Google Mobile gets local with iPhone 3.0
Mobile Safari joins Android and BlackBerry browsers in getting location awareness with Google, using GPS or Wi-Fi triangulation to figure out what food, stores, or other goodies are nearby when you search.
As with its counterparts, the location setting sticks with the browser until you hit update, or it happens to notice you’ve moved locales. Google says it doesn’t pull location data unless you allow it at the prompt—two prompts on an iPod touch, actually—and the location feature can be disabled from the Preferences link at the main Google page.
Has location-aware searching ever helped you find a place to go while you’re on the go, or is it just more data collected without reason? Tell us your take on geo-aware Google in the comments. Some people are raising privacy concerns about exactly what kind of data Google stores using this function, and its cause for alarm for some.
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Details of the new iPhone 4.
First iPad jailbreak has officially been released.
Could we see a Verizon iPhone 4G this summer?
The latest iPhone 4.0 beta 2 firmware is available for developers to download.
That iPhone you see on Gizmodo is a fake.
iPhone 4.0 release date is in June 2010.
The iPhone 4.0 beta 1 firmware can be "jailbroken".
Could this be the Verizon iPhone 4G?
Yes, I think Google is collecting entirely too much private information. That’s why I did away with Google desktop, when I realized they were keeping tabs on everything in my computer (to help improve service). Sure, it could help improve service; and easily be misused to be a complete invasion of privacy. Google is like Big Brother, they are keeping tabs on everybody and everything. Now, they also want to know where I am, every minute, every day.
Im from South Africa and it does surprisingly well at finding nearby ATMs.