Location-sharing app appears in App Store nearly two years after Google said it was 'coming soon'By Gregg Keizer
December 13, 2010 12:45 PM
Computerwknowl - Google today launched its location-sharing Latitude app for the iPhone, making good on a promise nearly two years old.
Google Latitude lets a user share his or her physical location with friends, and locate friends on a map, the company said in an announcement Monday.
"You can see where your friends are and now, continuously share where you are ... even in the background once you've closed the app," said Chris Lambert, a software engineer on the Latitude team, in a post to a Google blog.
Google launched Latitude in February 2009 -- a beta appeared the year before -- for smartphones running the Android operating system, as well as devices powered by Symbian, Windows Mobile and Research in Motion's BlackBerry. At the time, Google said that an app for the iPhone was "coming soon."
Monday, December 13, 2010
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