Posts Tagged ‘Navigationsgerät’
TomTom Navigation Devices Now Featuring Apps
It’s hard to imagine anyone driving around with maps and hand-written directions anymore, all thanks to personal navigation devices like TomTom. But since personal navigation systems have been released, there hasn’t been many dramatic changes, that is until now: TomTom has announced that its Go Live 1535 M will be the first PNS offering apps like Twitter, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Expedia, in addition to the TomTom’s VIA connected services displaying fuel prices, weather, and Google’s local search. Read the rest of this entry »
Nokia: Welt-Navi für lau
1 Feb. 2010 | Author: Ute De Mitri |
Konkurrenz für Google: Seit 21. Januar dieses Jahres bietet Nokia seinen Navigationsdienst Ovi Maps mit Kartenmaterial zu mehr als 180 Ländern für seine GPS-fähigen Smartphones kostenlos an. Zunächst steht die Gratissoftware für zehn solcher Geräte zur Verfügung, weitere folgen in Kürze.
Der finnische Handy-Riese Nokia antwortet mit seiner kostenlosen Navigationslösung Ovi Maps auf den Vorstoß des Internet-Riesen Google, der im November vergangenen Jahres mit seiner Map Navigation (wir berichteten) eine Gratis-App für Android-Smartphones herausbrachte. Das Google-Angebot gibt es bislang nur für die USA. Nokia hingegen bietet seine Fahrzeug- und Fußgängernavigation für 74 Länder und in 46 Sprachen an. Laut Nokia steht bereits für 180 Länder – nahezu für die ganze Welt – das Kartenmaterial zur Verfügung.
Google wird deshalb nicht zittern, sondern schnell nachlegen. Unter Druck geraten könnten jedoch Hersteller klassischer mobiler Navigationsgeräte.
Posted in Lokale Suche per Smartphone, Local Search | 
Tags: Navi, Navigation, Navigationsdienst, Navigationsgerät, Nokia, Ovi Maps, Smartphone | 
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Lokale Suche für den Lastwagen
10 Aug. 2009 | Author: Antonio De Mitri |
TomTom Work hat ein neues Navigationsgerät für Nutzfahrzeuge auf den Markt gebracht, das Bürokommunikation und lokale Suche miteinander kombiniert.
Wie die B2B-Sparte des Navigationsanbieters in einer Pressemitteilung erklärt, handelt es sich beim TomTom 9000 um ein neues sogenanntes Connected-Navigationsgerät, das speziell auf die Bedürfnisse von Berufsfahrern zugeschnitten sei. Demnach kann der Fahrer mit ein und demselben Gerät sein Zeit- und Auftragsmanagement erledigen, mit seinem Disponenten kommunizieren, aber auch wichtige ortsbezogene Informationen abrufen. Dazu gehören einerseits die klassischen TomTom-Funktionen wie Routenplanung und Verkehrsinformationen in Echtzeit, aber auch die Verbindung mit der lokalen Suche von Google Maps. Dies ermöglicht dem Fahrer, sich unterwegs über interessante Anlaufstellen wie das nächste Hotel, die nächste Tankstelle oder Gaststätte zu informieren.
Posted in Local Search on the go, Local Search, News |
Tags: Echtzeit, Fahrzeuge, google maps, Maps, Navigation, Navigationsgerät, Routen, Routenplanung, TomTom, TomTom 9000, TomTom Work, Verkehrsinformation |
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pointoo finally leaves its pilot phase behind
Pointoo officially was launched in July 2006, and at the end of May 2007, the portal finally ended its beta-status. Since its recent relaunch the local search engine, operated by the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck, now offers more content, new functionality and an improved user interface.
The operators, in a press release, announced this a short time ago.
Differing from other localized search and ratings platforms like Qype, Dialo.de and others, pointoo is foremost a ‘location bookmark service’. Users are able to undertake location-based searches for places such as restaurants, museums, shopping facilities, doctors or service providers, etc. and, if logged in as members of pointoo, save interesting found locations in their own personal locations collection. pointoo has however, some similarities with the aforementioned ‘competitors’- it allows its users to add comments and publish them linked to their saved locations. And for users who cannot find their beloved/preferred local hangout or bakers via the search option, pointoo also allows users to add these locations to the portal. The latest update also enables users to add detail (such as opening times) or photos to existing search results.
