Upgrades to the SpareOnePlus include a location-based service which identifies the exact location of the cell ID, accessible through a free smartphone app, as well as audible numeric feedback which reads the number dialed and incoming calls aloud.
But what Steve Jobs failed to mention that many location-based services used by apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp require a mapping service to show location.
Twitter users joked that maybe he had been found by accidentally checking in to the popular geo-location service Foursquare.
FORBES: How America Was Tricked Into Caring About Osama Bin Laden's Death Announcement
"After an intensive search, which I want to salute, the intelligence service detected the location where he was held, " Le Drian, France's defense minister, said Saturday.
Notably not in attendance (or at least, not visible at the event) were location service startups Foursquare and Gowalla, much of whose value lies in the rich database of check-ins they are sitting on.
What's more, that loaner will be a top-of-the-line Model S regardless of the car you turn in (there's a fleet of 85 to start with, each with valet service to your location), and customers in "most markets" can also opt to get a Tesla Roadster as a loaner if they'd prefer to try out something sportier.
Dennis Crowley, chief executive of the hot location-based service Foursquare, talked about plans for the company and his vision of location-based services at an event organized by Girls In Tech in San Francisco Tuesday night.
FORBES: Foursquare's Dennis Crowley Talks Roadmap, Clippy, Future of Location
Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab is being held by the U.S Marshals Service in an undisclosed location.
Treating the EU as a single market, using just the one corporate location to service all of their customers.
And Google Now requires you to compromise some privacy, by allowing the service to track your location and search history.
People can also browse Houzz's Professionals section to see sample work and sort these pros by location and service to find someone they may want to hire.
Unlike some Web-based phenoms, the location check-in service Foursquare has an obvious potential business model: local ads based on your geographic location, perhaps coupled with inferred interests from your previous check-ins.
FORBES: Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: It's Still About Growth, Not Ad Money (Yet)
Do you need a better way for your service trucks to update their location?
FORBES: Does It Make Sense To Build A Mobile App For The iPhone?
Google in June launched Map Maker, a service that lets people upload location data to its Web site.
Your innovation may be simply a better location, better service, or a better price, or it could be a technology innovation.
Increasing brand awareness was the also goal for his startup, says Chris Mirabile, a founder of the Facebook location-based service The Hotlist.
FORBES: Buying Celebrity Endorsement On Twitter, A Steal For Businesses
Department spokeswoman Alison Ritter told the Tribune that Helms has been in talks with the company and the National Park Service because of the sensitive location.
Keila Kirkpatrick said she started hearing friends talk about Groupon, a location-based service that deals out a daily bargain in subscribers' hometowns, along with a punchy, fun e-mail description of that deal.
In future, more of this experimentation will take place on Facebook, which boasts over 150m mobile users and so ought to be the one network capable of creating a massive, location-based service fast.
Foursquare, Facebook and other apps are working hard to condense and cleanse this information in an easy and authoritative way, but in the meantime businesses need to monitor their location-based service presence to ensure their business is found once and has a single social identity.
Seaton also adores UrbanSpoon, a similar geo-location-powered recommendation service, with especially strong user-powered listings for restaurants and cafes.
The service can also use smartphones' location to verify charges flagged as suspicious.
ENGADGET: AmEx, Starbucks announce plans for Passbook integration: both live by end of the month
Last summer, Boston-based Where, which runs a mobile ad network and location-based recommendation service, opened a development center in Croatia to supplement its 18-person U.S. mobile engineering staff.
Run by the same staff and found in the same location, the childcare service offers a safe, healthy and creative place for the children to go whilst the adults are studying.
However, the commission said its preferred option was to "remove the screen wall and erect a new screen wall at a more suitable location down in the service plot area" of the cemetery.
To make it easier to share your World Cup passion, CNN has teamed up with the location based social networking service Foursquare on an innovative project for World Cup fans in the 32 competing nations.
Less than a month after photo social network Instagram caught huge flak over advertiser-friendly changes to its privacy policy (and claimed it was misunderstood), another social network, the location check-in service Foursquare, has announced revenue-friendly changes to its privacy policy.
FORBES: Foursquare Checks In To Real Names And Sticks A Big Fork Into Pseudonymity
In its email, Best Buy gave its customers the option of canceling their orders outright, replacing it with a similar device, or searching the product at a brick and mortar location (a customer service rep told us that the Transformer Prime is not in stock).
ENGADGET: ASUS Transformer Prime pre-order shipments delayed at Best Buy, Amazon
Pishevar thinks that now that Gmail has a social-network service like Buzz built in, which adds social, real-time and location-based information to the mix, the service becomes an interesting proposition to gamers and developers.
应用推荐