Google also has a chance to feature maps and location services on other apps, valuable because Google earns ad dollars from the businesses its maps feature, such as whenever a user taps on a featured phone number.
The article's second killer app is an iPhone location feature that simplifies the current Find My iPhone system that can track down a missing device anywhere in the world.
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Games will likely be designed around the phone's global positioning system and Google Maps "My Location" feature, says Webster.
His writing, done for children's books as well as for a Cosmopolitan feature called "On Location with Jon Whitcomb, " also achieved some notoriety.
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Because Codiqa couldn't add a customized GPS feature to pin the location of the trees, or a photo uploading capability to capture images of the trees, Mr. Brown turned to W3Schools.org and HTML5rocks.com for online tutorials.
For some experiences, such as turn-by-turn navigation or local search, location is the central feature, but increasingly, new types of applications in music, sports, and entertainment are incorporating location to personalize content delivery.
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The MW810 Mobile Workstation packs an internal "Dead Reckoning" GPS backup feature which continues to estimate your location even when the signal is lost.
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"The site has been specifically selected as an important gateway to Scotland, by both road and rail, and as such, is considered a suitable location for a focal feature, " it added.
Many of the winning applications had some kind of social networking feature, including Life360, a location-based system that, among other things, allows users to form social networks with others in their neighborhood.
It is time to think beyond location alone but to couple this feature which will be increasingly accurate, particularly indoors with other data sources, such as user context and past behaviors.
For location check-ins, Facebook will feature a large map of destinations.
He also said Android has significantly improved its mobile-app store, now called Google Play, over the past year, including a revamped search feature and providing more data to developers about the location of app's users and the type of phones they're using.
The enhanced Active Copy feature now automatically copies files to a Pogoplug in another location.
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The gorgeous speaker cabinets are easy on the eyes, with or without the speaker grille, and feature metal matrix waveguide-mounted tweeters that deliver big hi-fi sound from any location in the room.
Google also does similar things with Google Now, its smart assistant feature in Android, which can do things like remind users when they should leave a location to make an appointment.
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On the lower left, however, the obscure location number has been swapped out for the new "Time to Read" feature, which is exactly what it sounds like: an estimate of how many minutes it will take you to finish the book.
You can search by donor, recipient, location, and sector of giving to see trends, or use the advanced search feature to see where your neighbors or peers are giving (by searching by donor name or city).
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The 150 inside rooms - normally the least attractive accommodations on board - feature virtual portholes that offer a video view of the ocean that corresponds to each stateroom's location: forward, aft, port or starboard.
Apple has used wi-fi location data for years to try to help users pinpiont their location, without having to rely on the satellite-based global positioning system a feature Apple has bragged about in the past.
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