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Apple Maps in iOS 9 adds public transit, local business search

Jun 08, 2015 11:44 am | Macworld.com
by Marco Tabini

Apple on Monday announced an update to Maps that include access to public transit directions, enhanced location detail, and the ability to discover nearby business and other points of interest.

Speaking from the stage at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference, senior vice-president Craig Federighi mentioned that Maps will soon provide dedicated maps and directions for public transit systems in a number of cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Paris, and over 300 locations in China. The company has gone as far as incorporating detailed surveys of individual subway stations into its data--a feature that makes the directions provided by Maps more accurate and timely.

Maps is also getting more local with the ability to search for businesses near a specific location. Search results include a wealth of details, including photos, directions, and even an icon indicating whether a particular store supports Apple Pay.

The new Maps updates will find their way into iOS 9 and OSX 10.11, which the company plans to release later this year.

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Apple Maps in iOS 9 adds public transit, local business search Apple on Monday announced an update to Maps that include access to public transit directions, enhanced location detail, and the ability to discover nearby business and other points of interest.

The Public Relations Manager of Huawei Technologies, Mr Kevin Li, said on Sunday that the efforts of Huawei to encourage localisation of technology in Nigeria was beginning to pay off.

Disclosing this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Li said that the policy which Huawei had been implementing alongside business partners, had been a success.

He said localisation was one important strategy of Huawei which it was glad to execute through more cooperation with Nigerian business partners.

He also said that the company was involved in continuous local recruitment.

He said technology transfer was another Huawei's core strategy which compelled its Nigerian workers to share the same platform with their counterparts in 170 countries to work, learn and improve themselves.

"Localisation of technology has been an integral part of Huawei's policy in Nigeria hence excellent staff members had been chosen to participate in various training programmes in Huawei headquarters in China."

According to Li, Huawei also undertakes the training of personnel other than its own as it considers such contribution to be vital to the country's overall development.

We have introduced Information and communication Scholarship in Africa University of Science and Technology in Abuja besides the Huawei Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) scholarship in University of Lagos.

We also have the 1,000 girls training programme with Ministry of Communication Technology to encourage female participation in ICT industry.

He said that the girls had since been absorbed into the system and were already making significant contributions in the ICT industry in the country.

He said Huawei had plans to be more proactive in 2015 and would expand its co-operation with Nigerian business partners to achieve its objectives.