Another new feature, is that content is now also provided by other ratings platforms, as well as by the operators and user contribution. According to the operators, the platform is now working with well-known partners, for example: Helpster.de (in the medical ratings sphere) or Autoplenum.de (for the motor zone). Negotiations continue to include further cooperative partners. Found results are now compatible with many navigation devices, allowing for quick and easy transfer to these devices.
pointoo is however, not only a search and bookmarking platform – since its relaunch it now displays even more of a community character. The exchange of contact information among users now facilitates an adjunct to the pure information provided by the site, building a people network, consisting of like-minded or interested users. So when users interested in, for instance, motor cross routes (perhaps a few hundred people in Germany, in an example cited by the operators), thanks to the new functionality of pointoo, they will be enabled to find and connect with each other.
Posted in Web Communities, Local Search per PC, Local Search, News, Practical features |
Tags: Beurteilung, Bewertungsplattform, Bewertungsportal, Community, Georg von Holtzbrinck, location bookmark service, Locations, lokale Informationen, Navigation, Navigationsgerät, Nutzerbewertung, pointoo, Relaunch, User Generated Content, web2.0 |
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Ö-Navi – Mark 2
As early as mid-2007, DasÖrtliche posted a free software program Ö-Navi, to enable cell phones to function as navigation instruments. A new update of this program has been realeased, including several new features up its sleeve.
Actually Ö-Navi 2 is still in Beta-testing (as of mid-August), however its only recently made its official debut in a press release.
To use Ö-Navi, one requires a GPS-capable cell phone, or have the ability to connect to an external GPS device. As in the earlier versions, the software is financed through on-screen advertising, allowing its cost to the customer to be ‘free’. As Ö-Navi 2 is a so-called ‘offboard’ navigation system – using data not installed on the cell phone itself, but rather using data transfer bandwidth for every route enquiry accessed through the software – costs are incurred for data used. These costs are billed by the network provider.
Ö-Navi 2 delivers not only route descriptions, but also for example offers access to the entire databank of the online-directory of DasÖrtliche. Thereby, one can search for private or commercial addresses and receive directions. This was already possible with the first version- new in v.2 is that one can call many of the firms represented there for free from the application.
Another new feature are the so-called Zenlets. According to the operators, these are individual add-on modules, based on new technologies and easily integrated; one can check weather at the destination or look for the closest cash machine. Zenlets can also be developed by uers, and the uses for ‘label’ companies make them well suited for tailer-made applications.
Visually, there have also been changes – Ö-Navi2 presents an easier overview, and the new vector maps allow for reduced load times and improved display.
At present this new edition is still only available for a few select cell phones, but this will change. DasÖrtliche telss that by the end of 2008, it is hoped to have Ö-navi 2 available for all current mobile phones, using a Java-based platform, after which the first edition will be phased out.
To check which current models can use Ö-Navi, check here – one can also download the new Cell phone navigation software, assuming the user has a compatible phone.
Media Directory Association awards “Branch Oscars”
The Association of German Information and Directory Media (VDAV) recently presented the German Directory Media Prize 2008.
As reported by the VDAV, the winner was announced during the VDAV-BranchMeet, a congress of the German directory media industry, which took place from 18 -20 June 2008 in Bremen. The ‘Branch Oscars’ were assigned in three categories for especially innovative products and applications.
In the ‘Electronic Directory Media’, the victor was the free mobile phone navigation Ö-Navi, a product of DasÖrtliche. This free software has been on offer by the telecommunications directory portal since mid-2007, with which one can effectively convert a mobile phone into a navigation device. Financed entirely through adverts, the user receives not only a route description, but also has access to the entire online-database of DasÖrtliche, therewith all private and business addresses and is able to connect this data to the navigation interface.
The decision of the award for second place was deemed problematic by the 6-person jury, resulting in a tie for 2nd place. The first of the ’silver’ prizes went to the mobile version of meinestadt.de. The mobile version of the town-portal was praised by VDAV, according to its operators Allesklar.com AG, especially for its wide-spectrum offering of local information, including their mobile ’situations vacant’ section and the ability to receive job training classifieds, via free SMS.
The 2nd ‘Silver’ trophy went to the online-cooperation between the association “gesundheitstadt berlin” (en=’health city berlin’) and the branch portal “gewusst wo” (en=’knowing where’). The operators of gewusst-wo.de, the publications group Beleke, announced this in a press release.
Alongside the digital sphere, prizes were also awarded to print media and marketing-events. All prize winners can be found on the VDAV website.
Posted in Local Search on the go, Local Search per Mobile phone, Local Search, News, Practical features |
Tags: dasoertliche, DeTeMedien, Handy, Handynavigation, lokale Informationen, meinestadt, meinestadt.de, mobile lokale Suche, Navigation, Navigationsgerät, Ö-Navi, Städteportal, VDAV, VDAV-Branchentreff, Verzeichnisdienst, VerzeichnismedienPreis |
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