A new update to the desktop web version of Nokia’s Ovi Maps has been rolled out, called ‘Good Things’. Basically, this is user-generated P.O.I’s, and it allows you to mark ‘good things’ that you know of on the map, and share those landmarks with the world. Ovi Maps Good Things is most likely a result [...]
When Nokia purchased Gate5 several years ago, and then Navteq and Plazes more recently, we knew the company was betting big on location-based services. Since then, Nokia Maps has come out, all the way up to the beta of V3.0, with Ovi Synchronization and a host of other cool updates. We’ve seen a few other [...]
This popped up on the Forum Nokia blogs, and I thought it was rather interesting. Developer Paul Coulton has gotten back into location-based services, and come up with Point’N’Seek, a new search application that uses your location, as well as other sensors to take a flashlight approach to location-based searching. The application uses sensors such [...]
We let you know about Nokia’s Friend View application/service last week, and have been using it off-and-on ourselves. It seems to work great, but apparently there were some bugs, because Nokia has just released an update, to v.83.3 (over .83.0). There’s no changelog, and it wasn’t officially announced anywhere, but I’ve already updated and am [...]
Saara at the S60 blogs has let us know that S60 is sponsoring the Canalys Navigation Forum, which takes place in Half Moon Bay, California on October 14-15th this year. Half Moon Bay is just slightly south of San Francisco and Mountain View, where Nokia has its design center for the U.S. The new S60 [...]
Simple purchase, simple title. Nokia announced this morning that they had purchased Plazes, a location-based microblogging service, as best as I can tell. Plazes is another German company, which is interesting since Nokia previously purchased Gate5 from Germany, and then closed down its Bochum plant and upset pretty much the whole country. I’ve signed up [...]
I found this in the Download! application about a month ago, and was going to do a writeup, but couldn’t for the life of me get the dern thing to recognize my N95′s internal GPS. I tried everything, up to and including running several GPS-based applications in the background, to make sure I actually had [...]
