location based services

Latest Cortana will offer to remember more places with nick names

4 years

The latest back-end update to Cortana is intended to make location-based services easier. The app will not offer to remember more places you frequent, and also let you give them nick names (previously you could only nick name a pl...

Microsoft giving some Com.Geo students early access to Windows Phone 8

by Surur

7 years

While we are all salivating for a taste of Windows Phone 8 it seems a selection of Geo-Spatial Computer Science students have an opportunity to get early access to the new OS. Microsoft is offering undergraduate or graduate studen...

Microsoft getting into the Location-based ad game with Local Scout

by Surur

7 years

One of the holy grails of advertising is location-based ads, and when combined with search ads it makes for a rather good revenue opportunity for the provider. Techie-buzz noticed that Microsoft finally got into the game, by offer...

Real Time traffic updates comes to Nokia Drive in selected cities

by Surur

7 years

Nokia has announced the availability of real time traffic updates for their Nokia Drive users on Symbian and Windows Phone 7. The service will initially only be available in Delhi and Mumbai, but will eventually expand to ot...

Nokia Maps also updated to version 1.3

by Surur

7 years

After Nokia Drive being updated to version 2.0, Nokia did not rest, and have just published an update for the Nokia Maps app which brings it up to version 1.3. Unlike the Nokia Drive update Nokia did not provide a change log, but ...

Windows Phone documentation reveals new Location Service Notification

by Surur

7 years

It seems updated Windows Phone documentation on Microsoftâ€™s Windows Phone Help site has revealed a minor new feature in Windows Phone Tango. When an application utilises the Location API a new notification icon (right) will...

Nokia’s map data coming to Bing Maps, along with branding

by Surur

7 years

Nokiaâ€™s CEO Stephen Elop appears to have indicated that the integration of Nokiaâ€™s map data with Bing Maps is due. "Part of the relationship we established with Microsoft is that we are clearly placing a bet on ...

Microsoft admits location data privacy breach, promises Windows Phone 7.5 fixes it

by Surur

7 years

Microsoft has issues a statement admitting to the accusations that their camera app ignores user preference and still transmits location data to Microsoft even when the user declines the request. In a statement the spokesman said:...

Nokia Perks Coupon service leaked

by Surur

8 years

From a now removed Vimeo video we learn Nokia is launching a coupon service called Nokia Perks, designed to generate paperless coupons which can be used to score discounts. The system would allow one to look up deals from your pho...

Bing extends Trip Planning to City Discovery

by Surur

8 years

Video: Bing Feature Update: Check out top city attractions before you go Bing always touts itself as the decision engine, and a question which comes up very often is “What should we do today.” Bing plans to make that easy with...

Should Windows Phone 7 have a Location hub?

by Surur

8 years

Jamie Thompson asks, on his blog, whether Windows phone 7 needs a seventh hub, for location-based services. Of course it would be a good location for native features such as turn by turn GPS navigation and future Microsoft locatio...

Windows Mobile FourSquare client, WinMoSquare, receives massive updated

by Surur

9 years

There are not many FourSquare clients for Windows Mobile, and the most high profile one also seems to be the most buggy. Users will therefore appreciate that a new update for WinMoSquare has been released. WinMoSquare Beta 1.5.0.0...