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Google Maps Steers Into Local Information With AI Chat

New Google Maps allows users to ask for detailed information on local spots, adds AI-summarised reviews, more detailed navigation

4 months ago

Google Maps Utilises AI For Immersive View Tool

The use of AI by Google Maps utilised for launch of Immersive View tool, so users can preview their travel…

1 year ago

Apple Maps Receives Big Update To Help Local Businesses

Notable update to Apple Maps allows for addition of detailed business listings, photos, buttons and promotions across Apple ecosystem

2 years ago

UK Set To Announce Funding For Independent Satellite System

The government has reportedly cleared the way for work to begin on a navigation system to rival the EU's Galileo

7 years ago

Support Grows For A GPS Backup System Amidst Hacking Danger

South Korea and the US have signalled their support for a land-based radio navigation system as incidents of GPS disruption…

8 years ago

Toyota Touts Toilet Tracking Tech For iOS And Android

The Restroom Finder app will help Japanese motorists find nearby necessary facilities

8 years ago

LinkedIn Gets A Facelift With New Desktop Design

LinkedIn promises improved user experience with biggest ever desktop redesign

8 years ago

Europe’s Galileo Sat Nav System Goes Live

Seventeen years in the planning, delayed and over budget, but 2016 witnesses the arrival of Europe's answer to the GPS…

8 years ago

10 Of The Best Map Apps

Here to get you from A to B is our guide to the world's best map apps

9 years ago

US Air Force Discovers Two-Year-Old GPS Glitch

The problem, which seems to involve the GPS satellites' ground-based indexing software, dates back to 2013

10 years ago

Nokia’s ‘Here’ Maps Arrive On Samsung Devices

The ‘old’ Nokia brings offline maps to Samsung’s phones, tablets and smartwatches

11 years ago

Microsoft Plans To Retire MapPoint Software By The End Of The Year

The venerable ancestor of Microsoft’s navigation apps will be finally laid to rest - and UK favourite AutoRoute goes too

11 years ago

Google’s Project Tango To Appear In Consumer Tech In 2015

LG will make the first consumer mobile device capable of modelling its environment in 3D

11 years ago

Google Is Buying Into Satellite Manufacturing To Improve Maps

The acquisition of Skybox Imaging for $500 million will allow the company to marry navigation and analytics

11 years ago

Google Maps Helps Clear Minefields In Kosovo

HALO Trust says advanced positioning and navigation technology is making demining efforts less dangerous

12 years ago

OFT Considering Probe Of Google Waze Acquisition

The competition watchdog opens a consultation which could lead to an official investigation

12 years ago

How To Make Money From Maps In A World Dominated By Google

Jon Maron from INRIX says you can still run a maps business, as long as you don’t focus on navigation

12 years ago

Google Confirms £831m Waze Navigation Purchase

Google has flexed its financial muscle and snapped up Waze, which had also been courted by Apple and Facebook

12 years ago

Google Said To Consider Waze Acquisition

First it was Apple, then Facebook, and now Google is reportedly interested in the Israeli start-up

12 years ago

Facebook To Buy Mapping Firm Waze For $1 Billion – Reports

Facebook is said to be buying navigation start-up Waze, previously courted by Apple

12 years ago

Smartphone Navigation Apps Slash Device Sales

Sales of dedicated navigation devices are being badly squeezed by the growing use of mobile navigation apps

12 years ago

Streetmap Sues Google For Stealing Its Customers

UK-based company claims Google used underhanded tactics to dominate the online map market

12 years ago

Apple Developing ‘Street View Alternative’

A patent hints at a street-level navigation interface controlled by movement of the device

12 years ago

Chinese GPS Alternative Opens To Consumers

BeiDou satellite navigation system will finally appear on smartphones

12 years ago

MWC 2013 Video: TomTom “Adds Value To Smartphones”

Pieter Gillegot-Vergauwen from TomTom talks about the future of navigation

12 years ago

US Senate Votes In Favour Of Location Privacy Bill

Senator Al Franken wants to put a stop to “stalker apps”

12 years ago

Google Adds Indoor Maps For Christmas Shopping

To aid the Black Friday and Christmas shopping spree, Google has released indoor maps of selected worldwide locations

12 years ago

Oracle To Use Nokia Maps, As Apple Maps Backlash Spreads

Oracle like Nokia Maps, and so do quite a few TechWeekEurope readers

12 years ago

If Not Apple Maps – Then What Do You Use?

Tell us how you get around: Apple Maps, Google, Nafteq, TomTom... or paper?

12 years ago

Skyhook Sues Google Maps Over Navigation Patents

Google Maps is using Wi-Fi positioning technology without a licence, says Skyhook

12 years ago