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LBSzone Social Location Report - Apple iOS 5, HTC, Telmap, GPS making news
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Written by SymbianOne
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Friday, 10 June 2011
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The weekly LBSzone social location news round-up billed as "The Social Location Report" was released June 8... enjoy this latest update os mobile, social, location technology
To start, some healthy mobile apps to share with you! Just this week a couple of new mobile apps have come available to iPhone users (see vendors for other platform support). Recall Nokia Sports Tracker? This app out of the Nokia Beta Labs from way back has matured over the years and is now a product of its own, even with iOS support. Sports Tracker (@sportstracking on Twitter) has a fabulous UI, strong social connect, and also has a powerful web client that extends to a number of mobile platforms, most reently iPhone - see more. Another goodie just reveled today, Nokia is celebrating and making available the handy and fun Nike+ GPS tracking app for free in the iTune store - limited time offer. At first impressions this is a sweet app with twitter and facebook connect, idea for any runner for keeping tabs of their workouts. These are but 2 of the many fine health smart apps that are available, definitely a boom area for mobile developers... hint!
A number of noteworthy news items to share with the mobile tech community: Download iOS 5 and iOS 5 SDK Beta Today - iOS 5 and iOS 5 SDK beta are now available to iOS Developer Program members; Could LightSquared Overload or Jam GPS Signals? Indeed the Lightsquared GPS conversation is heating up; New Version of iOS Includes Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Twitter Integration - The iOS 5 beta release includes over 200 new features - huge news! 10 cool things about GeoCommons 2.0 - great things from the popular web2.0 map service.
Some fun items of interest to share from the AnyGeo blog (blog.gisuser.com) including: Highlights of Apple iCloud Services and iCloud Beta for Devs; Mapping the Japan Earthquake with OpenData and TileMill - a great opendata and openTools story; Hexagon 2011 #Hex11 Event Gets Underway in Orlando, FL, some Social Media Tips; GeoCommons 2 Gets a Major Update - 10 Cool Things - a major update to the popular web service. Have a great week to all and to those of you on the road I hope you enjoy @hexagoncon @InsightsCon and @WhereCampDC this week!
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