Tag : GPS

Google Latitude for iPhone now available in App Store

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If you think you can’t get enough stalkers thanks to Twitter, FourSquare and Facebook, here’s yet another service by Google that can let your friends and loved ones keep an eye on you. Google Latitude lets you share you location with your friends and even see where they are. This app has been available for Android since a long time but finally it has been released ( after a peek-a-boo release a few days ago ) for iPhone users.

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PlaceTrack is a silent background updater for Google latitude on jailbreak iPhone

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Google Latitude is a location based service for Smartphones which lets you share your location as well as see where your friends are.Weirdly, Google hasn’t bothered updating their iPhone app with support for Google latitude updating in the background. This issue with no background updating got a lot of hype back in the days as Apple’s iOS didn’t have support for multitasking back then. For all you location addicts, there’s a solution called PlaceTrack available now for jailbroken iPhones. It lets you keep your Google Latitude location up to date without having to open the app. It also lets you stalk your friends on Google Latitude.placetrack1

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Apple might dump Google Maps on the iPhone for their own solution

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image MacRumors have dug up a new job listing for an iPhone Software Engineer to work on the iPhone and iPod Touch Maps team to take the Maps app to the next level. And this is what Apple means by ‘next level’:

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