Forget Facebook's status updates, and Twitter's social sharing in iOS: An Apple patent application hints at a future where a character-measuring iPhone app can tell you if you're near your pals--or even a potential soulmate. READ»
What do you get when you mash up Marxist art from the 1960s with check-in apps from the 2010s? If your answer isn't "Who the $*#& cares?" you may enjoy an iPhone app called "Situationist," which gives a location-based techno-twist to ...READ»
Watch out, Foursquare--you may just be the leading location-based "check-in" game out there, but there's a big player eyeing your turf: Facebook. Zuck's about to step to you. And he's got a posse. Rumors are swirling that Facebook is ...READ»
As location-based apps proliferate, so does the need for umbrella services that can aggregate data from multiple networks. Tweetsii, which is being introduced at SXSW, is one such service that looks promising. The app exploits ...READ»
Conscious of the advancing, diversifying competition to its location-based gaming/info services, Foursquare is not sitting on its laurels: It's announcing new partnerships with some big-name media companies to add content to its ...READ»
Yesterday Google [GOOG] announced a nifty mapping feature called Latitude, soon to be available for every major mobile phone platform that supports Google Maps. Latitude keeps track of your friends like so many tagged woodland ...READ»
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