Apple bought the company C3 Technologies. The future of 3D-maps in iPhone [video]

From the very first iPhone, debuted in 2007, mobile devices, Apple is working on the basis of the electronic atlas Google Maps, enable to recognize and geo positioning with information about the objects or areas. However, mapping technologies do not stand still, and some companies that specialize in creating three-dimensional maps, offer more interesting possibilities. One of these innovators is the company C3 Technologies.

Available C3 Technologies is a unique technology - Automatic generator of three-dimensional maps of the earth's surface, based on aerial photographs. 3D-models of objects are created using aerial photography. Land survey carried out at different angles with the plane flying at an altitude of 600 meters, which is installed on board the 22-megapixel SLR-camera. The technology can detect objects up to 20 cm, and automatically generate the corresponding 3D-models. In addition, a wholly automated process, and as a result, lower cost, the map shows not only the models of buildings in the city center or point of interest, such as in Google Earth or Bing (known as Microsoft Virtual Earth), but the volume and trees and buildings .

Examples of 3D-models made by C3 Technologies:

Back in August, in the press speculation that C3 Technologies swallowed some unknown American corporation. Suspicion that it was Apple, did not find evidence to day. According to the publication 9to5mac citing an anonymous source, the company bought a C3 Technologies does Apple.

"We have learned that the owner of C3 Technologies is Apple. According to our sources, Mattis Astrom, head C3 Technologies, as well as Hell Kederstrand, CFO C3 Technologies and Ludwig Emgard, brand manager for C3 Technologies, currently working in the mobile division of Apple. The majority of the C3 Technologies, is still in Sweden, where the company was located before its absorption. "

At CES 2011 the company C3 Technologies made a splash. Demonstration of technologies the company further in the video:

According to 9to5Mac, the activities of the Swedish unit C3 Technologies with almost absolute certainty can be associated with new developments for Maps in iOS.

3D-model of the Hoover Dam in the U.S., made C3 Technologies:

Here is the Oslo (Norway) on maps C3 Technologies:

You can imagine how will look like in future versions of the card iOS!

10 useful commands for Siri

Probably, Siri - Apple since the beginning of October. Personal Assistant to the beginnings of artificial intelligence regularly encouraged the public funny answers to puzzling questions of users and their "ambitions" .

Our foreign colleagues have shared with all of its collection of lesser-known teams a personal assistant, and among them there are a couple of really interesting.

• [Punctuation / symbols / emoticons]: Siri understands a lot of common symbols, emoticons and punctuation marks (unless, of course, to pronounce them correctly). For example: "open parenthesis", "close square bracket", "face", "new paragraph", "pound sign"
• Play playlist [playlist]: In this version of Siri start playing the playlist, not just one song
• Find all email by [contact name]: Siri will find all the letters of the desired contact
• What's on my calendar for [date]: Do you show all appointments and reminders to a specific date
• Search [Bing / Yahoo]: If you do not like the "good corporation" Google, the query will use the other supported iOS search engine
• Search [Google / Bing / Yahoo] for [Specialized Information] [time] [location]: This search query will bring you the results of the last match of football, the outcome of the next meeting of the "Big Eight" and so on in the same spirit
• Who was in the cast of [title of the film]: Siri can tell who starred in the movie you are interested in
• Delete all alarms: And this is a dangerous team can erase all your alarms. It is useful to leave.
• Message [name of social networking] [status text]: Lovers cover all the events of his life in social networks can provide Siri to update their status is such a team
• Restart: Siri will restart the springboard, but not all of the device entirely. This process takes much less time 

One "Restart" which stands for the solution of problems with the interface in any application. Do you have any chance found a curious team assistant? After all, the gray market has developed new supply long ago. [ tipb ]