Mobile World Congress, Barcelona – Leading mobile GPS navigation developer ALK Technologies has announced that its CoPilot® Live™ v8 GPS navigation mobile app will now include integral access to local Internet search as standard across all supported smartphone platforms.

Previously available as a premium option, CoPilot Live v8’s integrated access to local search enables users to quickly and easily find whatever they are looking for, whether it’s the nearest service, product, brand or shop. Search results are displayed in the on-screen map or as a list. Make your choice and CoPilot Live will guide you right there, with on-screen and spoken turn-by-turn directions.

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Users can now teach waze their alternative route preferences to frequent destinations, plus see how they stack up against the local and worldwide competition

Waze, the first free provider of driver-generated maps and real-time road information geared towards everyday driving, today announced a new version featuring personalized alternative routes as well as a scoreboard, allowing commuters to see where they stand among the larger driving community in their area.

Waze specializes in optimizing everyday driving. Unlike regular navigation, when commuting, users most often have clear preferences for specific routes, and know the alternatives. The information that they are missing is:  what’s happening on my alternative routes RIGHT now, and which route they should take. Waze’s new alternative routes feature is personalized, allowing users to teach waze the multiple routes to destinations that they commonly travel to.

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It seems unlikely that the word crisis would disappear from our life in the near future. Controlling our personal financial status has been always important but, these days, it seems even more important. There are many applications for financial management and banking supervision for the iPhone, hard to choose between a range this wide. Today we will analyze SplashMoney from SplashData. The version I’ve tested is 4.7.2, the update was made in December last year.

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Nav4D has just released several edition of their brand new Turn-by-Turn Voice guided GPS app. In just a few days they released for the following editions; Brazil, France, UK - Ireland, Mexico, Portugal, Germany, Spain and South Africa.

The application looks very basic, although it also incorporates the 3D landmarks, like iGO My way and NDrive. There is not much info yet available at this moment. It has POI support, some POI search and 2D and 3D views.

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To celebrate the Year of the Tiger, Rockstar Games is pleased to announce a special price promotion with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for iPhone and iPod touch. Starts Friday 12th February and will end next Monday 15th at 05:59 am ET Spanish. One of the most rated games for laptops will have a 30% discount on the iTunes App Store.

Happy Chinese New Year!

NAVIGON is offering app developers the opportunity to link their programs to MobileNavigator, making navigation using an iPhone even easier.

NAVIGON is now offering an open “AppInteract” interface for MobileNavigator. The navigation provider is thus giving app developers the opportunity to integrate the NAVIGON app into their own applications. All the information needed for seamless integration is being provided by NAVIGON. A document with all the relevant instructions is available at http://www.navigon.com/appinteract.

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Michal Stencl, Sygic’s CEO explains: “In this major Mobile Maps update for iPhone, that we are giving to our customers for free, we have tried to include maximum of the features our users demanded so far, as well as our own ideas to make the app even more useful and user-friendly. We are thankful to all people who have provided their feedback on our product. We hope they’ll like the results and we encourage them to speak to us anytime they’d like to share any comment or idea.”

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Keep in touch: new update personalises the NAVIGON iPhone app and provides social media connection to Twitter and Facebook

NAVIGON just announced a new update to their iPhone GPS flagship application Mobile Navigator. Version 1.4.0 was already packed with new features and they are arriving to the point that one can question if there are still new functions to be imagined for a GPS application, so great already. The Live Traffic feature is the most useful fearture since Mobile Navigator’s launch, if you ask me. Today they are pushing the limits of the app even further by integrating social media giants Twitter and Facebook.

On the display side, you will have the In-App purchase option of Panorama View3D which makes TomTom look like a Commodore 64 application instantly.

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New York, Andy Prior, Feb 06 2010.

You ever get lost when going from point A to point B? Ever have that back seat driver telling you, you missed the turn they failed to tell you about, where there wasn’t anything you can do about? Ever think your always late for an event because your directions were just a little off? If any of these questions have you saying “Yes” in your head then this review of NDrive is for you. So buckle up and let’s take it out for a spin.

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I was reading an interesting news article from pocketgames this morning, where they unveiled hints in the code to a new device called the N89, which includes video codec for 720p.

720p means basically that the resolution is 720 pixels vertical by 1280 pixels horizontal with progressive scan. It has a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9.

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