GPS from Tom Tom on iPhone? Yes or no
So a few days ago a Tom Tom spokesman let his mouth get away from him saying that Tom Tom has a navigation system that runs on the new 3G iPhone already. This set up a series of ripples in the GPS fanboy community (yes, there is one). Tom Tom’s GPS software is very popular and the idea of having it in their pockets makes them go a little crazy.
But then rumors started going around that there wasn’t any development for the iPhone from Tom Tom. Old man Joel at BBG has it on good authority that there’s nothing in the works and that it was just a marketing ploy by a Tom Tom exec. That was yesterday.
Today, Friday the 13th, brings word from Mac News Network that there is development for the iPhone from Tom Tom. They talked to a French rep who surrendered that Tom Tom’s developers had indeed experimented with Navigator on the iPhone and that it worked fairly well.
Now that doesn’t mean that there’s an official product in the works. Many development teams experiment to see what’s possible, but that doesn’t mean they always follow through.
So in the end, the question is, “Will there be Tom Tom software for iPhone?” And the answer is, “Not yes, but not no. Let’s get a beer, it’s Friday.”
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Google Maps was banned for military pictures
Pentagon bans Google from taking images and video of military installations. Services like Google Earth are viewed by many to be nothing more than an interesting curiosity. However, for the U.S. military and other world governments the satellite images and other footage Google offers on its
Earth service represents a big security risk. BBC News reports that the Pentagon has banned Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of U.S. military bases. The ban comes after detailed footage from inside and outside of the U.S. military base at Fort Sam Houston in Texas turned on up Google Earth’s Street View service. Street View is a service of Google Earth that allows users of the application to travel down streets from the perspective of a car driver.
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