Drive+ Beta for Windows Phone 8 gets updated

Nokia’s Drive+, Nokia’s exclusive offline SatNav navigation app on Windows Phone has had its Beta version updated.

The new update enables more efficient battery use when the app runs in the background plus a few other improvements. The updated app will turn off the GPS receiver when you send it to background to save battery (except in the cases when you are in a guidance mode, of course).

Nokia is also improving its free navigation offering by adding a ‘Back to my position’ function while exploring the map, and a distance measurement from your current position to any place you happen to be looking at.

You can check out Drive+ Beta over here.

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WINDOWS 8 BUILD 8042 COMPILED

The latest internal build of Windows 8 is 8042.0.110707-1940, which is a Milestone 3 build, and was compiled on July 7^th. According to Winbeta.org, applications and features that were working in the past were causing problems with the UI; however, they simply have yet to be updated with the rewritten code (as opposed to losing functionality altogether.) Bugs are being fixed however, and it appears that Microsoft is working on having something ready for its BUILD Developer conference in September. Unfortunately, nothing more has been heard to reinforce the validity of rumors surrounding a  Community Technical Preview of Windows 8 being available for the Worldwide Partner Conference this year.
Microsoft has been also busy improving and developing its Live services (recently giving Skydrive, an online storage tool, a makeover) and integrating them with Windows 8. However, Windows Live is not yet synchronized with Windows 8 in terms of development. Live is in a Milestone 2 coding phase, with Milestone 1 bits currently being deployed into Windows 8. Next week, we can count on hearing more about Windows 8’s cloud capabilities during the Worldwide Partner Conference next week and, beyond that, the BUILD conference.