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Google “lifts the lid” on how their my location service works

…well not really. The summary from the official Google mobile blog reads
“Wireless phones can make and receive calls because they are connected over the air to a nearby cell tower. The phone knows the ID of the cell tower that it’s currently using. If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends [...]

Microsoft LIVE providing real-time location based search in the UK

Microsoft quietly launched a new feature on the mobile version of their live website at http://m.live.comhere in the UK.  As you can see from the screenshots below, there is now a “find me” button.
Users in the UK who access m.live.com from their native WAP browser (would not work on Opera Mobile or Opera Mini) are automatically [...]

Nokia Maps 2.0 graduates and gets “my location” feature

Welcome to All About Symbian readers - looks like we’ve had a flood of traffic from the post by Steve Litchfield titled Ruminations on cell-id location in Nokia Maps 2.0.
I have been using Nokia maps for some time now, and following the launch of their V2.0 beta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I have been [...]

Update: Putting Google Mobile Maps with My Location to the test

Following on from my earlier post on the new My Location feature on Google Mobile Maps, and after having used the application for the last month, I thought I’d provide an update on usability in a range of real world situations.

While I have been testing it everywhere I have travelled in December (London, Bristol, Athens, [...]