“Location is Everywhere, How is it Changing our Lives?”
Curated by
Luigi Cappel
As location-based marketing becomes increasingly popular, the variation of place-centric apps is also increasing, with niche players competing to provide targeted local ads and promotions.
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Customers who check in at one of the drugstore chain's 8,000 locations through Facebook or Foursquare get messages directing them to products, offering coupons, or informing them of donations. 
Marketers are increasingly able to deliver messages, offers, and information to consumers based on their precise location. 
Mobility’s first phase saw fixed-line communications go mobile. The next phase saw the Internet go mobile.
SmartPlanet's Sumi Das looks at new shoes from Aetrex that could help caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia find them if they wander off. Read this blog post by CNET News staff on Cutting Edge.
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Apparently privacy settings are only actually respected when they service the needs and interests of Google. 
A new report from the Federal Trade Commission found that mobile apps for kids get failing grades when it comes to protecting their privacy. In a survey of the thousands of apps available in the Apple App Store and the Android market, the FTC... 
Over the course of the past week, a firestorm has erupted in the world of iOS apps, thanks to the discovery that Path was uploading data from your iPhone's address book without asking for explicit permission. 
Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is looking at how to integrate social TV elements into apps it has built for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iOS and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android mobile devices. 
In addition to the updated “Explore” feature that rolled out to Foursquare’s Android and iPhone applications this week, the social discovery serv (RT @mobileo2o: Foursquare Adds NFC Support To Its Android App | 
Calling it “personalized search for the real world,” Foursquare brought its mobile Explore functionality into its recently redesigned PC website roughly three weeks ago, and added some new search capabilities in the process. 
"A passenger using an NFC-enabled device can be processed faster than any of the current boarding processes available today", says the air transportation technology giant. 
Offers stickers and rewards to GetGlue users. |
A check-in is a simple way to keep tabs on where you’ve been, broadcast to your friends where you are, and discover more about other people in your community. After a couple of check-ins at a business you are given... 
The Growing Problem Of Privacy-Invading Mobile Apps (The Growing Problem Of Privacy-Invading Mobile Apps http://t.co/RHr1jCZq...)... 
Fraudsters could make millions of pounds in seconds by hacking into GPS systems synchronising stock market deals around the world, experts are (GPS jammers could make criminals millions on the stock market |
An interactive ad uses a high-definition camera to scan pedestrians and identify their gender before showing a specific ad.
RT @geekologie: Copies Of Mass Effect 3 Launched Into Near Space For Gamers To Track Via GPS And Collect When Fall http://t.co/etr5DECE... 
Okay, with a show of hands, how many of you have virtually stopped using your regular point and shoot cameras now that you have an iPhone? 
GPS trackers becoming more used to expose cheaters on Valentine's Day (GPS Tracking Devices Bust Cheaters http://t.co/KGFLr8qb...)... 
life after check ins...will we ever get there. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 
Mobile Web Apps vs Native Apps http://t.co/7HYB8df9 #mobilemarketing #mobileweb #apps http://t.co/IBqhojdo http:... Dynamic maps of sea level rise. Does global warming matter to you? 
Want to create an app for Facebook's Open Graph? The mobile space presents a huge opportunity to create cross-platform social games. 
So it’s Saturday night and you’re out with friend. Are they the inconsiderate jerk who can’t stop checking their smartphone? Or is that you? |
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