Google has teamed up with online train ticketing website thetrainline.com, with the partnership integrating national rail travel information directly within Google Maps.
This seems to be a cunningly clever app to make sure that you get to work on time by waking you up earlier if there are delays on your route.
If your budget won’t stretch to their snazzy, high-end bike computers like the Garmin Edge 800, the company are offering a new cut-down GPS unit, the Garmin Edge 200.
The number of stinky vehicles burning up non-renewable resurces on the roads across the world has now passed the 1 billion-unit mark, according to research from WardsAuto.
There’s thousands of excellent travel apps available for Android-toting folks on the move, and we’ve tried out an awful lot of them. Here’s five of our current favourites:
In Britain, travelling by coach is usually a relentlessly grim experience, with the majority of the trip spent staring out at the never ending grey concrete and traffic queues, while fast food wrappers and discarded cans circulate around your feet.
Honoured today with a Google doodle is Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833), a Cornish inventor and mining engineer who created the first high pressure steam engine.
While us Brits were throwing disco moves to the Detroit Spinners “Working My Way Back to You” at number 1 in the poptastic charts, NASA were busy blasting the first space shuttle into the heavens on April 12, 1981.
Keen to get it all working in time for the 2012 Olympics, TfL have invited telecoms companies to tender for wi-fi provision at up to 120 stations across the network by June 2012.
Swish Swedish car maker SAAB has announced that it will be embracing the Android OS for its forthcoming in-car communication and infotainment system.
Seen rolling along the streets of Mountain View, California is this little stick robot that is filmed popping into a cafe to buy a snack.
It’s been pedalling very slowly towards us – Nokia’s bike-powered mobile phone charger was in fact supposed to have wobbled our way by the end of 2010 – but it’s finally made the UK and is now available in Nokia’s store for £25.
What do you get when you cross one of our fave Android transport apps – Cycle Hire Widget – with Sony Ericsson’s intriguing second screen gadget, the LiveView?
By the looks of it, a nifty and fast way to find and park bikes on the London Barclays Cycle Hire scheme. Huzzah!
There’s no longer the need for travelling types to unfurl flapping maps and do battle with baffling transport maps thanks to a cavalcade of excellent transport apps available on the iPhone.
If you’re wandering over the wiley, windy moors or just stuck in a pub in an unfamiliar part of town, there’s an app to get you home. Here’s four of the best:
This stunning photo shows astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson gazing out over the Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).
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