Only days after the talk started about Facebook adding location-awareness, Twitter has added geo-location features to its Tweeting network.

Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, will partner with the AlterGeo hybrid positioning startup to add location-based features to the Yandex maps and toolbar web applications.

Intersec Group, a French provider of new-generation telecommunications software for mobile and integrated operators, has released Geolocator IGLOO Version 1.1, a location-based services (LBS) enabler.

Within three days of its launch last week, Google Buzz had generated 9 million posts and comments, proving its instant popularity as a location-aware social network updater and integrator for use with Google Mail.

Trevor Hawthorn, founder and managing principal at Stratum Security, has warned that a free iTunes location-based game called Underworld: SweetDeal could expose players to physical as well as digital security risks.

FindWhere has licensed its iFind Mobile solution to International SOS, the world's leading provider of medical assistance, international healthcare, security services and outsourced customer care.

Point Inside has launched a free indoor navigation app which it claims is the most comprehensive yet for shoppers at top malls across North America. The app runs on Android, iPhone and iPod Touch handsets

The Fast Pitch! online business network has become the first social network of its kind to integrate geolocation into its platform. The network chose Foursquare to power the new location-based feature.

Minute but durable gyroscopes for navigation could be in mass production for mobile phones by 2012. This is the prediction of Norman Marenco, co-ordinator of the EU-funded DAVID project.

Mobcast, a new social networking app for the iPhone, lets you broadcast your location to your existing Facebook friends in the same way as Foursquare and Google Latitude.