Yesterday I wrote a post on how Apple had hit a new low for its botched attempt at making maps. Probably, I couldn’t make it clear enough that the “quality of maps” was a new low for the company and not the fact that Tim Cook had to apologize to his customers. It takes a lot of courage for a company, especially one the size of Apple, to apologize to its customers when things don’t go as planned. However, it takes cojones of Titanium to recommend services offered by your rivals and that...

Cupertino, we have a problem! And this time the problem is much bigger than “Antennagate” from the iPhone 4 or the pricing of the iPhone 4S. We are talking about Apple’s own maps in iOS 6 that, let’s be frank, are something that resembles a toddler’s scribbles at some places or just a blank canvas at others. We have seen the map show Kolkata’s Howrah bridge on land and an intricate mesh of streets on the river. And let’s not get started on the absence of directions, l...

Last September, TomTom had launched its first portable navigation devices, ‘Via series’, in India along with its Landmark Navigation system. It had also promised to keep updating its maps every quarter. Now TomTom has announced the availability of a free map update for all its Via device users in India, which can be downloaded from here. The new maps contain the most up-to-date information which includes details and street coverage of over 5,000 cities.Its Via series of devices come in either 4.3-inch or ...

Nokia today rolled out a new version of its online maps (available at maps.nokia.com) with new features like heat maps, reviews and more. Heat Maps shows places to check out popular places in a city based on the number of restaurants, pubs, tourist spots or shops. (Check out Delhi’s heat map in the pic above.) Currently, Heat Map is enabled in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai in India and many other cities globally. The update also brings 3D maps to Cape Town, Melbourne and Sydney. Another ...

Gameloft has updated its popular Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus game with several new features. The update includes 10 free XP levels and three new multiplayer maps — including an Eastern European bunker, a new battlefield, and a shanty town in South Africa. Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus includes an extensive single player campaign and also allows up to ten players to battle against each other at once in four different multiplayer modes (Battle, Team Battle, Defuse the Comb, and Capture the Flag). The upda...