As demonstrated by John Brownlee fromCult of Mac, the free iPhone app enables anyone with a Foursquare account to see the publicly visible Facebook profiles of every female within walking distance. Those profiles are plotted on a Google Map..
Location-based services provider TeleNav has already proved itself a formidable competitor to turn-by-turn direction apps such as Google Maps. But the company isn't resting on its laurels, having just...
GPS has established itself as the navigation technology people turn to when cruising roads and highways, but what about simpler predicaments--like when you've lost a friend inside the mall? Navizon has the answer for that.
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A new handheld GPS device can find your position and update your social networks, even if you're in a region that doesn't have a cellphone signal or Wi-Fi access.
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Foursquare and Yelp can place you on a map and show you the nearest dining, drinking, and entertainment options, but what if you're looking to make some money rather than part with it? We recently lea...
Executives from Apple and Google testified before a Senate subcommittee yesterday (May 10), defending their privacy practices regarding how they track and collect the data of their smartphone users.
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Chances are you've already heard the news about iOS 4-enabled devices secretly recording location data and backing that information up--unencrypted-- each time you sync your iPhone or iPad with ...
One trend emerging from this year's South by Southwest is the clever combination of geolocation and game play. Not games in the Foursquare sense, but patterns that more closely model what gamers do in virtual worlds.
Social networking has many different purposes. It's about getting breaking news in real time, finding jobs (and helping others do the same), sharing photos with long-lost friends, and checking in to r...
Want to know where your friends are eating and spending their hard-earned money? Yelp lets you find and dish the dirt on the best deals and hottest places to eat based on what your friends are saying....