Google Latitude Back In The App Store

By Matthew Chung on 12/13/2010 04:51 PDT

After making a quick appearance followed by a disappearance last week, the official Google Latitude app has appeared in the iTunes App Store again, and hopefully it’s here to stay. Despite its recent release, the app currently boasts a version number of 2.0.0.346, though it could also be a result of the amount of time that it’s taken for the official app to arrive. Still, regardless of whether it makes a disappearing act again or not, you might want to download it and give it a test drive.

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Google Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.

iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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