Social network Facebook has launched a mobile location service called Facebook Places. It enables users to 'check in' to a location using their mobile phone; this check-in then appears on their Facebook status. Facebook users at a venue can also choose to have their presence shared with other visitors if they wish.
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It's the so-called 'silly season' for news, so we'll forgive online insurance provider protectyourbubble.com for its list of the ten most incredible iPhone insurance claims. The company, which says a fifth of Apple iPhone users have made an insurance claim during the past 12 months, puts "I dropped it from a hot air balloon" at the top of its list. Other unexpected claims include "I lost it while sky diving", "my son used it as a table tennis racket" and "I accidentally buried it in the garden".
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This week's edition of The Fonecast is now online. Iain Graham, James Rosewell and Mark Bridge take their usual look at mobile industry headlines from the last seven days, covering high-level departures, m-payments and iPhone jailbreaking. There's also a conversation with Anthony Erwin, founder of mobile dating and social networking company StreetSpark.
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A website called jailbreakme.com that lets iPhone and iPad users ‘jailbreak’ their devices also introduces the opportunity for security risks, according to F-Secure.com.
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London-based Milly Allen will be streaming “anti X Factor” talent shows live from her mobile phone this autumn. She’s been running the Milly's World events for about a year from Proud Camden and will be using mobile video service Bambuser to put the next series of shows online.
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