According to Trimble announcement two outdoor applications for iPad and Smartphones are available for users. The Outdoors MyTopo Maps and Outdoors Navigator MyTopo Maps, with this Apps, users can start by viewing topographical maps in US and Canada, and also check out worldwide aerial, terrain, street and hybrid maps. Users can also turn on Dual…
DetailsRetail and E-commerce interesting facts: [list unordered]In 2010 over $2,000 per second was spent on eBay By 2009 Amazon was posting a net income of Us$902 billion Starbucks now has 17,000 outlets throughout the coffee-drinking world Today IKEA has 301 stores in 37 countries By 1963, America had munched through a billion McDonald burgers The…
Details54% of developers working on apps for mobile devices are including location based and mapping services into those apps, according to a survey of over 400 mobile developers recently released by market research firm Evans Data. “Naturally location based services are in demand and search and mapping are understandably the top capability developers incorporate, but…
DetailsThe European Commission introduced free, downloadable and ready-to-use Toolkits to help develop enhanced location apps that harness the power of Europe’s EGNOS satellite-based augmentation system. The interest of this toolkit is that it allows an application to receive EGNOS signal without sight of EGNOS geostationary satellites. Indeed these satellites are positioned lower in the sky…
DetailsTomTom has announced its real intentions to sell Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) on the Chinese market with the launch of its GO 1050 World and VIA series devices that are available at leading retailers including IT and 3C in Shanghai and Beijing and online at, amongst others, 360buy, Newegg and ICSON. TomTom’s new GO 1050…
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