Archive for the ‘Lokale Suche per Smartphone’ Category

The latest version of the Google Maps app 6.0 for Android has an interesting new feature: indoor navigation. Until now, users could find their way outdoors thanks to a handy blue dot showing the user’s current location. Now, users can take advantage of this option indoors. Read the rest of this entry »

The US-Patent Office has promised Apple a patent for location-based information services that may effect other providers of location-based services. The industrial property law with the code RE42,927 and the title “System and method for obtaining an using location specific information” is broad enough to affect all mobile services using location-based material. Read the rest of this entry »

The tantalizing scent of roasted almonds, waffles, and mulled wine is in the air and invites guests to visit the popular Christmas markets. Now a special local search app shows us where the nearest market is: the free Christmas market search application for Apple and Android smartphones from Das Örtliche. Read the rest of this entry »

In the growing overkill of daily deal e-mails, users are beginning to see the daily alerts as spam in their mailboxes. Daily deal aggregator Yipit is trying to change this with its new app for iPhone users. Users can now find daily deals from over 800 sources, including Groupon, LivingSocial, GiltCity, and many more. Read the rest of this entry »

Future Tap is introducing user experience reports to its mobile, location-based iPhone application “Where To?” with the new 4.0 update. User can rate their experience on the spot at newly visited locations.
Ortwin Gentz, Future Tap’s CEO, described the new feature in a short and concise: “Where is the next Pizzeria, the next dentist or the next hair salon? The local search app Where To? for iPhone finds it at the drop of a hat. It is familiar with 700+ local categories and thousands of brands and chains. The new 4.0 version now displays ratings and reviews and allows to review places right within the app. So users know right away whether a visit is worthwhile.” Read the rest of this entry »

There’s certainly little doubt that Google is the leading power for local search. But this doesn’t mean that there isn’t any competition. In fact, Google chairman Eric Schmidt seems to believe that Google is not immortal, as he writes in a letter to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights. The giant’s biggest threat? Siri. Read the rest of this entry »

The free location-based recommendation app Alfred, developed by Clever Sense, now offers users “group recommendations”, displaying those locations that other people also enjoy in the latest version of the app, in addition to custom results especially for the users. Read the rest of this entry »

Android users can now enjoy the mobile Trover application to discover their current location or even the entire world with location-based photos. The start-up company Trover launched in July of this year with its iPhone app. Now the “mobile discovery network” has over 100 thousand users in 160 countries around the world, according to the site. With the new launch of the Android version, there is a lot of potential new customers. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian provider for mobile location-based services and local advertising Poynt Corporation has announced that the Poynt app for location-based search has now been downloaded over ten million times since the release in June 2008. The free application is available for the iPhone, Android-, Windows Phone-, and Nokia-devices, as well as for BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets in the coordinating app stores. Read the rest of this entry »

“Picking up where amazing left off” – the new slogan for the iPhone 4S. Quite some words, considering that many die-hard Apple fans are quite disappointed in the lack of an iPhone 5. But just because there is no optical difference between the previous iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, it still has some pretty spectacular features for users to check out that can make local searches be conducted in a much more elegant fashion. Read the rest of this entry »