If you’ve got a tin foil hat, it’s time to put it on. Recent changes to Apple’s updated privacy policy have given those worried about being watched a reason to be concerned.
It has been less than 24 hours since most of you first laid your hands on your iPad 3Gs and there is already a full-featured turn-by-turn navigation solution available in the App Store. It’s called CoPilot Live HD . ALK Technologies first announced that CoPilot Live HD was coming to the App Store only two days ago and now it’s already available. CoPilot Live HD is a turn-by-turn GPS navigation solution designed specifically for the iPad 3G that offers a new split driving view which combines a 3D or 2D map display with turn instructions, giving you all of the information you need in a single view without having to dig through menus.
A neat thing about Android ( which now also works on the iPhone ) is that it comes with a free turn-by-turn GPS navigation app. I mean, TomTom and Navigon are great, but having to drop almost a $100 on them is very painful. Well, according to MacUser , Google is apparently not planning to keep this as a competitive advantage for its platform. In a press conference this morning, Google announced that it will be bringing its free navigation turn-by-turn sat nav app to UK Android owners, as well as: to other smartphone platforms, including the iPhone , although it wouldn’t say when.
The arrival of multitasking finally got its much overdue announcement this morning in Cupertino with iPhone 4.0. Although it took a few iterations of the iPhone operating system and hardware that could support the function, it’s finally coming to our devices later this summer and will open up many new opportunities with how we use our iPhones. One of the many touted sub features of multitasking, Background Location, will open up brand new ways developers can deliver location based applications.