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Russian app shames parking jerks via social networks

Russian app shames parking jerks via social networks

We’ve all been there: you’re trying to park downtown and some jerk takes up the last two spaces in his Beamer. Apparently the problem is even more pronounced in Russian cities like Moscow, where drivers regularly hop the curb to park on the sidewalk. Local online newspaper The Village has decided to do something about …

CoPilot GPS navigation app goes free for Android

CoPilot GPS navigation app goes free for Android

10 May 2012 by Discuss (7)

If you had your eye out for a quality GPS navigation app for your Android smartphone, a new free app is now available on Google Play. The app is CoPilot GPS, a free version of ALK’s navigation software. ALK also has CoPilot Live for Android offering turn-by-turn navigation and off-line mapping selling for £20.

Runkeeper is Pebble Watch’s first confirmed app

Runkeeper is Pebble Watch’s first confirmed app

If you’ve been keeping an eye on Kickstarter news for the last few weeks, you’ve no doubt heard about the Pebble, the e-paper Bluetooth watch that’s broken the crowdsourcing record with an incredible $7.9 million raised. The designers have said from the beginning that they intend to allow app development for the watch, which is …

ASUS Transformer Prime GPS dongles shipping now

ASUS Transformer Prime GPS dongles shipping now

25 April 2012 by Discuss (2)

Last week ASUS opened up a registration page for owners of the Eee Pad Transformer Pad who were dissatisfied with the all-metal tablet’s GPS reception, promising to send them an external GPS dongle to fix the issue. The first of those dongles (or as ASUS calls them, the “TF201 GPS Extension Kit”) are now reaching …

Telenav nets 30 million navigation subscribers

Telenav nets 30 million navigation subscribers

16 April 2012 by Discuss (0)

If you’re a regular user of Google’s built-in Android navigation, you’re probably not aware of TeleNav, an alternative available on both Android and iOS. But plenty of others are: the company announced today that it had passed 27 million paying subscribers and 3.3 million free users as well. On Android four versions of TeleNav on …

ASUS opens registration for Transformer Prime GPS dongle

ASUS opens registration for Transformer Prime GPS dongle

16 April 2012 by Discuss (5)

If you’re an owner of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime, listen up: you’re automatically eligible for a free GPS dongle to alleviate some less-than-stellar satellite reception. ASUS has just opened their registration page with instructions on the four-step process to claim your free hardware. The GPS dongle (which ASUS is calling the “external GPS extension kit”) fits into …

ASUS Transformer Prime GPS dongle pictured

ASUS Transformer Prime GPS dongle pictured

16 April 2012 by Discuss (3)

We’re going to need need a bigger dock. After months of complaints of low GPS reception on ASUS’ flagship Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, the company has committed to sending out free GPS dongles for affected customers. Land of Droid managed to grab a photo of the purported dongle, and, well… it’s more of an antenna. And …

ASUS confirms GPS dongles for Transformer Prime owners

ASUS confirms GPS dongles for Transformer Prime owners

07 April 2012 by Discuss (4)

Yesterday we posted scattered reports coming from members of ASUS’ official support forums, indicating that the company was planning on releasing free GPS dongles called the “GPS Extension Kit” to combat the tablet’s well-documented lack of signal. Now ASUS itself has told AllThingsD that indeed the program will go forward, with signups for the free extension …

ASUS offers free GPS dongle for Transformer Prime owners

ASUS offers free GPS dongle for Transformer Prime owners

06 April 2012 by Discuss (4)

While a pretty awesome tablet in its own right, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime has been plagued with reception issues since its release, most notably in the WiFi and GPS department. It looks like ASUS has finally found a solution to the GPS issues, at least, which are speculatively due to the tablet’s all-metal chassis. Since …

ASUS Transformer Prime teardown details GPS issue

ASUS Transformer Prime teardown details GPS issue

04 January 2012 by Discuss (27)

ASUS has received their fair share of complaints over the past few weeks. From a lack of product availability, GPS issues, and then the bootloader situation. Today our friends over at Anandtech have torn down the Transformer Prime quad-core tablet and revealed their finding on those GPS issues — but didn’t comment much on the …

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