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If your smartphone came with a built-in GPS receiver, you can choose to just overlook Google’s latest technology, but if your mobile is among the 85-percent (or so) out there lacking an integrated GPS module, listen up. The search giant has revealed new software (dubbed My Location) that enables non-GPS-equipped phones to be pinpointed within three miles of their actual location. Google is claiming that it can provide “neighborhood-level” data, and that pressing “0″ while in the app will enable users to skip the task of entering in a starting address when looking up directions. Notably, the system is not set up to collect phone numbers or any other personal details, and for those still paranoid, it can indeed be switched off. Currently, the tracking database still has a few gaps to be filled — namely locales in Europe and all of China / Japan — but Google [...]

Original post by Darren Murph

newVideoPlayer(“mishare.flv”, 475, 376); You might have heard of MiShare, a $100 pocket Linux box that lets you clamp in two iPods, butt to butt, to send songs, photos, videos and—truthfully—any other kind of file you want to send from one to the other. In the video, you will see how straightforward it is to swap a couple of songs; for a gallery of pics and the more detailed ins and outs, read on.

galleryPost(\’miShareHandsOn\’, 6, \’\');
As you’ve seen, the basic transaction is sending one song into the other iPod’s active library without using a computer. In fact, the miShare is, in essence, a Linux computer, one with a simple push-button interface and a dedicated lithium-ion battery.
The miShare views both iPods as USB storage disks whose data can be accessed using the gtkpod open-source method found in many third-party iPod programs.
Any standard iPod that’s 5G or older will work just fine [...]

Original post by Wilson Rothman