Another first from google.Now you can track your friends / relatives through their mobiles or wireless devices using google Latitude.
Google released the real-time location tool Google Latitude and opened up a new world of location-based services (LBS) for both PC and mobile phone users.Latitude enables you to track friends, family, employees and so on — and vice-versa — in real time.
Google Latitude is available on the following mobile devices wherever Google Maps for mobile v3.0 and above is supported:
- Android-powered devices with Maps v3.0 and above. G1 users in the US will be receiving Maps v3.0 in a system update soon.
- Most color BlackBerry devices
- Most Windows Mobile 5.0 and above devices. Note: Some Windows Mobile devices don’t support cell-ID location detection.
- Most Symbian S60 devices
Coming soon! (Not supported now)
- iPhone and iPod touch devices with the Google Mobile App (in the US)
- Many Sony Ericsson devices
Google Latitude allows you to share your location with friends and view their locations on a map.
Latitude is completely opt-in, so you must enable it before you can start sharing location and can disable it at any time.
With Latitude, you can also:
- Share your location and status updates with the friends you choose
- See on a map where your friends are and what they’re up to
- Quickly contact them with text message, instant message, or phone call
- Control how much or how little location info you want to share with whomever you choose.
Google Latitude is available in the following languages and countries.
Languages:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.
Countries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Start using it right now .Click here.
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Really google can come up with anything and it is the only one who can come up with great things like this, Hats off google!
yup , you are right. Google keeps coming with products which make you smile. Hats off
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