Google Latitude is basically Plazes/Brightkite in lame. Sadly, there is no connection to outside services, i.e. FireEagle. There is a blog post, though.
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Google Latitude is basically Plazes/Brightkite in lame. Sadly, there is no connection to outside services, i.e. FireEagle. There is a blog post, though.
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What a nice surprise: the recent issue of Wired Magazine covers some nice tools for the iPhone and Android-phones and has an interesting article about living with location-based services.
]]>All of those try to know - to various degrees of success - the location of the current user based on rather large databases that map IPs to locations. Those locations are either actual town-level locations or just return the country/country code.
]]>The whole thing is called Geode and will be included in future Firefox betas or can be installed into older Firefoxes directly from here. There is a blog entry and, of course, a TechCrunch article. Pownce and Fire Eagle have already integrated the specification into their services - and first tries show that it works amazingly accurate.
]]>Unfortunately, there's not much you can do with the G.P.S. According to Apple, the iPhone's G.P.S. antenna is much too small to emulate the turn-by-turn navigation of a G.P.S. unit for a vehicle, for example.
- For iPhone, the 'New' Is Relative
That in itself makes the GPS a fun addition but nothing new for areas that were already covered by the XPS data before.
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This rugged, all-weather collar has an integrated GPS transmitter and antenna that work with the Astro® 220 to ensure that your dog will never be lost again. Plus, it's specially weighted so the antenna will always point to the sky for optimal signal.
Will be pretty useless for Joe Dog-owner, but it might be fun. [via]
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