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Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is currently the most popular Android-powered tablet, but it doesn’t feature a GPS chip. Given how important location-based services have become, that’s a bit of a drawback for many developers and quite a few apps that want to access location features on Ama...
Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Geoloqi, the Portland, Ore.-based location platform, today announced that it is partnering with the popular mobile app development platform Appcelerator. Thanks to this partnership, Geoloqi is now available to the 1.6 million iOS and Android developers who have signed up for Appcelerator’s ...
Google Ventures-Backed Location-Sharing Service EchoEcho Raises $750k From Bullpen, PROfounders
EchoEcho is one of the more useful location-based applications on the market today. Instead of focusing on check-ins and deals, the application simply makes it easy for you to find out where your friends are and lets you set up a meeting with them. Last September, EchoEcho raised $750,000 from Go...
Mobile Security - Simple Username and Password Isn't Good Enough
More mobility requires more security options that just a username and password There’s plenty of news out there about the way mobile technology, BYOD programs, and other facets of the consumerization of IT trend are reshaping the workplace and the IT department. The traditional daily routin...
OpenStreetMap gets acknowledged in iPhoto credits
After iPhoto landed on iOS in March, people quickly discovered the app used OpenStreetMap data for the map tiles. At the time, there was no attribution given to OSM but that has changed in the latest version of iPhoto, which was released earlier this week. OpenStreetMap pointed out in a tweet tha...
What The Simpsons' Springfield Looks Like in Real Life [TV]
At last, Matt Groening has revealed where The Simpsons is actually located: the actual Springfield is next to Eugene, Oregon, the state where Groening grew up. We went through the entire city to find what the most important locations look in real life. More »
Girls Around Me has Foursquare API revoked, pulls out of App Store
Foursquare has revoked API access to the iOS app Girls Around Me, forcing them to take their tracking app down from the Apple App Store. This follows a scathing editorial on Cult of Mac in which the privacy implications of the app were called into question. The Russian developer, i-Free, has sin...
View Reminders By Date in Calendar View [iOS Tips]
Reminders is a pretty slick to-do app, made by Apple for OS 5, that uses location and calendar data to help us remember the milk, our laundry, and any other important task we might need reminding for. Here’s a tip for the Reminders app that may be old news to some of you, but we’re b...
This App Lets You Chat With Nearby UsersAnd Call Them On The Phone
Palo Alto-based Who’s Near Me Live, abbreviated as WNM Live, is a two-year-old company that’s found moderate success by launching first on Windows Mobile and Windows Phone, before porting its mobile app to the iPhone, where it arrives today with a more limited feature set. The service...
Snap A Photo Of A House And This App Will Tell You What It's Worth And What's Inside
Be a nosey neighbor with this real estate stalking app You know the drill. You take a walk around a nearby neighborhood at dusk, when it’s dark enough that people have switched their lights on, but not late enough that they have closed their drapes. You glance through the windows and get a ...
