Thursday, February 5, 2009

Locate Your Friends using Google Latitude!


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Google Latitude
is now live, a new service from Google that allows you to locate you and your friends on Google Maps and share it with others (not available on iPhone yet, but its coming soon).

Google Latitude

For now, you can explore it directly yourself via your mobile phone or from your computer. Instead you can also use this direct link to login, and then you’ll be prompted to install the gadget. I found that, as it claimed, the feature was unable able to detect my location automatically from my PC and I had to set it out manually.


Google’s features are pretty simple. Along with a person’s location, the person’s picture will show up on the map (if it’s being set during account creation). The service uses cell-phone tower triangulation, GPS or Wi-Fi to find your current location. As of now, it works on RIM’s Blackberrys, Symbian devices and Windows Mobile, and the T-Mobile G1. About iPhone it will be supported soon. The service goes live in the U.S. and 26 other countries.

Here is a quick video to make you understand about Google Latitude:



Link: Google Latitude

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Google SMS Channels: Send SMS Text Messages to your Group for Free




This time, Google come up with a new and innovative service for mobile phone subscribes. After SMS based search, Google have recently announced the launch of Google SMS Channels, which is a platform to send group SMS free of cost. It can be called the improved version of existing group messaging services like SMSgupshup and Mytoday.

The service “lets you subscribe to news alerts, blog updates and other kinds of information like horoscopes, jokes, stocks or even cricket scores via SMS text messages,” adding that Google SMS Channels are “free both for content publishers as well as mobile phone users who subscribe to text updates via SMS.”
http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/browse




features:
Unlike other group SMS providers, Google’s SMS channel does not add any advertisements on the message footer, so group publishers get full 160 character messages to post.
Compared to other group messaging providers, Google gets its message published faster and FREE.
Supports Blogger blogs, Google groups, Google Alerts, RSS feed URL and custom messages.
For subscriber point of view, option to set the maximum number of Incoming messages.

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