nature of their higher end smartphone lineup? There may just be hope for you yet if Greig Williams, Nokia’s General Manager for South East Europe has his way. In response to a question lobbed by german site “Die Presse” as to whether Ovi Maps would expand to other platforms or not, Mr. Williams...