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Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak says he’s disappointed by Apple’s homegrown Maps app, which replaced Google Maps in iOS 6, reports “Macworld UK” (http://macte.ch/xbltM).

“I tried to navigate somewhere, and I couldn’t get to where I wanted to by voice,” he said. “So, I was a little disappointed, because I love navigation by voice with my Google [Android] phones, actually, since they always get it and are based on a better database.”

Gyft (www.gyft.com), a company “devoted to making gift card management easy,” has announced its complete application integration with Apple’s Passbook on iOS 6. It offers retailers a way to push gift cards to Passbook while giving consumers even more flexibility and convenience for storing, sending, and redeeming their gift cards on Apple’s mobile devices, says Vinny Lingham, CEO of Gyft.

ZeroDesktop (www.zerodesktop.com), a developer of next-generation personal cloud operating system and cloud service brokerage solutions, has announced the expansion of its portfolio of Cloud Services Brokerage APIs [application programming interfaces] with the availability of four new mobile apps for iOS and Android devices to enable development of customer-branded solutions.

Apple has been voted the coolest brand in the UK, beating out Aston Martin, which has taken the top spot in six of the previous seven annual CoolBrands surveys (www.coolbrands.uk.com), reports the “BBC” (http://macte.ch/LU5TR)

YouTube came in second, bumping Aston Martin into third place. Twitter placed fourth, followed by Google and the BBC’s iPlayer. The results are decided by responses from 3,000 consumers and a panel of 39 experts.