Some Thoughts on the YP industry & Google in Europe
I am just returning from the SIINDA conference in Budapest. SIINDA is the newly formed association born out of the combined efforts of the EASDP, the European Association of Search and Database Publishers (YPs), and EIDQ, the Association for the Directory Information. Most of the attendees at the conference were Yellow page companies that were […]
Good News, Bad News in the Apple Mapping & Business Listing World
A client, having re-located to a new sub division, contracted with me early last spring to get their new street “on the map” and to clean their NAP. Google, with the help of Dan Austin (a partner on the project) picked up the new streets in about 2 weeks and went live to Maps immediately […]
Microsoft Buys Nokia – What will become of Navteq?
Microsoft bought Nokia today for $7.2 billion dollars. Nokia, you will recall, bought Navteq in 2007 for $8.1 billion in what was hailed at the time as pivotal move by Nokia into location based services. But as Horace Dediu pointed out, by late 2012 Navteq had been losing about $1 billion a year for Nokia […]
Google Maps for iPhone & Android Include “Enhanced Navigation”
I noticed the fact that the new apps included “Enhanced navigation” out of the corner of my eye but it became apparent this morning as I started playing with the new iPhone App exactly what it meant. On the Lat-Long Blog Google noted: Enhanced navigation: In addition to current traffic conditions, we’ve added two new features […]
Google Maps 1.1 for iPhone Not Well Received
Early last month, Google released a 1.1 upgrade to their iPhone mapping product that was faster, integrated Google contacts and included more countries. Apparently though the upgrade has not gone over well with users as the bad reviews seem to be flowing into the App store at a significant clip. Since its release 5 weeks […]