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Microsoft has joined with Nokia on mobile apps and recently released tools for software developers to build mapping applications for its Windows 8 operating system.
London-based eeGeo, which works with the likes of Cisco, Samsung and more on mapping applications for consumers and businesses, has raised $5 million, money that it will use both to expand its business in areas like 3D mapping applications, but also move deeper into newer areas where quality immersive visualizations are going to be essential — such as virtual reality environments.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple has acquired a Silicon Valley startup, WiFiSlam, which makes mapping applications for smart phones.
MapReduce is an alternative distribution strategy to SPMD and DMW [ 43], which is implemented in the Hadoop framework [ 44] that is used by several other distributed mapping applications (for example [ 22– 22]).
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But today that should change, as the company has opted for a Bing Maps-powered mapping application for the OS.
In 2011, he developed an urban mapping application for his PhD project.
Nokia has released Here, its newly rebranded mapping application, for iOS devices running iOS 4.3 and up.
When Apple broke away from Google and launched its own mapping application for iOS 6, on top of all the other problems it had, it removed transit directions and instead directed users to download other apps — including HopStop.
TomTom also sells software applications, including a Western European mapping application for the Apple iPhone, which costs 60 pounds ($97) to download, but even that needs a TomTom car kit with built-in GPS receiver to employ the turn-by-turn instructions.
CityMaps, a company in the news this week for a new version of its mobile mapping application for iOS, has raised an additional round of $1.5 million in outside funding – an extension of its earlier Series A, this time bringing in new investors, including Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade Investments, Steve Papa (founder of Endeca, which sold to Oracle), and other angels.
Personally I think that somewhere along the line Google will take its mobile mapping application for handsets – which now does quasi location triangulation – and turn on social features, and then that will kill off all the startups that can't compete with its marketing muscle.
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