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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 08, 2012
It was only late last year that we covered the news of Chaos Created, a UK based studio, asking for volunteers in and around London to dress up as zombies and act out in footage for their...
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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 07, 2012
Microsoft has updated the how-to section of the official Windows Phone website to include a small tip regarding when location based services are currently active. A small indicator (see above image...
Review
by George Ponder
Feb 04, 2012
If you've ever had trouble remember where you saw something you need Save My Spot! for your Windows Phone. Save My Spot! allows you to record the GPS coordinates of the spot you need help...
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by Daniel Rubino
Dec 07, 2011
If you've downloaded an app from the Marketplace in the last few hours, you may have received the above pop-up screen before being allowed to continue. The "accept" part is for a new...
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by George Ponder
Oct 20, 2011
Ever forget where you parked your car? How about where your hotel is? Radar is a Windows Phone app that is designed to help you find your way back to locations such as where you parked your...
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by Rich Edmonds
Aug 23, 2011
Facebook has finally killed Places, the seemingly dead check in service that's remained fairly inactive for sometime. It's available in the Facebook for Windows Phone app so what happens to users...
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by Rich Edmonds
Aug 01, 2011
Microsoft has recently made changes to its geographic location service, which we reported on not so long ago as having a lack of safeguards and a privacy flaw. Elie Bursztein, a researcher at...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jul 30, 2011
CNET previously reported on Microsoft's lack of privacy safeguards for their database at Live.com, which both Google and Skyhook Wireless now sport. A researcher at Stanford University, Elie...
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by Daniel Rubino
May 11, 2011
We reported a few weeks ago about the whole "location tracking" issue, which was started by the iPhone, proceeded by concerns on Android and finally Windows Phone, which was mostly exonerated from...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 26, 2011
Earlier yesterday, PC Magazine managed to get Microsoft on record about the whole "location-data storage" controversy (see related coverage on the iPhone here and on Android here via our sister...
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by Daniel Rubino
Apr 21, 2011
The app 'Text My Location' is an oldie, having been on the Marketplace since early November of last year. It's a fairly basic app that finds your location and allows you to send it via SMS, Email...
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by Daniel Rubino
Feb 09, 2010
Today, Google announced its new service called Google Buzz. Think of combining Twitter, Google Latitude and Gmail and you have Buzz.Actually, if you've been using FourSquare...it's ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2009
Just a quick reminder that our first Fall Freebies contest is under way, and we're giving two lucky reads yearlong subscriptions to TeleNav.And out of the kindness of our hearts, we've extended...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2009
Summer's finally gone, but we're not done with the giveaways just yet. In conjunction with TeleNav, two lucky readers will win one-year subscriptions to TeleNav GPS Navigator. That's one year of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 22, 2009
Kinoma Play, one of our favorite Windows Mobile multimedia players has been updated and now sports location-based features and has tied it into its built-in Twitter app. (Pretty cool for spying...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2009
There are a few true killer apps on Windows Mobile and GeoTerrestrial's GPSToday is certainly a contender (Live Search is the other).
What is GPSToday?
As far as I can tell, it fills in the...
Review
by George Ponder
Feb 16, 2009
Google's watching you. Or at least that is what some of the headlines read when Google launched its latest version of Google Maps. The reason behind all the conspiracy theories cropping up...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 12, 2009
Google Maps and Microsoft Live Search certainly aren't the only search games in town. Yahoo has updated its oneSearch service with oneSearch Shortcut, which hooks into your today screen and...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 09, 2009
Our man Malatesta has spied an update to Windows Live Search Mobile. We're all sitting here in the WME mothership in our anti-gravity chairs (what, your office doesn't have them?) working with...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2009
We've long raved about the merits of Windows Live Search Mobile and why it's our favorite free piece of navigation software. (Read the full review here.) And Microsoft is very much keeping pace...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Palringo is one of our favorite instant messaging systems out there despite the odd requirement that you create a Palringo-specific account to use it. That new login is looking less burdensome...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Recently updated in the movement to invade your children's privacy, follow your cheating spouse, ...never lose your phone and locate your friends is Mobfindr from Navizon that will allow you...
