PCWorld - Google latitude lets you track and be trackedDo you know where your friends are? If not, Google wants to help you find them. Today, Google introduced Latitude, a new opt-in feature that lets smartphone and laptop users share their location with friends and allows those friends to share their locations in return. Although not pinpoint accurate, Latitude can display your general location based on information from GPS satellites and cell towers. Latitude works on both mobile devices and personal computers.
What Latitude can do:
Once you and your friends have opted in to Latitude, you can see your friends' Google icon displayed on Google Maps. Clicking on their icon allows you to call, email or IM them, and you can even use the directions feature on Google Maps to help you get to their location.
Google says Latitude works in 27 countries and with many mobile platforms including iGoogle with your computer. The list of compatible phones are:
*Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1
*iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon)
*most color BlackBerry devices
*most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices
*most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smartphones) *many Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, such as Sony Ericsson devices (coming soon)
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