Articles tagged with: Navigation and Nokia

Mapping firm's drive is on display

Most people go to Sullivan's for the food. But Robert Tuveson and Ian Giddings, geographic analysts for Navteq, went to make sure the popular restaurant on Boston Harbor's Castle Island was really there. more

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Nokia UK to Offer Free "Black Cab" Taxi Rides

..k. Each cab is installed with a Nokia X6 device, preloaded with the OVI Maps satellite navigation service allowing passengers the chance to try the service out for themselves and track their journey using its guided turn-by-turn drive voice na more

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Nokia and Yahoo Confirm Mobile Internet Services Partnership

..web services. As part of the alliance Nokia will be the exclusive provider of Yahoo's maps and navigation services, integrating Ovi Maps across Yahoo properties, branded as "powered by Ovi." In addition, Yahoo will become the exclusiv more

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Nokia shakes up leadership to tackle rivals

Nokia has announced plans to introduce a simplified company structure for its devices and services business comprised of three units: Mobile Solutions, Mobile Phones and Markets. Effective from July, the move aims to accelerate product development and software execution.  more

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Nokia aims to "close the gap with the competition" in the smartphone market

..30 different languages.Nokia's free pedestrian and car navigation software has been downloaded more than 10 million times since it was launched in January. The service is now available for more than 70 countries and in more than 45 langua more

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Nokia's Ovi Maps can Now Talk in your Own Voice

..e to personalise the voice that gives them turn-by-turn instructions when using Ovi Maps drive navigation. The Own Voice app enables users to create a new voice pack, taking them through each of 53 steps of the process. The app lets you browse more

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Nokia CEO to Face Frustrated Shareholders

..le services with its Ovi store and offering free navigation and music download services to new customers. The move is thought by some though to have distracted the company from its core competency of designing mobile phones. However, despite t more

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Finns Show Strong Interest in McDonalds When Driving

..ough, 39% selected the click-to-navigate option which offered "drive to" or "walk to" navigation to the nearest McDonald's location using Nokia's Ovi Maps navigation. "Targeting consumers when they are near our locations and then navigating  more

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Continental and Nokia to Embed Mobile Connectivity into Vehicles

..vers and passengers want to use their mobile phone applications -- like free in-vehicle navigation -- while inside their car. However, displaying navigation information on a small and static mobile phone screen while inside a car is the wrong h more

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Nokia's Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week

..Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. "When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer. The number of people now using their Nokia for navigation, and as a result looking for more location-aware so more

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