Something you shouldn’t miss: Google latitude.
Feb 05
Posted by: Jo, under Uncategorized.
Tags: Google latitude
After demonstrating it’s interest in location and mapping, Google launched yesterday Google Latitude. If you never heard of it, you might want to know that it’s a new software that allows cell phone users to share their location with other people. When I first heard it, I was thinking this could actually be the future of networking… People can choose to share exact locations (from restaurants to parks), cities or nothing at all. They can choose who can see where they are and who can’t.
The Latitude mapping software can be used on mobile phones but can also be seen through a gadget loaded onto its iGoogle customized home page… Of course, this is not something unheard of but the technology used by Google is more advanced than its competition. Latitude uses not only GPS location but also proximity to mobile phone towers and wireless networks.
Enough with the good news though, here’s some bad ones. At the moment the software can be used in only 27 countries (and I’m prone to say Romania it’s not one of them), and is available for new generation mobile phones only: color-screen BlackBerry phones, most phones with Windows Mobile 5.0 or later and most Symbian-based devices such as Nokia smartphones.
Truth is I’d like to keep up with the location of my friends, especially because they are always late. 
Hope to see it working here as well. Read the full article here.
Source: CNN.
