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Weekly news roundup: Windows Phone 7 Series guide, Android: reasons to switch and more

Want to know what's been hot in the world of technology and gadgets this week?

It's been pretty phone heavy in the roundup this week as we've covered a whole host of news relating to the Android and upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series platform.

To start us...

Texas cars disabled by hacker

A whole pile of cars has been remotely disabled in Austin, Texas, by a mischievous hacker who accessed a vehicle-immobilisation system normally used to chase after people who are late with their lay-away payments.

The culprit has been fingered as 20-year-old Omar...

Google Maps updated on Android

Google has updated the Android Maps application with a few extra features. There's a completely redesigned search results page, a Latitude widget, and the ability to put a map of your current location as your device's wallpaper.

Version 4.1's search interface...

GM adding augmented reality to cars

US car manufacturer General Motors is working on adding augmented reality systems to car windscreens, helping drivers pay attention to particular objects on the road.

The "enhanced vision system", as it's called, is based on a combination of sensors both inside...

EA Need for Speed MMO driving your way

EA has begun testing, within closed beta, a Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) version of its racing game series, Need for Speed.

Called Need for Speed World, the new game, due out on the PC in the summer, hopes to emulate popular online games like World of Warcraft,...

Tweetsii launched by GyPSii

GyPSii has announced the launch of Tweetsii - an iPhone app that lets you see who's tweeting nearby, and also access information on what there is to see and do in any particular area.

Tweetsii hooks into other location-based networks like Foursquare and Gowalla,...

Google Mobile Product Search gets stock dots

Google has announced a small but powerful update to its mobile product search engine - blue dots which indicate stock status in stores near you. However, it's limited to certain - US-only - retailers, including Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, or West Elm.

The...

Street View rolls out nationwide

Google's Street View service has been available in 25 cities in Britain for some time, but the company is about to announce a major expansion - to the entirety of the UK - more than 238,000 miles of road.

In 2006, the Ordnance Survey concluded that the UK has...

New York gets 8-bit mapping project

A coder called Bret Camper has built an 8-bit map of New York City and put it online for people to explore in a Google Maps-esque style. He says that it's an attempt to "make the city feel foreign yet familiar".

It's been created using a custom rendering engine...

Google Maps gets cycle paths

Cycling's good for you - it's healthy, relatively quick, and you can get to places that greenhouse gas-belching automobiles can't. As a result, Google has decided that its Maps product should offer directions for cyclists, as well as driving, walking and public transport.

During...

Google to integrate Buzz and Latitude?

Back in 2007, Google launched Latitude - a GPS-based system which keeps track of your location and allows friends that you'd carefully selected to see where you are. More recently, when Google launched Buzz, it also launched a mobile application which offers almost the...

Win Apple's latest creation in our iPad competition

First off congratulations to Perry Sheldrick who won a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium for his comment during February.

Good news. In the lead up to the much-anticipated release of the Apple iPad at the end of April in the UK we at Pocket-lint have...

Daily news roundup: Skinput controller, Android gesture tech and more

Want to know what's been hot in the world of technology and gadgets today?

Everyday Pocket-lint thumbs through all the stories from the last 24 hours and sorts the ten most-read into one handy place, so you can get an at-a-glance look at what's what.

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Nokia Terminal Mode wants cars to embrace phones

Mobile phone makers have only just managed to come to some kind of agreement over standardising the power socket, but that isn't stopping Nokia lobbying for a unified way of connecting your phone to your car. 

Talking at the Geneva Motor Show, Nokia believes it...

CoPilot updates iPhone app

CoPilot has announced an updated version of its iPhone application, which features a few improvements to the satnav experience. There's local search, updating of your Facebook, and adjustable music volume settings.

The local search uses your GPS location to find...

TomTom: Jury still out on iPad Satnav version, keeping quiet on Android

TomTom has told Pocket-lint that it hasn't ruled out developing a dedicated GPS app for Apple's iPad, but that we shouldn't hold our breath in the near future.

"We don't have a plan to release an iPad dedicated version at the moment," Rory Jones, the company's...

TomTom HDTraffic drives onto iPhone app

TomTom has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it has submitted a new version of its iPhone GPS app, version 1.3, to Apple for approval.

The new App, which should be available to download in a couple of weeks time will, says the company, come with a number of new features...

Mio Moov V780 takes on the iPad

Mio, the satnav company that owns Navman in the UK, has announced it's taking on the Apple iPad with a new tablet device launching at this year's CeBIT in Germany.

The new model, which looks to follow on from the company's Spirit TV range but going under the new...

EU sets 6 month limit on Street View

Every 12 months, Google currently has to drive around all the places that it's snapped on Street View and re-take the photos, but under new instructions from the EU, that could be cut down to half as much - just 6 months.

The reason is data privacy. The EU's Article...

Google Earth comes to Android

Google's starting to funnel some serious cash into development of apps for its Android platform, now that it's taking off. Once upon a time, we'd get announcements of iPhone apps from the company, but that's reducing in frequency now that the two parties are in heavy...

X-Plore.XGX GPS gloves to help skiers find their way

Skiers looking to find there way down the mountain are being offered help via a new pair of gloves that just so happen to feature a built-in GPS receiver.

The X-Plore.XGX is the world’s first glove with full GPS functionality, claim its makers, and promises...

Pocket-lint is hiring

Do you have what it takes? Are you excited about technology? Then we want to hear from you. We are looking for a news editor for Pocket-lint to guide the news team to success.

Working from home rather than having to slug it into the office every day, we are looking...

TomTom iPhone car kit gets ProClip option

TomTom is offering a new option with its iPhone car kit with the availability of a ProClip mount just announced.

The original TomTom car kit for iPhone has a windscreen mount, the new car kit for iPhone, however, screws onto a vehicle-specific ProClip mount that...

Tech deals: TomTom LIVE service free for 1 year

TomTom makes some cracking products and a very polished LIVE service to go with them, however the only trouble is that this requires you having to fork out a monthly fee.

Starting from 18 February and continuing until the Easter weekend this will no longer be...

Qualcomm promises 3G cars from Audi

Chip-maker Qualcomm has revealed that it'll soon be outfitting Audi cars with 3G. The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and will introduce a new mobile media interface to cars, along with a navigation system based on Google Earth.

It'll...