After launching OnMyWay for Blackberry in March, TeleNav has now made the free app available for iPhone and Android devices.

During the first six months of this year, the worldwide smartphone applications market exceeded the total for the whole of last year.

In a not-to-be-missed saga of impending world domination, Christopher Backeberg extracts the essence of about a zillion news reports, reviews and analyses on the launch of Facebook Places last week and its implications for location-based services (LBS)...

StarChase has launched a GPS device for covert or overt tracking of vehicles, people, packages or vitually anything else, claiming: "If it moves, we can track it."

Lone Guardian has launched Guardian2, the second generation of its personal tracking and location devices.

In a longer-than-usual interview, TheWhereBusiness writer Christopher Backeberg asks for and receives some highly illuminating education on location technology from Manlio Allegra, CEO of Polaris Wireless...

Google has started encouraging developers to produce location-based check-in applications through the Google Places API.

MapHook has launched a free journal and social networking application for iPhone, iPad and PC that allows users to create location-based entries - ‘hooks' - about events, activities and places that can be shared with their contacts.

 

IN-DEPTH: Interview with Tony Jebara, co-founder & chief scientist at Sense Networks.

apprupt launches self-service platform for appvertisers; LBS on the verge of mainstream acceptance, says Berg Insight; Greystripe updates iPhone ad SDK; Calibrus develops GPS-enabled Live Event app.