This little bit of useful technology (for dog-lovers, at least) comes by way of Retrieva, who makes the world’s first tracking and anti-theft dog collar, and ViewRanger, who develops GPS mapping software. It’s a pretty simple partnership that ties the two services together, allowing you to track your Retrieva collar-wearing dog using ViewRanger’s app installed on your Symbian-based smartphone.
Here’s something that was bound to get discovered. Give a guy—any average Joe—a gadget that plays around with words, like a program that reads out stuff you type or another that types out stuff you say, and average Joe is bound to test if it can recognize certain four-letter words we all tend to blurt out every now and then. It appears someone tried it out on Google’s Nexus One, a phone that comes with a speech-to-text feature. The result? The Nexus One will automatically “censor” your #### out.
Nokia might have found a way to keep the iPhone and Droid-crazy mobile market interested in the brand by offering a new version of Ovi Maps. How is that a big deal? Well, they dropped the subscription fees for the service, which means that the Ovi Maps software update now offers turn-by-turn navigation (for pedestrians and drivers) for free. That means you can now explore or get lost without having to think about the cost of a mobile navigation service.
