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The Reminders application in OS X Mountain Lion has been updated in the second developer preview of the operating system, testers have confirmed.
Last week Apple issued the second test build of OS X 10.8 to developers enrolled with the company’s $99 annual program.
Developers have since spotted and reported s... |
19 March 2012
04:15 GMT |
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When iCloud debuts on October 12, Apple will be launching a new service called Find My Friends, which lets you share your location with people who are important to you, as well as to find them.“Meet up with friends at an outdoor concert. Keep track of the family during a day on the ski slopes. Or see when your ... |
6 October 2011
10:25 GMT |
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With European privacy regulators strong-arming it no doubt, Google has unveiled plans for a new program that would enable WiFi access point owners, i.e. anyone with a router, to opt out of Google's location provider services. Google, as do all other location providers, rely on GPS, cell phone towers and WiFi ro... |
13 September 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Buried among the big number of updates and tweaks Facebook unleashed was the fact that it is dropping the Places feature and instead baking location into everything it does. One thing that is also getting de-emphasized are the checkins which, while they won't be gone altogether from the get go, are on the way ou... |
24 August 2011
10:20 GMT |
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A new version of foursquare is now available for download for Series 40 phones, with features that will provide users with an experience resembling the one available for the owners of smartphones.
The new flavor of the mobile software was packed with additional functionality, bringing it closer to what high-end ... |
15 July 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Google is moving forward with its social, local recommendations service Hotpot and is now integrating it in Google Maps. Whenever you visit Google's online mapping solution, the most recent activity from your friends on Hotpot is displayed on the left side. In theory, this should make it easier to keep up with w... |
12 January 2011
09:12 GMT |
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Foursquare, the location-based service (LBS) everyone loves, or at least, loves to talk about, has just reached the three million users mark, indicating that its growth is still accelerating.The service has been feeling the pressure from the Facebook Places launch, a new Facebook product which also focuses on locatio... |
30 August 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Facebook Places is a great opportunity for the social network to enter a very hot area with the great advantage of having a huge audience. But location services come with their own set of privacy issues, a matter Facebook is more than accustomed to.With just a few months from the latest Facebook privacy fiasco, which... |
19 August 2010
08:19 GMT |
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Facebook has finally unveiled its greatly anticipated geo-location feature. Named Facebook Places, how else, it's pretty standard in terms of features, but also rather complete. Facebook Places enables users to check in at any location and see if any of their friends are there as well. "Starting today, you can i... |
19 August 2010
03:55 GMT |
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Facebook is said to finally be unveiling its location-based service, which has been in development for quite a while now. While the company hasn’t said anything officially, Facebook is holding a press event tomorrow and speculation is that the new location feature will take center stage. The specifics of the ge... |
17 August 2010
03:06 GMT |
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Facebook’s rumored location feature is getting more mysterious by the day as more and more people are wondering what is taking the site so long what it could possibly come up with to be worth the wait. The truth may be that Facebook is just taking its time because it can afford to, at its size it can prob... |
9 July 2010
04:02 GMT |
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There’s increased competition on the location-based services (LBS) market and there’s enough hype to get the big boys involved. Twitter has just launched a new location feature that moves it even closer to a full-blown LBS like Foursquare or Gowalla. And Facebook has been rumored to come up with its own l... |
22 June 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Location-based services are very popular right now, and, even as all the focus is on Foursquare and its competitors like Gowalla, Google’s Latitude service is actually a serious contender. With three million users, it’s the most popular location-based service out there and those users are now getting an i... |
27 May 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Yahoo hasn’t been very active on the acquisition front lately, with a few notable exceptions. In fact, it’s been much more likely to shut down or outsource a service than buy a new one. Yet, one opportunity seemed of particular interest to Yahoo, location-based services. It reportedly tried to buy the hot... |
25 May 2010
06:06 GMT |
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Yahoo! Inc. today announced the purchase of Koprol, a company aimed at enabling users interact in a manner uniquely tailored to mobile phones. The company is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is expected to expand Yahoo’s social, mobile and local offerings by focusing on some of the most popular trends ... |
25 May 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Internet giant Google has just released a new solution for one of its popular services, Google Latitude. On Wednesday, the company announced the launch of Google Latitude API, meant to enable users do more with their Latitude location, by re-using it with any applications or services. Mobile phone users can already ... |
20 May 2010
03:07 GMT |
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Location-based web services are all the rage right now with Foursquare stealing all the thunder. There are plenty of competitors each vying for a place, but one that everyone seems to be forgetting is Google Latitude. The location service has been around for a while now, but it didn’t seem like it proved much o... |
7 May 2010
03:55 GMT |
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Finally revealing how many people use Twitter and how big the third-party ecosystem is is nice, but most people expected Twitter to announce some new technology or feature at its first developer conference, Chirp. And Twitter delivered, with a couple of quite interesting, new features it plans to launch in the future... |
