Software

GetGlue iPhone App Works Like Foursquare, Only With Books, Films And Music

Instead of checking into pub after bar after pub, show your friends you’re not just a boozehound on Foursquare, but quite the literary creature on GetGlue’s free iPhone app, which lets you “check-in” to whatever media you’re consuming.


June 23, 2010
Software

Apple Now Storing And Sharing Your Location With Others

Perhaps you should have read this new paragraph in the software licence before installing iOS 4. You know, the one that now says that Apple has the right to “collect, use, and share precise [your gadget's]real-time geographic location”:


June 15, 2010
Online

Twitter Places Shows Where That Tweet Came From

Twitter’s adding a feature called Places which allows you to associate tweets with locations. Along with this feature, the company is also rolling out the corresponding API as well as Gowalla and Foursquare integration. [Twitter]


May 12, 2010
Software

Google Maps For Android Gets New Features

Google Maps for Android just introduced new features for biking directions, navigation shortcuts and location sharing. Now we can all enjoy National Bike Month the way Google wants us to. The update is available in Android Market now. [Google Mobile]


December 3, 2009

Sprint To Humans: We Know Where You Are, And So Do The Police

In the last year alone, Sprint turned over users’ GPS data to authorities 8 million times. While that number is misleadingly high—this could translate to under a thousand individual users—it’s still terrifying. But wait, it gets even better!


December 2, 2009
Software

Augmented Reality Twitter App Shows You Exactly Where Your Friends Are Tweeting

Augmented reality Twitter isn’t new to the App Store, but their official geolocation service is just a few weeks old. How? Hacks! Twitter 360 is the first augmented reality Twitter app to support the official API, and it looks fanastic.


July 1, 2009
Computing

Dell Mini 10 Gets Full Geolocation, Navigation Options

Starting next week, Dell Mini 10 netbooks will land a new geolocation option—and not just to foil bad guys. It’s a proper A-GPS+Wi-Fi system, complete with CoPilot navigation software and network location services from SkyHook.