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Google Maps updated with Google contact search, local categories

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 5th, 2013)

Google updated its Maps application with several new features that make the app a bit more personal. The biggest change will be in search, which now integrates with your Google contacts. Once you sign in to your Google account with Google Maps, the app will pull in the names and addresses from ...

Madrid's visitors can rent tourist-friendly iPads

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 8th, 2012)

If you're vacationing in Madrid, you may want to check out PadInTheCity before you arrive. The local service lets you rent an iPad for the duration of your stay. The iPad is filled with apps and games to make your stay more enjoyable. According to Springwise, you'll find apps like Metro Madrid, ...

Daily iPad App: Highlights

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 30th, 2011)

Today's daily iPad app is Highlights, an app that lets you find new and interesting places around you based on crowd sourced recommendations from check-in services Gowalla and Foursquare. The app works by scanning Gowalla and Foursquare reviews and then processing them through Highlights' ...

Apple confirms iCloud won't offer iTunes streaming to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2011)

The iTunes Match beta opened up to developers yesterday, and in case you were somehow under the impression that it actually offered streaming of music to your iOS device, you're mistaken. Apple has confirmed, because apparently there was confusion, that iTunes Match doesn't stream music. ...

Video App Demo: Vidcinity

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 30th, 2011)

Vidcinity is an app addressing the niche market of local video discovery. The idea is that you'll upload videos for a location and others will come along and discover those videos. I'm not sure we're ready for this just yet, but it's an interesting idea. Check out the demo below. Of course, ...

iPad explorations with Qwiki

by Chris Ward (Apr 21st, 2011)

The developers behind the Qwiki website have produced a pretty cool iPad app version of the site. The app looks like a great way to experience Qwiki's narrated-encyclopaedia version of the world, offering location-sensitive lookups and making full use of the touch-capabilities of the ...

iGroups patent suggests Apple is looking at social networking

by Mike Schramm (Mar 18th, 2010)

A new Apple patent is going around that offers up something called "iGroups" functionality -- it seems to be a kind of location-based social networking, including an ad-hoc currency functionality between a crowd of Apple devices. It's pretty interesting, though it sounds more like an idea Apple is ...

$10,000 worth of iPhones stolen from Lancaster, PA Apple Store

by Mike Schramm (Dec 11th, 2009)

Apple Stores continue to be sizable targets for theft, it seems -- the local paper in Lancaster, PA reports that four young men stole 17 iPhones from the displays at an Apple Store recently, resulting in almost $10,000 worth of losses. The robbery took place during the day; at around 1:30pm, the ...