Tagged: Location Based & News
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Apple pays man over iPhone tracking claim News
14.07.2011 Apple has paid US$945 (1m won) after being ordered to do so by a South Korean court for inadvertently tracking the user’s location via his iOS device. -
Big Apple and Bay Area to get next bite of Google Offers News
12.07.2011 Google’s deals service Google Offers, which launched a beta a month ago, will start posting offers to New Yorkers and residents of San Francisco’s Bay Area starting today. Users... -
Android to be as successful on tablet devices – Eric Schmidt News
28.06.2011 Google’s Android operating system, which is now on 300 smartphone devices and is achieving 400,000 activations per day around the world, is going to be just as successful on...Tags: Social Media, Location Based, Tablet Computers, Smartphones, iOS, Android, Mobile, GPS, Analytics, Google, Eric Schmidt -
Nokia appoints new executive vice-president News
22.06.2011 Michael Halbherr is the new executive vice-president who will lead Nokia's revised mission in mobile and location-based services. -
Location app Foursquare grows to 10m users News
21.06.2011 Location-based social networking service Foursquare has reached the 10m-user landmark and has produced an animated info graphic that outlines its trajectory. -
TomTom launches GO LIVE 800 range News
24.05.2011 The TomTom GO LIVE 800 range of sat-nav devices has been released in Ireland, which includes one year of TomTom’s LIVE Services. -
Location-based news is born, says Google News
14.05.2011 Google has kick-started a new era of location-driven news. Last night it launched a new feature in its US English Edition of Google News for iPhone and Android devices called...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Apps -
Apple responds to iPhone location data controversy News
27.04.2011 Apple has responded to the location data issues on its iOS devices, saying the database is a cache of crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers. It will make changes to this... -
Smartphones are indispensible shopping tools, Google says News
27.04.2011 Seventy-four per cent of smartphone users make a purchase as a result of using their phones to help with shopping, says Google in a major survey that shows a major seachange is...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Apple sued over iPhone location data controversy News
26.04.2011 The iPhone location data controversy intensifies, as Apple is sued, Apple CEO Steve Jobs responds to the matter and Google releases its own statement on Android’s location data. -
Facebook ‘check ins’ could cause house insurance to increase News
21.04.2011 The AA has warned people not to post their travel plans on social networking sites as burglars are watching. It also predicts home insurance premiums could rise due to people... -
iPhones and 3G iPads record location data without permission - research News
20.04.2011 iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 have been intentionally storing the user’s locations and time stamps without permission, two researchers have found. -
Microsoft bringing its Street View rival ‘Streetside’ to Europe News
13.04.2011 Microsoft has started taking photos for its rival to Google Street View - called Streetside – across Europe, starting with London. -
Shopping goes mobile News
07.04.2011 Will Facebook’s new location-based Deals service provide bricks and mortar retailers with the footfall they crave? JOHN KENNEDY looks at how m-commerce could help retailers. -
Google +1 – really a crowd-sourced security measure for search? News
31.03.2011 The creation of a +1 button by Google is an evolution of Google’s inexorable drive into social, but is it really about social or more of a way to get people to sort the wheat... -
A funny thing happened to Street View on the way to forum News
30.03.2011 The Google trike knows no bounds and has successfully brought Street View to landmark sites in Italy and France, including UNESCO sites in Rome, Florence and chateaux in France. -
Facebook launches Deals in Ireland – m-commerce goes social News
30.03.2011 Social networking giant Facebook has launched Deals in Ireland. The location-based technology enables smartphone users to redeem discounts on products and services in shops,... -
Google acquires Barrow Street EMEA HQ buildings News
06.03.2011 Google has confirmed that even though it has acquired Dublin’s tallest building – the 15-storey Montevetro building – it has also acquired the buildings that house its EMEA...Categories: Software & Web Development, Search Engines, Search, Mobility, Jobs, Investments, Internet -
IT Sligo first college in Ireland to take on SCVNGR News
04.03.2011 IT Sligo has become the first college in Ireland to implement SCVNGR – the next big thing in location-based gaming and social media for mobile phones. -
Hit The Road creates app for voters to find polling stations News
23.02.2011 Dublin-based start-up Hit The Road has created a public transport journey-planning app just in time for Friday’s General Election, so voters, especially first-timers, can...