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Warning issued about using mobile phones as hiking route planning

09/10/201509/10/2015 Julie Campbell

Hikers at the Lake District National Park in the UK are being warned that smartphones aren’t enough. Following a notable increase in emergency rescue calls, the Coniston Mountain Rescue Team at the Lake District National Park in the U.K. is now advising hikers not to rely on their mobile phones to plan their hiking routes. The team has found themselves heading out to respond to 44 different rescue calls already, this year. After it seems to have become common practice for hikers to use mobile phones to plan their routes,…

Google Maps for Android primed for m-commerce

12/05/201112/05/2011 John Montgallo

Google has just announced its latest move with its Maps for Android app, which has been angled toward e-commerce, but that now includes a new feature that allows smartphones and tablets based on Android to view their own position and use that to find what stores are nearby in some airports, malls, and even retail stores. Google has effectively brought its enormous online mapping software tools – which have already been able to effectively graph both real-world and digital footage – into the world inside so that users of mobile…