Apple ditched Skyhook and Google, rolled their own location database
TechCrunch went through the fine print and noticed that, with iOS 3.2 (iPhone 3.2 for iPad) Apple switched from using Skyhook and Google’s location database to using their own, home spun, solution.
When reached for comment, Skyhook wouldn’t specifically talk about their relationship with Apple, but they did say that “everyone who has [...]
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Apple acquires map API company Poly9
According to the Sun, Apple has purchased Quebec-based Poly9, a mapping API provider for Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, MSNBC, and NORAD.
Poly9’s website has been shuttered, their employees moved to Cupertino.
Last year, Apple bought PlaceBase, a company that specialized in API for layering data sets over maps.
Since there’s only a few companies that actually own the maps [...]
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iPhone at Work: Professional photographer
How does a photographer use his iPhone to get the job done and what iPhone apps help get him through his day? TiPb’s iPhone at work contest aims to bring you just such slices of the iPhone life. Here’s JustinHammondPhoto’s answer and as a small token of thanks we’re sending him a $20 iTunes gift [...]
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Hands On With Mapquest 4 Mobile on iPhone
So in the past couple weeks I may have developed a new phobia of getting lost which is why I’m reviewing another mapping app: Mapquest 4 Mobile for the iPhone. I just chalk it up to general paranoia on my part, that and maps are cool. And anything that keeps my directionally challenged girlfriend from [...]
Free Google Maps Navigation coming to iPhone… eventually
Hey, maybe free Google Maps Navigation for iPhone is what Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt were confabbing about over quinti-venti-lattes? Okay, maybe not but as part of the UK Google Maps Navigation roll out, they did once again say the envy-worthy, currently Android-only service would indeed be coming to the iPhone…
…they just still haven’t said [...]
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