New Google software to track mobile users and other wireless devices. The upgrade to Google mobile maps is allowing people to use their mobile devices to share their location with others.
The new featured named ‘Latitude’ expands on a tool allowing mobile phone users to check their location on a Google map.
The software plots a user's location -- marked by a personal picture on Google's map -- by relying on cell phone towers, global positioning systems or a Wi-Fi connection to deduce their location. The system can follow people's travels in the United States and 26 other countries.
Reuters reports Google’s ‘Latitude’ will work on Research In Motion Ltd's Blackberry and devices running on Symbian S60 devices or Microsoft Corp's Windows Mobile and some T-1 Mobile phones running on Google's Android software.
The software will eventually run on Apple's iPhone and iTouch and many Sony Ericsson devices.
Lets see if some of our old mobility clients could use something like this. Make note of devices and OSs it runs on.
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