The battle of mobile platform supremacy has been heating-up over the past couple of weeks. Firstly Apple announced the latest incarnation of their desktop and mobile operating systems: Mountain Lion and iOS 6. While these will bring a wide range of incremental enhancements, the much-anticipated announcement of Apple’s own mapping service – in place of [...]
Just 4 months to go from today until the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. So far preparations for the sporting events themselves appear to be going very smoothly. However, in typical style, the british media has been hunting for negatives, with ticket allocation, legacy use of the main stadium and anticpiated traffic congestion all regularly [...]
It’s almost 2 weeks since Apple’s launch of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5, and it rather feels like business as usual with 3 announcements that will surely see the Android platform continue to gather momentum. 1) Ice Cream Sandwich. Last week saw the announcement of the 4th version of Android – “Ice Cream Sandwich”. [...]
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S last week, the instant reaction from many observers was one of disappointment both due to the rather low-key presentation and the lack of an all-new iPhone 5. In hindsight the muted atmosphere was completely understandable as we now know Steve Jobs sadly passed away a day later. We can [...]
The march of Android continues unabated. No matter which market share statistic you care to read, Google’s mobile operating system goes from strength to strength, giving Apple’s iPhone (but not so much the iPad) a run for it’s money and sweeping aside previously dominant phone manufacturers like Nokia. In terms of sheer growth in handset [...]
It was great to see CoPilot Live make a TV appearance in the UK last night on The Gadget Show. CoPilot was the only smartphone navigation product to get a mention in their top 5 sat nav round-up, alongside several dedicated devices. The focus of the segment was on our Live Link location-sharing feature. UK [...]
As London endures yet more travel chaos with another Tube strike, it was interesting to witness today just how many enforced walkers were staring at their mobile phones. The advantages of phone-based sat nav can manifest itself in many ways and today was just one of those examples, with the smartphone user at least able [...]
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