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In this day and age of location-aware smartphones, it’s almost scary how closely we can “follow” friends, family and even internet strangers. Even scarier is how Google’s friend-tracking service, Google Latitude, makes it even easier to spy on your friends. And, it looks like Google Latitude support is coming to the iPhone with the launch of iPhone OS 3.0!
Google showed off the iPhone OS 3.0 Safari browser with built-in support for Latitude’s real-time friend-tracking during a Google I/O keynote. Slashgear‘s video shows Google Latitude running on the iPhone Safari browser, confirming that the new Safari will play nice with the “W3C” geo-location API. That basically means the next-generation iPhone OS will allow the web browser to determine the user’s location, and use that information to update location-aware services like Google Latitude (and paves the way for turn-by-turn GPS navigation).
But wait, there’s more. As more iPhone developers make use of the iPhone OS 3.0′s geo-location support, we’re going to see some really impressive LBS (location-based services) applications hitting the App Store. We can’t wait!
[Via: Slashgear]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
