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Gmail for iOS update lets users automatically open links in Chrome, YouTube, or Safari
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Google has been putting serious work into building a full ecosystem on iOS, and today it's adding a couple of much-needed tweaks to Gmail in an App Store update. Instead of bringing up a web page inside Gmail when the user clicks a link, it will open the separate...
Police Down Under rescue Apple map users
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Australian police warn against using Apple Maps, Instagram pulls photos off Twitter, and Valve works on a new video game console. [Read more]...
Craigslist rolls out Map View feature for apartment listings in select cities
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Craigslist on Wednesday introduced a new Map View feature that displays the location of apartment listings across select cities. As The Next Web reports, the mapping feature is apparently rolling out on a gradual basis, and is currently available for apartment listings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Ann...
Breaking News debuts its first iPad app for discovering news before everyone else
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If you’re not aware, the @BreakingNews account on Twitter is one of the speediest at getting the latest worldwide breaking news to the masses. It’s quite impressive to see how far along it has come. Since MSNBC acquired the service in 2010, it keeps getting better. Today, the team launched...
Amazon's S3 Now Stores Over 1.3 Trillion Objects, 3.7 Million Elastic Map Reduce Clusters Launched Since May 2010
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At Amazon’s first re: Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today, the company’s vice president for Amazon Web Services Andy Jassy announced that the company’s S3 storage service now stores a total of 1.3 trillion objects and handles over 830,000 requests per second. Jassy also announced that the company’s users...
Amazon's S3 Now Stores Over 1.3 Trillion Objects, 3.7 Million Elastic Map Reduce Clusters Launched Since May 2010
Craigslist cuts off its search engine to spite its face
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Craigslist, the once-loved classified site, is continuing its ill-tempered rampage against would-be competitors that offer cleaner designs and better user experiences. Last month, it sued popular site PadMapper for using information from Craigslist to plot apartments on a map. Weeks later, Craigslist changed its terms of service to say that...
Apple Wins Patents for Touch, Motion, Maps & Strange Icon
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The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of twenty-nine newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In today's report we mainly cover Apple's granted patents relating to a future magic mouse for graphics and gaming, touch display technology, Apples Map + Compass app, video editing app Motion...
iPhone 5 coming soon to regional carrier Strata Networks covering Idaho, Utah and Colorado
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It looks like yet another regional carrier is set to receive the iPhone 5. While it has yet to post pricing or exact availability dates, Utah-based Strata Networks recently started advertising that the device is “coming soon” to its network. Back in November, Strata officially rolled out its LTE...
How transparent is world aid data? Visualise where the money flows and win $2,000
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Can you visualise the world of aid - and how transparent it is? If you could, you too could win $2,000• Datasets• Terms and conditions• More data journalism and data visualisations from the GuardianHelp us visualise the flow of aid around the world. How transparent is aid data? Millions of...
Use This Gorgeous iPhone App To Know EXACTLY When It's Going To Rain
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In our battle against the elements, Dark Sky is definitely a digital tool we want to have in our pocket. The weather app for iPhone aims to tell you exactly when it it going to rain down to the hour. And Dark Sky is beautifully crafted to boot. Couple that with...
Gadgetwise Blog: App Smart Extra: More on Maps
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More thoughts on map apps, including a radical suggestion....
There's A Major Flaw In Zynga's Plan To Fix Itself (ZNGA)
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Zynga has a plan to fix itself that involves becoming a more mobile-focused company and putting more resources behind the "With Friends" brand, Shayndi Raice at the Wall Street Journal reports. It has no choice but to figure out mobile. Zynga's mobile users are growing three times faster than its...
Shazam's new Windows Phone app integrates with Xbox Music
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Following its revamped iPad app last week, music and TV show discovery service Shazam rolled out a new Windows Phone 8 app today. Shazam’s app will still allow you unlimited tagging of music and TV programs, but this version takes advantage of the Windows Phone platform. Like the iPad...
These Features Make HotPads Great For Apartment Shopping
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If you're about to move to an unfamiliar area then HotPads could save you time, money and a hassle. On the surface HotPads is just like every other map based apartment and house search service that you've seen. You search by entering how many bedrooms you want, the city you're going...
Report: Google complicating Facebook Waze purchase with buyout offer
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Reports have surfaced that Google is considering a competitive bid for map software developer Waze. The move comes after sources indicated that Facebook had held talks to buy Waze. Reportedly, no one company is close to closing the deal, and Waze itself may choose to use venture backing to expand...
