EveryTrail has announced the general availability of its mobile travel app - EveryTrail Guides - through the company's travel guide marketplace.

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.

Recently launched apps and services: an AR rangefinder for golfers, NavDroyd and skobbler for Android, Earthcomber for Windows Mobile devices, a location aware mobile messaging app, and a non-GPS geolocation service for developers.

Facebook has acquired NextStop - a travel recommendation service that has been operating for two years.

Trimble has launched a free mobile app and website that empowers Gulf Coast residents and the public to report on the oil spill.

It's easy to get carried away by hi-tech mobile gear - but sometimes you forget that mobile is about people. Unless users like and use your service, it will wither away.

A month after launching its iPhone app at a nominal price in the UK, skobbler has now teamed up with the iPhone and OpenStreetMap communities to make its iPhone 3G and 3GS compatible sat nav app available as a free download from the UK App Store.

Urban Mapping expands neighbourhoods database; Ovi Maps partners with Qype; Turkcell launches Gezenzi; UYMobile wins South America edition of 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge; AURA Interactive signs agreement with Netbiscuits; INRIX launches Community Traffic Reports; Apple iPad sales hit two million within sixty days; Placecast says 40% error rate in location datasets.

Yahoo! has extended its social, mobile and local offerings with the acquisition of Jakarta, Indonesia-based Koprol, for an undisclosed transaction price.

skobbler has announced an industry first on the iPhone with the launch of an entirely free turn-by-turn iPhone nav app for North America based on a live user-editable map.