Tag: gps
Keep Certain iOS Apps From Using Your Location
Some apps you want to use your location: Maybe you want a camera app to geotag your photos, for example. But others? Well, you might...
Find My iPhone App Helps Paramedics Find Injured Teen
Find my iPhone is no longer just for tracking down a phone thief or for finding your iPhone when its lost in your couch....
Apple hiring iOS location tech, go get ’em guys
Have some GPS skills and hoping to land a job at one of the biggest and best tech companies on the planet? Apple’s looking to...
Apple patent reveals a radically improved Maps on iPhone
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has some plans up its sleeve for the Maps app on the iPhone. According to a recently published US Patent,...
iPhone owner — turned vigilante — attacks wrong person after using Find my iPhone
We’ve all seen stories about people using Find my iPhone to track down lost or stolen devices. The free app is a great addition to...
Apple publishes Q&A on location data stored on iPhones
This morning, Apple published a detailed Q&A post about the location data that has been found on the company’s iPhone and iPad 3G devices. The...
iPhone: Creepier than that girl you dumped in middle school?
If you thought you were free in today’s day and age, you’re going to have to think again. Not only are websites tracking your movements...
Apple buys up Poly9. Are they thinking about a GPS application?
If tracking Santa Claus on Christmas Eve is your kind of thing, or if you’re the type of person who’d like to know when a...
Problem with multitasking, and a possible solution
After getting multitasking on my phone, one thing became pretty clear right off the bat. It’s great that I can now listen to pandora, surf...
TomTom USA
The folks at TomTom are at it again. It seems that since they released their official app back around august that we just can’t get...
The Real TomTom Test
Back in September I wrote an article about the TomTom iPhone app based solely on my opinion without actually having the product. Today I write...
TomTom app Coming Soon! (It’s Here!)
So the word on the streets is that in the US we will be seeing the official TomTom GPS Navigation app first thing in the...
GPS Apps without offline Maps is a giant scam. AT&T is kidding themselves.
I don’t want to hear about any GPS system for the iPhone that doesn’t include offline maps. Hell, someone could release a free GPS navigation...
Google Speak to Search Available, and it doesn’t like Canadians.
Like every other location based application on the Appstore, Canadians in any city not named Toronto get the shaft. It’s annoying that the national capital,...