Sentence examples for a navigation service from inspiring English sources
This year, TeleNav introduced a navigation service for cellphones that offers 3-D graphics, color maps and text and verbal turn-by-turn directions.
"We're trying to mimic a person sitting next to you who knows the area really well," said Sal Dhanani, a senior director for marketing at TeleNav, a navigation service for cellphones.
Sal Dhanani, senior director of marketing and product management for TeleNav in Santa Clara, Calif., a navigation service that uses the Global Positioning System, said that his industry, and his customers, had benefited from technologies of miniaturization and the exponential gains in chip speed and power over the years.
Mapbox, the OpenStreetMap-based mapping platform that lets app developers incorporate maps into any app, is adding another feature to better compete against the likes of Google Maps, ESRI and Nokia Maps: Smart Directions, a navigation service that developers can customise with extra details such type of terrain, specific places of interest, and current traffic conditions.
"People do definitely look for a possibility to get a reliable navigation service that's not dependent on Internet connectivity," says Thielking.
Online book and music seller Amazon.com said on Monday that it would buy three Internet companies, including a rare book and music sales site, an e-commerce firm and a web navigation service for $645 million in stock.
The service, previously known as ThinkNear and recently acquired by Telenav, a personalized navigation service, works by determining a person's location; figuring out whether that place is a home or a store, a health club or a sports stadium; analyzing weather and other local conditions; and then showing a mobile ad tailored to the situation.
And he needs to turn that vision into cash: "What's Mike McCurry's primary challenge?" said James Carville, a former Clinton campaign strategist and now a spokesman for RealNames.com, an Internet navigation service.
Navitime, a pioneer in online map navigation here, claims to provide a "total navigation" service on every available transportation medium, and the service largely lives up to its name.
Marcus Thielking, co-founder of Skobbler, a mobile navigation service that competes with Apple Maps, said the aerial imagery of landmarks like the Statue of Liberty has become much better in his use of the Apple service.
Facebook Said to Be in Talks Over Buying Waze | If Facebook were to buy Waze, a mobile navigation service, it would give the social network the ability to better deliver locally tailored ads and content to its users, The New York Times reports.
