Archive for February, 2009

Standardizing The Mobile Industry

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Possibly the most interesting news so far to come out of the Mobile World Congress taking place in  Barcelona this week is that there seems to be clear agreement among mobile operators and equipment manufacturers to develop and bring to market a universal mobile phone charger.

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Geo Locate Your Friends With Google Latitude

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

I’ve been taking a look at Google Latitude, a new geo-location tool that looks to be an oh-so-easy way to share your location data in real time with friends and colleagues.

I installed it on my Nokia N95 8GB yesterday in a process that was one of the simplest and quickest installations on this smartphone that I can remember. The installer upgraded the copy of Google Maps that was already installed to the latest version 3; from within Maps I chose to use Latitude.

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