Share interests with people nearby using DOMO
Mar 12th
A Tokyo based company called Tonchidot introduced new free apps for iPhone and Android, the app, which is named DOMO (It means thank you in Japanese) could combine virtual things with the reality so that people could have enhanced feelings about our environment. DOMO lets you get to know and make friend with people nearby [...]
Google Maps 5.2 for Android becomes more sociable
Mar 9th
Not to our surprise, Google Maps becomes more sociable. A few days ago, Google Maps 5.2 for Android became available on Android Market coming with more social network and location based features. It seems Google is adding more social elements to its various products and eventually build a larger and more sociable kingdom. This time, [...]
Google Maps helps drivers avoid traffic jam
Mar 8th
According to Google official blog, a new feature of Google Maps for mobile provides people in US real-time traffic information and helps choose the quickest route so that drivers could avoid annoying traffic jam. Google Maps for mobile beta will display all possible routes and expected driving time, and uses red, green and yellow to [...]
Foursquare teams up with American Express to offer discounts
Mar 5th
The location based service (LBS) Startup Foursquare said that they had teamed up with the American CC (Credit Card) giant American Express to offer its users discounts. It said users who register their American Express cards with Foursquare could win discounts from their merchants, while the merchants could sell more products/services. Foursquare won’t earn any [...]
Ask.com to release location based IM app for iPhone
Mar 4th
Location based service is becoming very hot right now, the latest news is that the world’s largest online question answering website ask.com is about to release a location based IM (Instant Messaging) app for iPhone in a week – Ask Around. This cool yet tiny app use a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi and cell tower [...]
AT&T introduces location based ShopAlerts service
Mar 1st
Cell phone location tracking technology now is not merely for fun or recovering your lost phone, it can also be used for location based advertising or marketing service. US carrier AT&T, together with Placecast- a LBS (location based services) Startup, introduced a new ShopAlerts service last month in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San [...]
Garmin says LightSquared 4G interferes GPS signals
Feb 26th
Generally, cell phone tracking technology relies on GPS to locate a mobile phone accurately in real-time, but you may not know that cell towers could interfere or even kill GPS signals, which may prevent you from tracking the position of an object. Taiwan GPS (Global Positioning System) device maker Garmin said that US LTE carrier [...]
