The crowdsourcing model also in theory helps make it easier for Waze to offer more accurate re-routing info when you inevitably miss that left turn at Albuquerque — something the majority of apps struggle with even Google thanks to the amount of stress these realtime calculations and calibrations and processing put on the app and its infrastructure. So, this, along with enabling drivers to tap into social layers, view realtime fuel prices, nearby gas stations, points of interest and use hands-free navigation all of which adjust to your location as you drive , have enabled Waze to become an attractive alternative to native navigation apps.
After all, we use our maps and navigation apps so frequently — rely on them, really. For Apple in particular, when the company was rumored to be checking out Waze, it was still stinging from the embarrassing premature release of its own native mapping and navigation app, which was so bad it drew a fairly unprecedented public apology from Apple CEO Tim Cook.
With Apple Maps hitting the App Store half-baked, acquiring a popular and arguably far-more-accurate navigation app would have made sense. Hell no. In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme. These are bite-size audio Hebrew classes that we think you'll really enjoy. This month, we're learning phrases on the topic of strength and power. Ready to get tough with us? So now we have a request.
But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. Noam Bardin Photo credit: Courtesy Waze. Waze also offers points for traffic or road hazard reports, which can be used to change the user's avatar, and to increase their status in the community. In Waze Mobile updated the software to display real-time, community-curated points of interest, including local events such as street fairs and protests.
In June Waze launched an update to provide real-time fuel prices. As with all Waze real-time updates, prices are submitted by users, however this feature is not available in all countries. Since November , in monetizing its app, Waze offers resellers and advertisers a web interface to advertise based on locations where a small icon will appear on a given location for an interested Wazer to engage with the ads.
It also offers to TV news stations a web interface to broadcast current traffic reports and alerts directly from the Waze app; the service had been used by 25 TV U. In June , Waze introduced a global localization project that enables future road closures and real-time traffic updates during major events in a given country, for example Tour de France. Some road-safety advocates have voiced concern over the prospect of more drivers using Waze, which they say has the potential to distract them with a flurry of icons and notifications and put them at greater risk of an accident.
In March , a hacking attempt was successfully made by students from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to fake a traffic jam. In December , in a letter sent to Google , Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck complained about the police locator feature, claiming it could be "misused by those with criminal intent to endanger police officers and the community".
This sum has been amassed over the past years and grows by NIS billion each year. This is money that belongs to the public. Competing applications like Finupp only check if you are entitled to a return, while Fibo completes the entire process for you.
For the user, it should take no more than five minutes to fill out a form with personal details and sign an agreement that we will request on their behalf all the relevant forms from the Tax Authority, which is usually the main obstacle.
Over the past two months we have added. So far, Fibo has helped return several dozen millions of shekels, with an average of NIS 5, per client. According to the Tax Authority, Fibo is the organization that applied for the most tax returns in the past year, when the most a single client has received reached NIS 86, It doesn't need to mean anything but it should be easy to pronounce.
Searching on Google is phonetic so it is important that it will be easy to pronounce. In the case of Waze, we of course wanted to register it with the correct spelling - Ways. Homepage News. Waze founder and serial entrepreneur Uri Levine. Photo: Amit Shaal. The 50 Most Promising Israeli Startups - Recently Read.
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