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.

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.

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Soundtrckr has launched a free application and website that serve as a location-based mobile social music network.

AppVoyage, which offers a fully visual method for anyone to transform web content into mobile apps, has added new features to help create, launch and monitor ad campaigns.

Sixt rent-a-car UK has launched its new mobile rental booking application for Blackberry smartphones. The new app is compatible with Blackberry models including the Curve, Bold, Pearl and Storm models.

Qualcomm is revamping its Brew Mobile Platform to make it more attractive to handset makers, developers and mobile operators. The revamped Brew will integrate social networking, e-mail and location-based services (LBS).

Nokia Research Centre in Bangalore, India, is piloting We Meet, an SMS application that determines the user's location without GPS. Instead the app determines location based on Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) messages.

Quiksee, a multimedia app released by an Israeli start-up of the same name, takes mobile mapping to a new and much more informal and personal level. It allows any user to upload images or video to Google Maps.

Exaktime has introduced PocketClock/GPS for BlackBerry, an app that turns a BlackBerry smartphone into a portable GPS time clock and management tool for supervisors in the field.