Digital Earth Blog » Google Latitude http://www.digitalearthblog.com Keeping up with the various digital globe products from companies such as Google, Microsoft and more Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:21:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Google releases “Latitude” http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200902/google-releases-latitude/ http://www.digitalearthblog.com/200902/google-releases-latitude/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:23:40 +0000 mickey http://www.digitalearthblog.com/?p=808 Google has just released a new mobile phone app called “Latitude” that helps you track down friends and family in real-time. The app is currently available for Blackberry, S60 (Nokia N95, etc) and Windows Mobile.  An Android app will be available in the next few days and it’ll be coming to the iPhone “very soon”. [...]

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]]> Google has just released a new mobile phone app called “Latitude” that helps you track down friends and family in real-time.

The app is currently available for Blackberry, S60 (Nokia N95, etc) and Windows Mobile.  An Android app will be available in the next few days and it’ll be coming to the iPhone “very soon”.

The system feels a bit similar to Yahoo’s new Fire Eagle, but with one big difference: Fire Eagle is a way to push your location publicly, while this service is for friends only.

Here is a brief video that shows how the service works:

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