Geolocation

Birdfeed Twitter Client for iPhone Goes 1.2

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 a 1:09 pm

Birdfeed [$2.99 - iTunes link], one of the best looking, slickest working iPhone Twitter clients we've looked at, has just been updated to version 1.2 and is jam-packed with new, well-handled features:

Google Finally Provides Latitude to iPhone Users -- Yeah, it's a WebApp

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 a 11:13 pm

Google Latitude -- the service that either allows you to keep track of your friends or be stalked by stalking stalker types, depending on your point of view -- is finally available for the iPhone and iPod touch. No, it's not built into Google Maps as part of iPhone 3.1 with push update capability. No, it's not built into Google Mobile app. No, it's not even set up as an iPhone app in and of itself.

Google Latitude is a WebApp and it runs in Mobile Safari using the iPhone 3.0 geoLocation feature.

iPhone 3.0: Location Aware Google Search via Safari

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jul 16, 2009 a 2:09 pm

Google Blogs (via Gizmodo) has announced that the long-rumored Geo-Location based services in Mobile Safari are indeed included in iPhone 3.0 and being put to use in "My Location" searches by Google.com on the iPhone.

iPhone 3.0: Safari Geo-Location Not Just for Google's Latitude

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jun 1, 2009 a 8:41 am

Last week we posted on Google's Latitude service coming to the iPhone by way of Safari. Of course, as Computerworld (via MacRumors) points out, for the location-tracking buddy service to work in the browser, the browser must support geo-location, and not just for Google.