Black Marble: Google Maps Now Lets You Explore The Earth At Night
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Earlier this year, NASA updated its iconic “Blue Marble” image of the Earth, and last week, it released the first version of the “Black Marble,” its image of the planet at night. We’ll still have to wait and see if the “Black Marble” will be just as iconic as NASA’s...
10 Startups, 13 Intense Weeks: The teams grill each other as 3 demo days loom
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For episode 10 in our video series following the Springboard Mobile accelerator in London, we decided to let the teams interview each other. Watch as Flitto, We Are Pop Up, I Judge Fights and House Map – under pressure with three demo days in London, New York and Silicon Valley set to take place just a fortnight from...
Google updates Google+ apps for mobile, adds photo filters to iPhone app
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Google is today refreshing its Google+ mobile apps across both iOS and Android. On the iPhone side, the company is finally leveraging its acquisition of Snapseed. Photo filters and minor enhancements (contrast, brightness, etc) have been brought over to iOS, though you'll still need to turn to the standalone...
Gaza-Israel crisis 2012: every verified incident mapped
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What has happened in Gaza and Israel since the assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed al-Jabari? This map shows all the verified incidents reported by news sources and wires across the region since thenAmi SedghiJohn Burn-MurdochSimon Rogers...
Foursquare refreshes iOS app for streamlined exploring, speedier check-ins
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Building upon redesigned version 5.0, Foursquare has updated its iOS app (sorry, Android users, our guess is that you're coming up next). The refresh provides a number of cosmetic changes, including a tighter check-in screen that omits addresses in favor of a map view of your surroundings (and seems...
Swarmly Debuts Its 'Waze For People' On iOS -- Know Where Is Hot Or Not, Right Now
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Swarmly, a newly-released app for iPhone, thinks it’s seen a gap in the location sharing market. Unlike check-in apps like Foursquare or indeed Facebook’s own location sharing feature, it places far less emphasis on the social graph to focus on anonymous, aggregate location data — powered by each Swarmly user’s...
Google Posts New Images Of Superstorm Devastation
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Both Google Maps Mania and the Google Earth Blog are reporting that Google has started to post-Sandysatellite imagery showing the destruction in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Specifically, via the Google Crisis Map, you can select these areas for post-Sandy Imagery: Beach Haven to Cape May,... Please visit Search Engine...
John Snow's cholera map of London recreated
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What would John Snow's famous cholera map look like on a modern map of London, using modern mapping tools?Simon Rogers...
Lookout's Signal Flare Finds Your Lost Phone Even When It's Dying
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Today, Lookout, makers of the Lookout Mobile Security app for smartphones, released a new feature for iPhone users that will help locate a phone even when the battery is dead. Dubbed Signal Flare, the tool automatically records your phone’s location when your handset’s battery is low. Users will then be...
What are the best student apps?
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Struggling to manage your money, work and play? There are thousands of apps that promise to make life easier - we've put some of the biggest names head-to-headClear vs. Wunderlist Wunderlist, free. Available for iTunes and AndroidClear, £1.49. Available for iTunesBoth are simple list makers, but Wunderlist doubles as a...
Instagram Adds Photo Maps, To Save You From Infinite Scrolling Through Food Pics
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Instagram’s new look. (Photo: Instagram’s blog) Guess the tiny team at Instagram (still a mere 14 people) isn’t letting the legal maneuvering around their acquisition become a distraction. The company just released incarnation 3.0 of its mobile photo-sharing app. The crucial change: The addition of Photo Maps, a new feature that will allow users to...
Google Adds Trail Maps For 100 Additional Ski Resorts To Google Maps
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Winter is almost over, but that isn’t stopping Google from expanding its list of ski runs on Google Maps. Just over a month after its last update, Google today announced that it has added trail maps for another 100 resorts in the U.S. and Canada to Google Maps. Today’s update...
BluTracker lets you locate your stuff within 2,500 feet, we go hands-on (video)
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Yesterday, we told you about StickNFind, a nifty electronic sticker that lets you locate anything you tack it to, and MeterPlug, the smartphone-compatible power monitor with cost estimates and realtime consumption readouts. Now, the folks that brought you those Bluetooth-enabled tools have a new connected toy to share. It's...
Google lets iOS developers replace Apple map data with its own
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In addition to releasing its own Google Maps app for iOS, Google is now offering up its improved, vector-based maps to iOS developers looking for an alternative to Apple's at-times flawed data. Developers can essentially replace Apple's native MapKit APIs with the Google Maps SDK for iOS, though integrating...
The End of the Map
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It’s not often that maps make headlines, but they’ve been doing so with some regularity lately. Last week, tens of millions of iPhone users found that they could suddenly leave their homes again without getting either lost or cross. This was because Google finally released an app containing its own...
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