Google tracks people

With an upgrade to its mobile maps, Google hopes to prove it can track people on the go as effectively as it searches for information on the Internet, reports Daily News Los Angeles.

The new software released Wednesday will enable people with mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends.

The feature, dubbed "Latitude," expands on a tool introduced in 2007 to allow mobile phone users to check their own location on a Google map with the press of a button.

CSR has unveiled its UniFi UF6000 range of WiFi chips, the world's smallest and lowest-cost range of 802.11n compatible devices to add to its Connectivity Centre line-up, states MarketWatch.

At less than 16mm-sq of silicon, the UniFi UF6000 devices are designed as embedded WiFi products making them the lowest cost way of adding an 802.11n enabled WiFi to mobile devices.

As more smart and feature phones start to include WiFi, CSR has released the UniFi UF6000 WiFi range to provide manufacturers with the lowest cost route to integrate WiFi into handsets, without compromising on performance or PCB space.

Asustek Computer yesterday teamed up with portable navigation device maker Garmin to produce Garmin-Asus nuvifones for location-based navigation services worldwide, says The Taipei Times.

The partnership will leverage the companies' navigation and mobile telephone expertise to design, manufacture and distribute location-centric mobile phones, an Asus statement read.

Garmin-Asus nuvifones will be on display at the Mobile World Congress trade show, in Barcelona, Spain, from 16 to 19 February.