In mid-September, Foursquare started rolling version 2.0 of its location software for iPhone. The update ushered in smarter Read More
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Google Latitude launches dedicated website
Google launched Wednesday a new way for users in love with location to share their whereabouts with friends: Read More
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Who owns location: Facebook or Google?
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) handed Facebook a powerful weapon in the location wars Wednesday: a Read More
Foursquare, though happy to hit 200 million check-ins, is not having the best week. The social location site Read More
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Answers.com launches blufr, social trivia
Q&A Web site Answers.com launched Tuesday an iPhone app called blufr, a social trivia game powered by information Read More
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Geomium launches London location startup
[Article updated to reflect regional availability of application.] The (very) short list: Booyah, Facebook Places, Foursquare, Google Latitutude, Read More
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The erosion of online anonymity
One of the most important principles of individual privacy is the ability to act anonymously. When people are Read More
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Two in five mobile users access location apps
When Ron Bowes of Skull Security created a publicly available 2.8GB torrent download last week including 100 million Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 07/02/10
Last week’s roundup was clearly dominated by one sector growing by leaps and bounds: social gaming. The news Read More
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Facebook talks location features, statistics
One of the most anticipated Facebook features – a location-based service – remains on track to be launched Read More
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Twitter Places enhances location services
Three months after turning on location-aware tweeting site-wide (and over half a year since that same service launched Read More
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Gowalla 2.0 for webOS follows Android launch
It’s the week of Gowalla updates: in the past four days, Gowalla 2.0 has launched both for Android Read More
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Booyah hits 2M users with no signs of slowing
Booyah, which just launched version 3.1 of its location-based app MyTown, has officially blasted past two million users. Read More
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Facebook fuels hype over location features
Facebook on Friday announced a set of changes to its privacy policy suggesting new location features, new ways Read More
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Twitter turns on location-aware tweeting
Users logging into Twitter today are seeing little notices before sending out a tweet, asking whether the user Read More