Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:54 am

Rift between Apple and Google widens

Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple and Google continue to drift away. News that Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a company that develops APIs used for mapping, is the latest sign of an increasing rift. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's acquisition actually took place this past July, and a founder of a partner company that was using [...]

Twitter likely to use location service

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter has announced that it will release API’s to third-party developers so that users can connect based on latitude and longitude preferences. According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, the company has been working on the service for a while. Location based services become more important as users move to smart-phones to Tweet. [...]

The saga continues - Google versus Apple

Atlanta (IP-192.com): The saga continues – According to The New York Times, Google Voice will soon be available for Apples iPhone as a Web-based app. The phone-management application, which Apple may have rejected under AT&T pressure, will be remade as a stylized Web site that offers everything the rejected app would have. It is unclear [...]