Google Latitude, the mobile location-tracking service that lets users share where they are, now offers the option of ‘checking in’ at a specific location.
It’s a feature that’s been introduced today on version 5.1 of Google Maps 5.1 for Android, with the iPhone app due to be updated shortly.
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Andrew Harrison has been promoted to CEO of Best Buy Europe.
He was previously CEO of The Carphone Warehouse before becoming Chief Operating Officer of Best Buy Europe last year.
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A new study from Cisco suggests that worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 26-fold between 2010 and 2015, reaching 6.3 exabytes per month by 2015.
This dramatic rise is being driven by an increase in mobile internet-enabled devices and a growing demand for video services.
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88% of client-side marketers say they’ll use mobile marketing in 2011. That’s the conclusion of a new survey from the US-based Association of National Advertisers in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association.
In addition, 75% planned to spend an average 59% more on their mobile marketing than they did last year.
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Earlier this year Ericsson predicted we’d end 2011 with over a billion mobile broadband connections worldwide.
The latest market data from ABI Research agrees, with mobile broadband-enabled subscriptions expected to pass the billion mark within the next 11 months. That’s a fifth of all mobile connections around the world.
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