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, Google Places for
and has recently introduced a new “connection bar” for its Gmail web app.
Google Latitude gets the new check-in feature, while Google Places now comes in 30 languages.
Google had released the native app for Google Latitude at the end of last year. It allows you to see where your friends are, share your location with your friends and also to communicate with them by phone, text message, or email.
Now, you can also (more…)

Google has finally released a native iPhone app for Google Latitude.
feature in Google Maps back in February 2009 that allowed users to share their location with their friends and family. Google had released
and not a native iPhone app. At that time, Google had highlighted that they had to release the feature as a web app due to limitations imposed by Apple on third party
.
It is good to see that Google and Apple have settled their differences (more…)

“Geographic location data is sent from a first device to a second device with a modified message to signal the presence of geographic location data associated with the message. The message can include (or attach) the geographic location data or file, or the message can include a link to a network-based resource which the second device can use to obtain the geographic location data. In some implementations, when a user of the first device views a location (more…)

about Google's response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the episode. Google claims that their applications for the iPhone offers
. For instance, the Google Voice app duplicates the core dialer functionality of the iPhone and Apple , Google claims, does not want a potential replacement for their native functionalities.
This conversation is supposed to have taken place betweenAlan Eustace, Google's Senior Vice President (more…)

Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in
the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as
well), we’re not able to provide continuous background location updates
in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, Blackberry,
Symbian and Window Mobile. Nevertheless, your location is
updated every time you fire up the app and then continuously updated
while the app is running in the foreground. (more…)