The Potential Dark Side Of Too Much Sharing
Location sharing mobile applications have become all the rage, but is there a point where perhaps you can give away too much information via your love of social media? While there has been a lot of...
View ArticleAre You Prepared For The War Over Your Location?
If you aren’t that into the concept of location based services (LBS) by now, get ready to have them in your face on a 24/7 basis as it looks like the big boys are about to enter the game. It has been...
View ArticleTracking Whereabouts with Google Maps
Many applications like Foursquare or Gowalla allow users to track their footsteps online and with friends and now if that’s up your alley, Google may have a new experimental feature for you. This new...
View ArticleNo One Cares About Location-Based Applications
To those of us deeply entrenched in technology, mobile applications and Web 2.0, we simply cannot escape talk of location-based applications such as Foursquare and Gowalla; news of what is going on...
View ArticleFacebook Getting Friendly With Locations On Wednesday?
It is easy to imagine that the offices of Foursquare and Gowalla are in full panic mode right now with the announcement on Monday night that the press was being summoned to Facebook headquarters on...
View ArticleApple & Google Location Tracking: A Breakdown of the Geolocation Crisis
With mounting concerns regarding the privacy of mobile data, two researchers from the United Kingdom stumbled upon a potentially-scary cache of coordinates in the backup archives of their iOS devices...
View ArticleApple Issues a Statement on Location Data
Last week news broke that Apple’s iPhones and 3G iPads were keeping track of users locations, time stamping their travels and keeping all that info stored on the device, backed up in iTunes. The...
View ArticleNew Technology Helps Apple Employees Find You In The Store
Next time you head to your local Apple Store to pick up a purchase, Apple employees may be able to find you a little quicker. Over Black Friday Apple test drove a new feature of the Apple Store app...
View ArticleFacebook Purchases Location-Based Service Gowalla
Facebook has purchased Foursquare-competitor Gowalla. Gowalla originally launched in 2009, went head-to-head with Foursquare, and in the end lost pretty big. The service relaunched as a travel guide...
View ArticleFacebook Rolls Out ‘Find Friends Nearby’ Feature on Web & Mobile Devices
After finally giving us the ability to edit our comments last week, Facebook is now rolling out a new feature that allows us to “Find Friends Nearby.” It’s coming to the Facebook website and to its...
View ArticleGoogle Now Will Now Track How Far You’ve Been Walking and Cycling
Google has quietly issued an update to Google Now that introduces a handy new feature to track how far you’ve been walking and cycling. It presents your results for the past month, and lets you...
View ArticleNokia HERE: Cloud-Based, Community Driven Maps Across All Platforms
Digital maps are an essential part of everyday life. Chances are you’ve used one of the many popular services as reference in the last 24 or so hours — for directions, finding a restaurant, transit....
View ArticleApple Refutes iOS Tracking Claims From Chinese Media
Apple has refuted claims that the iPhone is a national security threat by publishing a new page that explains how the Cupertino company addresses “Your Location Privacy” in iOS. It comes days after...
View ArticleGlympse Keyboard for Android Lets You Share Your Location Inside Other Apps
Glympse has long allowed users to share their location with friends on Android, but traditionally you’ve had to open up the dedicated Glympse app to do so. That’s no longer the case thanks to the...
View ArticleGoogle promises fix for worldwide Nexus 6 LTE outage
See full gallery on TechnoBuffalo.com Google has promised to rollout a fix for a mysterious issue that has left Nexus 6 owners worldwide without LTE connectivity. In the U.S., only those connected to...
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