Losing my phone last weekend was very stressful. I'm the sort of person who is typically incredibly careful with my belongings...

Read More: Researchers developing cyber security software to wipe mobile data based on location

Casual games with movie tie-ins don't tend to fare so well but the landscape is changing We've seen Angry Birds make a debut with a movie tie-in called Angry Birds Rio that's done quite well for itself and the movie it promotes. The latest news to come from the movie tie-in gaming space is Halfbrick's announcement of Fruit Ninja based on Puss in Boots. More after the jump.

Read More: Fruit Ninja Sequel Based On Puss In Boots Theme Launching October 20

Google, Amazon and Financial Times are just a fe of the big names that offer web alternatives to popular mobile apps for functions like email (Gmail), ebooks (Kindle) and e-newspapers. Here's a smaller name to add to the list.: i.TV.


Read More: Apps vs. Web: i.TV Providing HTML5 Based Content Now Too

Do your Facebook friends know where you are? If you’re like 1 in 4 Americans, they probably do. According to a new report released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, location based social media is being used by 28% of American adults.


Read More: Pew Research: A Quarter of Adults Use Location Based Social

Gootip is a free iPhone app and web-based service that is part of the trend of providing responses from people instead of search engines. One of its spins on this is it a location based questions and answers service. Unless otherwise specified, your question is based on your current location or a specified city.


Read More: Gootip for iPhone Gathers People Generated Answers to Questions Based on Where You Are

Despite what I wrote on February 2010, hyper-local marketing has made its way to the iPhone since then. The workApple Destroyed the Dream of Hyper-local Advertisements in Apps – Opportunity for Android? (Feb. 2010)TechCrunch reports that Placecast's Shopalerts service provides retailer and merchant offers and discounts to consumers via their mobile phones.Placecast Brings Location-Based Shopping Alerts To Retailer Smartphone AppsThe service works with retailer provided apps which sends a message [...]

Read More: Placecast Shopalerts Provides Opt-in Location Based Deals Alerts

Good news for local businesses – there is a new cool feature on Facebook called “Recommend this place”. It a really simple but clever update by Facebook to drive recommendations and grow its dominance among location based  service companies. You can read more about this new update at Insidefacebook.com .

Read More: Facebook strengthens its location based service offering with “Recommend this place”

 Over the past few years consumers have changed their mobile buying habits and have bought smart phones instead of normal feature phones. Iphones and Android products have taken over and according to recent data; more than 35% of the UK now owns a smart phone. 59.3% of these smart phone users are now interacting on [...]

Read More: Location Based Marketing. The Next Big Thing?

7pm EST, Monday July 11th Help us crowdsource the social strategy for a new company every week during the #socialfresh Twitter chat. Tonight's #SocialFresh Twitter chat featured company is Gunn Jerkens. They are a Real Estate Marketing company looking for: Social strategies that can be employed to generate a large and qualified online following. How to draw more [...]

Read More: How Can An Agency Based On Home Developers Best Use Social Media?