According to several Google employee sources with the New York Times, the company will start selling a pair of glasses that will be able to stream information to the person wearing them in real-time. The glasses will be available to the public by the end of the year. The glasses will cost between about $250 and $600.
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Google Inc. has quietly launched a new feature for Google Latitude called Google Leaderboard. Now when you check in to Google Latitude, you will start creeping to the top of your rankings between all of your connections. This functionality has been built in to Foursquare since their app launched. The Google Latitude Leaderboard is not available to everyone yet, but you can probably expect it to hit a phone near you soon. [Engadget]
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has updated the iPhone applications Places and Latitude. Google Latitude is popular for its check-in services and Google Places is now available in 30 different languages.
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) said that for the 10 million people that use Google Latitude, there is now a check-in feature on the Android. You can use Latitude to automatically update and share your location. Check ins add a certain context to the location you are at such as captions to a photo. Google Latitude will send you a notification when you arrive at a nearby place so you can easily check-in. Below is a video demo:
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On December 8th I wrote about how the Google Latitude iPhone application will be releasing soon. Today Google has officially announced the Latitude iPhone application. The Google Latitude iPhone application shows you where your friends are on a Google Map. Between Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Symbian there are about 9 million mobile Google Latitude users. Check out the video demo below:
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is releasing the Google Latitude iPhone application very soon. The Google Latitude app was released briefly on iTunes Japan, but was removed. It sounds like it was added prematurely, but should be coming back again soon to all the iTunes markets. Google Latitude will let you see where your friends are on a map. You can also share your location with anyone you want. [TechCrunch]
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has improved Google Maps for Android version 4.3. Google Maps for Android now have train schedules and the ability to find friends on Google Latitude.
Reviews are built into Google Maps now too. So if you search for a restaurant, you can tap on it and read what people are saying about the food, service, selection, and atmosphere about that particular place. [Google Mobile Blog]
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has launched APIs for Google Latitude. Users will specifically need to allow Google Latitude access to an application before using the service. Some of the ideas that Google threw out there for applications that can be built on top of Google Latitude APIs include:
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