Apple’s sweeping “Device to Device Location Awareness” patent covers a lot of ground, not the least of which are a hint at iPhone video conferencing and the ability to locate whoever’s on the receiving end of your call.

According to the technology proposed in the patent, a caller’s phone would ping the mobile device it’s communicating with to request location details. The second device determines its location and sends the information back to the originating Read the full story

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Google is rolling out Google Earth 2.0 for the iPhone over the next 24 hours and it brings a long-awaited custom map feature by allowing you to sync your Google My Maps with the app.

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he Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn’t buy companies it’s not going to use. Meaning, Apple’s getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google.

Seth at ComputerWorld, who put this together, points to a post on GigaOm last year detailing the awesomeness of PlaceBase vs. Google Maps—mainly, customization and tons of ways to layer multiple kinds of data sets onto maps, with an API that makes it easy to layer on those data sets.

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Pink Visual—the genius team behind iTouchHer—has launched a new mobile innovation. FapMapper (currently in beta) is an iPhone web app that allows you to put your sexual exploits on the map. Literally.

The idea is simple: using your iPhone, you can mark the FapMap to commemorate a place where you had a romantic tryst, a rushed little quickie, or even just rubbed one out. True, it’s not a completely originalidea (in fact, we feel like it’s been done several times before), but it does have a clever name and iPhone integration, which puts it at least a few steps ahead of its predecessors.

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