All Posts Tagged With: "location awareness"

Lifestreaming, Location and Video Come Together… Finally

On the iPhone at least. Android and other smartphone platforms have had livestreaming video apps for a while now. But the tide has finally turned in the favor of iPhone users too – as Ustream has finally had its app approved for distribution in iTunes (app store link).
For me, this release culminates three of the [...]

Google Maps Wins!

In my post New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser, I asked the following question around the new browser’s location awareness capability.
So the race is on – which will be the first site to implement this feature? Any bets?
Well today, we have a winner. That was fast.
The blue circle has come to your desktop with [...]

New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser

Location awareness is one of the killer features in the new iPhone. Especially in real estate apps, like Zillow’s app, which recently broke ½ million downloads.
We all know the old axiom with property, right? Location, location, location.
Now that can be translated to your desktop, in addition to your phone. The new version of Firefox (3.5) [...]

Latitude Takes Location Awareness Cross Platform

Google recently flipped the switch on a new service called Latitude; which takes Twitter-like status updates and mashes it up realtime location data. The premise is Latitude will let you share your location and see where your “friends” are anywhere on a map.
It’s pretty easy too. Using your mobile browser (Android, Blackberry, Symbian S60, and [...]