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The google latitude platform is the newest app to receive the ax from the search giant. One in three Google apps never stand the test of time, and Latitude is no exception. Starting August 9, 2013, the google latitude program will be discontinued on Google The latest horse to be sent out to pasture from Google's stables is Latitude. Little notice was given when the service's retirement was revealed -- albeit quite quietly -- back in July. In a blog post about the latest version of Maps, Google mentioned in Yesterday, Google Inc. released the real-time location tool google latitude and opened up a new world of location-based services for both PC and mobile phone users. For now, though, most questions center on how people can use Latitude and how it does its a new feature allowing users to earn points for checking in to a location via Google Latitude. Last week, Google launched an updated version of Google Maps for Android, equipped with the new feature similar to Foursquare. The company hasn't officially said Artwork: Chip Taylor In what seems to be a weekly occurrence, Google has announced yet another new product seemingly designed to suck what little privacy you have left out of your life. It's called Latitude, and it uses your phone's GPS chip and/or cell Yet another service has succumbed to the all-consuming Google+, with Google announcing the imminent shutdown of Google Latitude next month. The features that Latitude users enjoyed aren’t going away. People can still share their whereabouts with fellow .

If you eagerly updated your Android device to the shiny new version of Google Maps yesterday, only to despair at the absence of Google's Latitude location tracking/sharing service, there's a good reason for that. Latitude is going the way of Google Reader Google have released Google Latitude, an update to their Mobile Maps app which adds the ability to share your location with other users, track friends' movements and trigger calls, emails and IM conversations with them directly from Latitude's user interface. Google Latitude, a service launched in early 2009 that lets users track the location of their friends by using their mobile device’s location services, has had its share of roadblocks on its path to the iPhone, but it seems to have finally made its way .