Waze’s newest update lets you control the app, a little, with a wave and a word.

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The great, free car navigation app Waze (see Rafe Recommends) is getting an update today that gives it a limited hands-free, voice-controlled interface.

Waze is now perhaps the only app to use the phone’s promixity sensor to turn on the input interface, since Google removed that feature from its (more…)

TeleNav has just unveiled their new navigation service called Scout at CES 2012, which can be accessed via an
, a web app on Scout.me and in-car systems.
Scout is different from other navigation and discovery services because it provides a single, easy-to-use experience for daily information that is important and customized for each driver’s personal journey. Using Scout, drivers can easily and efficiently navigate their commutes, run errands, (more…)

has brought a few changes recently, including improved navigation on the iPad and local currency payments in China.
reports that the App Store on the iPad was updated yesterday to include swiping. The “New and Noteworthy” and “Staff Favorites” sections now show page markers at the bottom of the page and users can swipe left and right to quickly navigate through pages of apps.
This has also been implementing in the “Release Date” section, along (more…)

One of the desktop Safari features that we miss in Mobile Safari for iPhone , iPad and iPod touch, is the back and forward navigation history, which allows you to jump directly to a URL from the list.
Currently in Mobile Safari, you can only go to the previous or the next webpage using the navigation buttons at the bottom. So if you want to go few webpages back, you need to keep tapping on the back button.
Thankfully jailbreak tweak aptly called (more…)

Google has released an updated version of Google Maps for mobile browsers for iOS and Android devices.
According to Google, the reason for releasing a new version of its Google Maps web app is to provide users a consistent experience wherever they use it.
Frankly, it’s disappointing to see Google releasing updated version of their Google Maps web app when we’ve been waiting for the native
.
with features such as 3D views, turn-by-turn (more…)

- a mapping software developer, the company may finally be looking at building an in-house navigational software application; something that we have been anticipating for a while.
The Apple job board has a number of new openings for iOS engineers who have experience working on navigational software.
In the posting, Apple explains that the new position will require engineers with ”
“. Apple is noted to be hiring four engineers for this position (more…)

And software is nothing but copyable data.
You really need to wake the hell up, and bring the rest of the planet with you, because old copyright laws designed to perpetuate capitalist ideals of charging money for every imaginable thing aren't going to last much longer. When the number one product on Earth is something that only needs to be produced ONCE, you no longer have a product that works within a system that was designed to run off of (more…)

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that it plans to bring free turn-by-turn GPS Navigation with voice guidance to the iPhone .
“We did not say we would bring it to iPhone , we said to date we've had it on Android and that in the future it may come to other platforms but did not confirm this will be coming to iPhone at all,”
It’s not clear why Google isn’t planning to bring the free turn-by-turn GPS Navigation with voice guidance to the iPhone , which is the biggest smartphone (more…)

Google confirmed at a London press conference that it plans to bring free satnav to other smartphone platforms, including the iPhone , although it wouldn’t say when.
like TomTom are quite expensive on the App Store.
Since Google Maps Navigation doesn’t store maps on the device like other apps it pre-caches the entire route when a user requests for directions. Google Mobile Maps product manager, Steve Lee explains:
“Google Maps pre-caches (more…)