Google's Latitude service, launched in February, constantly updates users' location, enabling contacts to see their whereabouts on a map as well as their activity via status updates.

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Reports suggested Apple made the move after Google proved unwilling to upgrade its service unless it was allowed to include more of its own branding and Latitude - a service which shows users where their friends are located.

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Last year Google launched a service called Latitude that allows friends to track one another's movements.

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Flexibility not currently afforded to managers -- especially with respect to expedited hiring of needed personnel, the ability to reward outstanding service and greater latitude to reassign or terminate non-performers -- will enable the Pentagon's civilians to keep pace with, and support, the transformation of the capabilities of their military counterparts.

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