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iOS News Software

Apple Maps boosts directions, lane guidance in several cities, assorted countries

This could definitely be helpful. Apple on Wednesday boosted its transit directions and lane guidance for its Apple Maps apps. The feature, which originally provided transit directions for Baltimore, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, and around 300 cities in China upon launch added several other […]

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Finance MacBook News

Apple to not provide financial, technical aid to GOP convention in wake of Trump’s comments

Thanks to the keen wit and bubble personality of one Donald Trump, Apple has told GOP leaders that it will not be providing funding or technical support for the party’s 2016 presidential convention, as it has done in years past. The company cited Trump’s controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities. Unlike Facebook, Google and […]

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iOS News OS X Software

Apple Maps adds public transit information for Portland, Oregon

Apple Maps has apparently added the public transit data for Portland, Oregon, right on the heels of Montreal and Austin. The expansion comes a week after Apple Maps added transit directions for Montreal, the second-largest city in Canada. And just over a month ago, Apple also debuted transit in Austin, Tex., just in time for […]

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iOS News Software

Apple reveals data sources for iOS 9’s transit feature

iOS 9 will add transit directions to its Maps service, the new data including schedules for buses, trains, subways, and ferries and will be available in 10 cities at launch later this year. To answer the question as to where the transit data is coming from, Apple has updated its Apple Maps Acknowledgements webpage with […]

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Meetup User Group

PPUG Meets in Philadelphia this Saturday, November 9

Join us for a spectacular autumnal meeting on Saturday, November 9, 2013 at noon. The Philadelphia PowerBook Users Group (PPUG) will hold its pre-holiday festival meeting from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at the beautiful Manayunk Brewing Company. We usually have lunch (and a brew) while we talk mobile computing.  We will need to leave […]