15 April 2010
11:40 GMT |
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It looks like Facebook is looking to do some spring cleaning and is tweaking the language of its privacy policy, yet again. And, yet again, some changes are a bit worrying as Facebooks seems determined to make you forgo any sort of online privacy you'd expect. There are plenty of changes and small tweaks but a ... |
27 March 2010
07:41 GMT |
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If the solid rumor that Facebook is getting into geolocation soon hasn't been enough to make it clear that location is going to be very big very soon, it's now clear that Twitter is just about to enable geolocation features on Twitter.com, perhaps as soon as this week. The features went live for a short per... |
10 March 2010
10:51 GMT |
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Perhaps unsurprising, Facebook is apparently looking to launch its own location features and services to the site and will unveil it at the f8, Facebook's developers conference to be held in late April. Location has been one of the most hyped, new opportunities online and it looks like it is going mainstream, an... |
10 March 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Last week was patent week, apparently, as both Facebook and Google were granted some pretty important patents. Facebook got a patent for its News Feed, certainly a useful one to own as a social network, and Google got a patent for location-based advertising, which could prove a very lucrative market in the coming yea... |
2 March 2010
07:16 GMT |
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There were two major trends on the web last year, the real-time web and location. Google's got one covered, its real-time search is still adding new sources, and now it’s time to tackle the other. The search engine has introduced a new location filter to its search option enabling you to search for results nearb... |
26 February 2010
13:21 GMT |
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With all the hype surrounding social networks, location services, real-time web and everything in between, it's easy to lose perspective and forget about all the real life implications our behavior online has. There's the occasional privacy scandal, both Facebook and Google went through it very recently, b... |
18 February 2010
11:52 GMT |
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In what has become routine at Apple, the company has posted a new App Store tip over at the iPhone Developer Center, telling developers to enhance their apps using Core Location, a framework that enables their apps to retrieve local information about its users. The feature is not aimed at providing the developer with... |
5 February 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Twitter already owns the real-time information game and now it's making a play in another hot web trend, local info. Some users have begun noticing a new feature dubbed Local Trends, which does exactly what you'd expect: it lists the trending topics in your area as opposed to globally. Twitter has confirmed... |
23 January 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Location is all the rage right now, thanks, in no small part, to the growing popularity of web-enabled mobile devices with GPS features. There are a couple of rather popular location services, like Foursquares and Loopt, Google has Latitude, and even Twitter has integrated location into its service. Not wanting to b... |
13 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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If you are the kind of person that travels a lot and you own a camera I am sure that organizing the photos taken on each trip takes a lot of your valuable time. Not to mention that each time you want to share your fabulous experiences you find yourself in the position of thoroughly explaining details that cannot be c... |
12 October 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Google has recently improved its Google Maps service with a more advanced and powerful “Street View” extension for local business listings. People searching for a service or business with Google Maps now have the option “Street View” that enables them to look up a company in real 3D imagery.Af... |
28 August 2009
02:52 GMT |
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A few months ago, a new free feature for mobile and iGoogle users was launched, namely Google Latitude, which offers them the possibility to share their location with their friends. On May 4, 2009, Google announced two new and fun applications for Google Latitude users, Google Public Location Badge, which allows them... |
6 May 2009
08:33 GMT |
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TUAW is reporting that AroundMe (submitted to the App Store two months ago and approved by Apple) has become one of the highly praised and heavily downloaded apps in the venue. The reasons are because the app does what it's advertised to do, showing you nearby restaurants, hotels, theaters, parking lots, hospita... |
29 December 2008
09:55 GMT |
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Given the different time zones on Earth, staying in touch with our friends from many miles away can sometimes be difficult. A solution for this problem would be having more clocks, instead of just one, all of them showing different times in various locations of the world.FoxClocks is a free Firefox extension created ... |
4 October 2008
05:11 GMT |
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There is a point in everyone's life when he feels the need to share his experience with the rest or the world. For some people, this happens at an early age and has all the premises of becoming a profession while others just feel the need to write their memories. Whatever the reason, the process is a lot easier ... |
16 August 2008
08:34 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will provide users with the possibility of customizing their search results depending on three key factors: location, recent searches and web history. The three were also taken into account every time Google returned results to a query but, from now on, people will be given a greater oppo... |
31 July 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Alltel Wireless, one of the top US wireless networks, announced the availability of WHERE, a location-based service application (LBS) developed by uLocate Communications. WHERE is a service that will enable Alltel Wireless customers to access (directly from their handhelds) detailed information for thousands of locat... |
22 August 2007
08:30 GMT |
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