Google Maps makes its triumphant return to iOS

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

iPhone and iPad users can now exhale a collective breath of relief as the much awaited Google Maps app is now available for iOS and it features turn-by-turn directions for free. And yes, Street View is back! Apple was criticised for discontinuing the earlier version of Google Maps (made by Apple) in iOS 6 while it pushed its own Maps application. The new Google Maps is 100% a Google designed app. The 6.7 MB app is available now and each and every iOS user should go download it. Hit jump for more details.

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Tomorrow is iPad mini day

Apple's much anticipated iPad mini finally makes it to stores tomorrow. The WiFi variant of the 7.9-inch tablet was open for preorders last week but all of those have been spoken for and are sold out. The only way to get a new iPad mini is by going to an Apple Retail Store and those will open at 8 a.m. Have your heart set on the 4G LTE+WiFi models? Those aren't coming until the end of the month. If the fun-size iPad isn't your cup of tea, the new 4th generation iPad with that blazing new A6X processor hits stores as well.

Apple CEO Tim Cook issues apology for Maps lapse

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's CEO Tim Cook issued an apology to customers who may have experienced issues with the new Maps app that comes standard with iOS 6. In a letter on Apple.com, Cook stated that more than 100 million devices were already using the app, which have searched half a billion locations.

Cook's letter, which can be found in full after the break, promises that Maps will get better and gives users the option to download "map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app."

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Google Street View goes to the Arctic

On August 22nd and 23rd, the Google Street View team is traveling above Canada's Arctic circle to the remote Inuit hamlet of Cambridge Bay. It is Google's first visit to the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Working closely with the community of Cambridge Bay and members of the Nunavut government, the goal of this project is to share with a global online audience the beauty of Canada’s Arctic and the culture of the Inuit people who live there.

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