WeatherBug is a free application for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that gives location based weather information in real-time on your mobile device. To get weather for your current location, you can either enter your zip code or have WeatherBug use GPS or GSM cellular tower triangulation to get your physical location. Once you have [...]

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AwareSpot is a free service that allows you to send and receive relevant location based SMS text message alerts to groups of people. You can either sign up for a public service for your own use or create a distribution list for familiy and friends to whom you can send custom alerts.
There are three types [...]

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NextBus is a free web and mobile service that allows you to view the status and arrival times of public transit and transportation systems such as buses, shuttles and streetcars by using real-time GPS satellite tracking combined with pattern based prediction.
Taking into account the actual position of the transit vehicles, their intended stops, [...]

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As noticed previously, Blackberry seems to be a popular platform for voice enabled search software for mobile devices. Already Yahoo! Go and Microsoft’s TellMe provide voice enabled search applications for Blackberry smartphones.
Now its the turn of Google to release Voice Search for Google Mobile Maps utilizing location based technology. Voice search in Google Maps [...]

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CitySense by Sense Networks is a freeware application for mobile devices that analyzes anonymous historic and real-time GPS and WiFi location data collected from cell phones, GPS receivers, WiFi-WLAN hotspots, and taxis over the last few years combined with real-time feeds to display a heatmap of the most popular places at a given time.
Citysense can [...]

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