Such an app is location-enabled so it knows what to show based on where you are.
The app is location-aware and provides access to your notes on pretty much any device (iPad, iPhone, Android, desktop, laptop).
The app offered location-based services linking users to vendors featured on the show as well as thousands of others across North America.
Unlike Apple, which places increasingly tight control over what people can put on iPads, Google seems to want as many outsiders as possible to put anything they want on Android, with the fastest possible velocity of successful apps moving through the system (love an app, and you can automatically Tweet a link to its app store location).
If you arrive at an airport but your duffel doesn't, you can check its location online with the Trakdot app, or get its location sent to you via text message or e-mail.
Foursquare, the New York based location app, had its first public showing 4 years ago this week at the New York Tech meetup.
Users can search for a location or interesting places to go, save the location in Magellan's Smart Ecosystem cloud, and through Magellan's SmartGPS App, send the location to their SmartGPS automatically via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth for in-vehicle navigation.
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After determining your location (if you grant permission), the app will pull up a location in the TV series with comparable weather.
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This agreement will allow consumers the opportunity to review an app's privacy policy before they download the app rather than after, and will offer consumers a consistent location for an app's privacy policy on the application-download screen.
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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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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.
TuneIn now will suggest related stations and Glympse, a location sharing app, will automatically pull your destination from the car's GPS. Overall the data that powers the apps is still pulled down by the phone, so watch those data caps, but without a doubt this is a far safer way of using apps than actually picking up your phone.
Knowing your location, the app pulls local information on when the sun will rise and set that day.
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Facebook has acquired mobile location-based app Gowalla, the companies confirmed Monday.
Highlight, a location-based app that provides information about people nearby, was one of the hyped new apps at South By Southwest this year.
The company connects riders and drivers through a smartphone app, which identifies your location, shows you nearby cars and sends you a text message when your car arrives.
The Arena app serves as a central location for consumers to access all Green Throttle supported games, control settings to pair their Atlas controller(s), and helps developers with app discovery by making their games noticeable and easy to find.
Location-based shopping app provider shopkick has been quietly making huge inroads in the retail industry.
According to Scott Daniel, CEO and Founder, HipGeo, the app is the second phase of location and check in technology.
In use with BMW Apps, Glympse location information from the app is populated with options to share, pause or cancel the information through the BMW iDrive controller and screen.
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According to Yago, people are using Wyst for everything from sharing personal moments at a location to using the app as a way to catalog the shifting urban landscapes.
Along that same data spine, customers can add reviews, limousine services and florists can enhance the dining experience, and a location-aware Smartphone app can tell you what restaurant within walking distance of where you are has a table available right now.
This allowed us to create sample scenarios to showcase ingenuity and innovation, including how the mobile app can alert individuals on its location and areas to avoid for a fire, flood or terrorist attack, all by aggregating emergency frequency broadcast and GPS technology.
Another app for discovering information based on your location, History Here, finds historical facts for your area.
They narrowed the ideas to five, including a location-based photo sharing app, but none really stood out as a winner.
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Following its initial 2008 release, the app was revised to incorporate ads (location-based as well as regular display ads and sponsored listings) and premium services.
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Ideally, the app will automatically start from your current location.
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Now Facebook, Apple, Google and smaller app developers are collecting nuanced details like location data and address-book info, and across a wider breadth of people (more than a billion in the case of Facebook).
Highlight, a location-based people discovery app that made a splash at last year's SxSW Interactive in Austin, TX, just released a big 1.5 update that adds photo-sharing and event-creation to its set of features.
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