Google Maps has expanded its traffic feature, originally accessible to US, Britain, Canada, by allowing the service to be viewed in thirteen more European countries. The feature, which now includes Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland, allows you to see live traffic information for all the major routeways and main city roads…
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Foursquare are rumoured to be looking at a partnership with Groupon, that could see increasingly localised deals being offered to users. Though this isn’t yet confirmed, it’s looking likely, particularly as such a partnership could put both services in a stronger position to take on Facebook.
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When it comes to any subject around the internet, you pretty much want to hear from the person that invented it! At a talk at the annual Nokia World conference, Sir Tim Berners-Lee discussed the future of location services
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As someone who is yet to really embrace the location game I wanted to conduct a survey into how people use location services, as well as opinion on Facebook Places. Some of the findings were quite surprising and show some of the concerns people have about location, and the impact Facebook’s new service could have on Foursquare.
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