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Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:13 pm
Facebook is on the verge of launching a new location-based feature, allowing users to see the current locations of their friends, in late April.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company started preparing for the release last November when it updated its privacy policy to say: "When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post."People with knowledge of the project said Facebook had been working on a location-based service for close to a year, but held off on an announcement until it was completely ready for mainstream adoption, fearing of potential privacy concerns or negative feedback from its users. The new feature will not only let users share their whereabouts with friends, but also give third-party developers tools to create location-based apps for users. People familiar with the project said the company isn't attempting to compete against smaller location-based social networks, such as Foursquare, but instead planning to go head-to-head with Google in a battle for small-business advertising. In 2009, Google launched its Latitude service while Twitter, another Facebook rival, added location data with messages.
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Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:37 am
China's government is requiring mobile phone users submit personal information when signing up for new phone numbers, in a move to curb unsolicited spam and fraud.
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Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:27 pm
Target will add mobile phone centers to about 850 of its 1,743 stores by December, with a nationwide rollout expected by the middle of next year.
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Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:56 am
GroupMe has raised $850,000 from investors to develop an application that enables group chat through text messaging and voice calls from any phone in the world.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:45 pm
Smartphones will make up over half of Asian handset sales by 2015, with estimated 477 million units to be sold, according to an industry report.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:11 pm
A British woman has shattered the world record for typing the world's fastest text message, beating the previous record by almost 10 seconds with a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone.
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