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Navigon GPS duo arrive in time for Christmas
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2009-11-05 23:59:05
The Christmas decorations are up in the shopping centres, and Navigon has launched a pair of new GPS units. (What I'd like, Santa, if you could manage it...)


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Aussie mapping technology set to take on Google
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2009-11-04 04:25:33
Perth based Ipernica (ASX: IPR) is poised to launch a new media company based around high resolution digitised terrain maps, that it says will compete with Google Maps and with Microsoft Bing.


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Google boosting quality of Street View images [update]
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-11-03 00:24:37
Google's Street View is getting a makeover, with new, higher-quality images being collected in major Australian cities.


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Google boosting quality of Street View images
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-11-01 16:08:35
Google's Street View is getting a makeover, with new, higher-quality images being collected in major Australian cities.


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Whereis provides Real View of major junctions
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2009-10-28 20:42:01
Whereis maps for GPS navigation units now include photorealistic renderings of major junctions to make life easier for drivers.


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Kensington's iPhone car cradle
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Products

2009-10-20 19:30:25
With in-car phone use becoming increasingly regulated, the arrival of Kensington's iPhone car mount is timely.


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Australian state lifts ban on driving with phone GPS
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-10-19 01:55:33
Using the navigation and music functions of a mobile phone will not - after all - be made illegal in the Australian state of Victoria. Is this a victory for common sense?


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Google Street View goes off-street with pedal power
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-10-18 19:16:38
Google Street View is already well known for its panoramic images of streets stitched together from photos taken from moving cars. The company has begun adding off-street images taken from a specially equipped tricycle.


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Has Apple bought a mapping service?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2009-10-01 19:07:38
It seems that about three months ago, Apple purchased Placebase - a mapping company with some interesting technology. Now there's speculation about what Apple will do with its acquisition.


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Whereis Navigator leads the way to cheap petrol, avoiding traffic jams
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-08-23 21:06:51
Telstra's Whereis Navigator now offers spoken turn-by-turn directions on GPS-enabled phones. Also new are fuel price information and additional traffic alerts.


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Australians letting their iPhone finger do the walking with Yellow Pages app
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-08-20 23:57:10
The Yellow Pages app is proving a favourite among Australian iPhone owners.


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SUNA alert to Canberra traffic
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Services

2009-08-19 21:55:02
The SUNA Traffic Channel has reached Canberra. The service delivers live traffic information to GPS navigation systems.


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TomTom iPhone GPS navigation app arrives in Australia
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-08-16 20:07:45
TomTom's turn-by-turn car navigation application for the iPhone was released for Australia over the weekend.


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Vodafone to use Tele Atlas digital maps and location content
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: ExchangeDaily

2009-07-20 03:56:50
Vodafone group has struck a deal with Tom Tom subsidiary Tele Atlas to use its digital maps and location-based content the provision of location-based services  and navigation offerings in its networks worldwide.


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How Yahoo! helped create Google Maps
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-07-01 23:13:14
Lars Rasmussen, software engineering manager at Google and one of the original creators of Google Maps, and more recently Google Wave, has given a blow-by-blow account of how a small Sydney software start-up came to provide the technology underpinning Google Maps.


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Landmarks improve Whereis.com directions
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-07-01 00:32:20
Whereis.com now incorporates landmarks in its street directions. The system incorporates research carried out in conjunction with the University of Melbourne.


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Sygic's iPhone GPS magic attracts pricing outrage tragics!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2009-06-24 01:14:24
Sygic’s turn-by-turn “Mobile Maps” GPS iPhone app is the first publicly available app of its kind for the iPhone 3G and 3G S, has launched in Australia through Sensis and Telstra, but what do users think, and is criticism of the $79 price justified?


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iPhone app warns of school zones, traffic cameras
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-06-04 02:12:39
iTraffic - a new iPhone app is designed to warn drivers as they approach school zones and speed cameras. But initial user reaction is mixed.


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Android phone number 2 coming to 3
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-05-21 02:31:25
Optus may have scored the first Android-powered mobile phone in Australia (the HTC Dream) and the much-vaunted Kogan Agora may have faded into oblivion, but 3 says it'll have the second in about a month's time.


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SUNA storms into Gold Coast
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2009-05-21 01:08:01
The SUNA traffic update service went live on the Gold Coast today, coinciding with severe weather and flooding.


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