Apple reportedly has a secret team specializing in satellite technology. It’s apparently tasked with finding ways to beam data such as Internet connectivity directly to devices.
Rebuilt from the ground up, the upcoming Apple Maps refresh will finally incorporate Google Street View-like street-level imagery gathered by Apple’s fleet of specialized vehicles.
Satellite footage by Planet Labs has been condensed into an awesome time-lapse clip chronicling nearly two years of work on Apple Park’s main building in just 18 seconds.
Until now, no one knew Apple back in 20151 acquired a startup specializing in “near-space technology” that developed smart balloon platform for high-quality aerial imaging.
Apple is reportedly funding Boeing’s upcoming low-Earth orbit satellite system that should bring very high data-rate broadband Internet coverage throughout the United States and internationally.
No, Apple isn’t building Skynet, but Bloomberg is reporting that Tim Cook & Co. hired two Google experts who specialize in satellites for collecting images.
Apple Maps has gained satellite imagery (though not necessarily up to date) for Apple’s upcoming 175-acre campus, called Apple Park and opening next month. The massive headquarters, currently under construction in Cupertino, now show 3D Flyover imagery along with descriptions and geolocation tags in Apple Maps, 9to5Mac discovered.
Revered software engineer Sinisa Durekovic has joined Apple in an unspecified role in October, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources.
Durekovic was charged with managing the development of advanced satellite navigation systems used by luxury carmakers such as BMW AG, Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen AG’s Audi, suggesting another possible mapping push for the Cupertino giant.
The United Arab Emirates-headquartered Thuraya has been in the mobile satellite services business literally as long as I can recall seeing their ads on MTV as a teenager. Thuraya operates in 140+ countries across Europe, the Middle East, North, Central and East Africa, Asia and Australia, covering two-thirds of the globe. Last summer, the company also started providing roaming services in the United States through its partnership with T-Mobile USA.
Because Thuraya has been selling pricey satellite phones and access to its global communications network for ages, their very first iPhone accessory launch is totally unexpected, but welcomed. The aptly named SatSleeve enables global satellite coverage for your iPhone by tapping an accompanying app to talk to the sleeve and route your text messages and phone calls through Thuraya’s network of satellites. Wait, there’s more to this special case than meets the eye…
