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Loka is a simple app for your BlackBerry phone to share your location with friend. It works on every phone even those not equipped with GPS. Instead its using the cell id positioning info to display your current locations on the map.


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SomaView is brand new application for Android powered phones which allows you to discover your virtual neighborhood. It is actually augmented reality app for Android-powered phones that extends your world into the virtual. SomaView maps the virtual world around you using a number of selectable categories SomaView searches for location-based information around you and displays this information on a camera-overlay.


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Google just released updated version of its Google Mobile App. In Google's words it's easier and faster than ever to search Google using your Windows Mobile phone. It has new additions like "My Location", "Google Suggest" and "Search with Maps".


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And another application has joined ranks in the Skyhook Wireless household, this is for people who do mobile banking, it seems like a really good app in my honest opinion.
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After a long absent, Skyhook Wireless is back on the scene once more with a new Android dev and application under their belts. By now you should know, if you want your application to offer the best GPS service available, Skyhook Wireless at the moment is your best bet.
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Terrestrica is a freeware application for Windows Mobile which will help you create multimedia geolocation points and guides and distribute them to Mobile devices. The app combines the GPS of your mobile phone and the Internet in order to create that geo-location content.


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Here we go again folks, Skyhook Wireless is making allot of friends in the Android community and it just makes you wonder, who else is looking in on, Google?
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Another Android application has been added to the Skyhook family and it seems this trend wouldl continues throughout the year without hiccups.
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Google has launched the Latitude mobile app which helps track your friends, enables quick contact with them and to maintain privacy as well.

It is compatible with most Windows Mobile devices, especially those WM5 and up. Ditto for phones powered by Android, BlackBerry and Symbian S60. If Google Maps for Mobile v3.0 and above works in your phone, you will most probably be able to run Google Latitude.

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Location Based Service provider SkyHook Wireless is getting pretty friendly with Android developers and their applications, it appears developers are really warming up to SkyHook's Location Based SDK for Android.
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