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  • Google Maps for Android adds transit departure times, Latitude friend suggestions

    Google Maps for Android adds transit departure times, Latitude friend suggestions

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    One of Google's favorite pastimes is shoehorning bits of new functionality into Google Maps for Android, probably because... well, because it can -- updating a package on its own mobile platform is a heck of a lot easier than, say, getting Apple to add a feature to its Maps app. To that end, version 4.3 has just rolled out with three major additions: aggregated (and color-coded) business reviews broken down by topic, transit system departure times, and suggested friends for Latitude. We'll admit, we occasionally forget that Latitude exists, so this seems like a timely addition to get it back into the spotlight -- and if you live in New York, Chicago, or another city with a sprawling bus and subway system, we're sure you'll be amped about the schedules. Now if those times were actually correct, that'd be really mind-blowing.

    Google Maps for Android adds transit departure times, Latitude friend suggestions originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Google Maps with Layers is now available for BlackBerry (it’s must-have download)

    Google Maps with Layers is now available for BlackBerry (it’s must-have download)

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Google Maps is the best BlackBerry mapping solution I’ve found and it just got a whole lot cooler. The Layers function will overlay different information sets on the the current map few. For instance, you can overlay a location-aware Wikipedia screen. Or Latitude. Or even make your own favorite locations and travel itinerary in a [...]

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  • Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Posted on October 21, 2009 | No Comments

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    Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    Android, Android everywhere. Android, Android in my hair. In my Nook and in my car in my netbook and in my... wait, Afghanistan? It seems defense contractor Raytheon, creators of the famous "pain ray", have launched a device called RATS: the Raytheon Android Tactical System. It allows soldiers to mark other soldiers and even UAVs as "buddies," then track their position in real time on a map, even picking up streaming video coming from above -- sort of like Latitude but putting a whole new spin on stalking. No word on how soldiers like their new devices so far, but once a Twitter app is added we're sure they won't shut up about it.

    Raytheon deploying Android-powered RATS on battlefields in Afghanistan and Pakistan originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your location [Updated]

    Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your location [Updated]

    Posted on August 12, 2009 | No Comments
    This is going to end well, and no one will be upset about this. Also, everything I said in that last sentence is probably wrong. When Debian developer Joey Hess started tinkering with webOS, he noticed that it was sending something to Palm once a day. Surely, Palm wasn't sending anything too potentially incriminating without making it blatantly obvious to the user, right? Wrong. Update: Updated with Palm's statement on the matter

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  • Why Is Google Latitude A Web App And Not A Native App? Because Apple Said So.

    Why Is Google Latitude A Web App And Not A Native App? Because Apple Said So.

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    We briefly pointed this out in our longer post on Google Latitude launching on the iPhone, but it's worth pointing this out separately. In its post today, Google made an unusual admission about its service: It apparently built a native Latitude app for the iPhone, but Apple asked it to make it a web app, so Google did that instead. Here's their actual wording:
    We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles.

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  • Google Latitude Comes To The iPhone. No, It Doesn’t Run In The Background.

    Google Latitude Comes To The iPhone. No, It Doesn’t Run In The Background.

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Google has finally gotten around to launching its location-based network, Latitude on the iPhone. The service, which has been around for months on the web and Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices may finally be ready to take off now that it's on the hottest smartphone on the market. But there's a problem — and it's a big one. Latitude, like all other third-party iPhone apps, cannot run in the background on the device. While you might think this would be extremely obvious, there is a big difference between Latitude and many of the other apps built for the iPhone: Latitude is entirely browser-based. Yes, there is no native Latitude app, and there was some thought that since the mobile version of Safari on the iPhone can technically run in the background, that maybe it would allow apps like Latitude to also do the same. Sadly, that is not the case.

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  • Sansa Sits Satisfied At Second

    Sansa Sits Satisfied At Second

    Posted on June 4, 2009 | No Comments
    It's officially official: the iPod is the number one media player in the known universe. The number two media player is the entire Sansa line from flash maker SanDisk. Eli Harari, CEO of SanDisk, admits that he's content to sit at the number two spot. And why shouldn't he?

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