Foursquare has published a new version of its Android application in the Google Play Store. The updated app adds bolded shout-outs and friend mentions; more relevant photo categories and results; the ability to report spammy or offensive tips; and the ability to save favorites from the activity screen. The app is a free download.
TomTom today rolled out a new version of its iPhone navigation application. The most significant new feature of TomTom version 1.11 is integration with Foursquare. Once the TomTom and Foursquare apps are linked on the device, users can search for and navigate to Foursquare locations and check in on arrival. Other new features include a […]
Foursquare recently updated its BlackBerry application to version 3.9. The most significant new feature is NFC (near field communications) on certain BlackBerry models, such as the Bold 9900, to let users simply tap their handsets on NFC stickers to share their locations. The update also includes improvements for overall app speed and GPS performance, as […]
The newly unveiled Foursquare update is also now known to have a special extra for Android 4.0 users. Those who have a Galaxy Nexus or another phone that supports Android Beam can use the NFC feature to share a location, a list, or themselves to someone else just by bringing the phones close together. To […]
Foursquare has updated its free iOS and Android apps with some of the features seen from the web. Explore now has contextual results for locations, such as pushing restaurants to the top at dinnertime, what friends have been doing, and whether they’re on lists. A filter lets users skew the results to look for undiscovered […]
Foursquare product head Alex Rainert disclosed in a quick interview Friday that the app would be getting automatic check-ins over time. He explained to Business Insider that the team had wanted people to check in simply by going to a location but that it was matter of “technical restraints” and design. The Radar feature for […]
Foursquare has announced that it has added restaurant menus to its range of web-based services. The company has collaborated with SinglePlatform to power the new feature, which is said to cover more than 13 million items at nearly 250,000 different restaurants in major US cities. Users can access the new content on the right hand […]
Foursquare put the iPhone back at the front of its app priorities with an update to its free iOS app. Radar uses iOS 5-specific background location features to automatically notify a user when close to a given location. It can at a minimum send a notice when friends have recently checked in nearby, but it […]
Over a quarter of the US uses some kind of online location service, Pew discovered Tuesday. About 28 percent have used Google Maps or a similar location service at least on the web. With smartphone owners, that number more than doubles to 58 percent, researchers said. Only a slice of these have ever used a […]
Not to be oudone by Microsoft, Foursquare just revealed that it will add specific events to its popular check-in app. For example, users will now have the option to select the movie they’re seeing when they check in to a local movie theater. This translates to concerts and other events as well. To achieve this, […]
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