Now this is location-based application use that we can really get behind. Sometimes you’re just in a hurry to get the festivities of the evening kicked off and it’s hard to find an open drugstore. Maybe you don’t have a couple of quarters left for the gas station vending machine. Whatever the case, you need a condom and you need it now. Thanks to the New York City Health Department, there’s now an iPhone and Android application that uses your phone’s GPS to guide you right to your goal....

Location-based “Mixed Reality” mobile gameGbangahas launched an API, and it wants developers to hack away to actively modify gameplay, contribute game content and more. Gbanga is based around ‘gamifying’ your surroundings. As you walk around in real life, you’ll be presented with nearby challenges such as finding and collecting special items or competing with others for virtual ‘territory’. As you play, you can earn points to move up the leaderboard, with occasional ‘real’ sponsored prizes on offer too....

Repudois a service that allows you to place a gift for another person at a specific location, with that person having to travel to the location to access it, now the Dutch startup behind it is building awareness with a promotion related toa certain phonereleased later this week. Repudo’s app is available for iOS, Android and BlackBerry, allowing you to leave a gift in the form of a piece of text, a photograph, a video or an audio recording at a specific location....

Leveraging on the sudden surge of smartphone users in Korea, location-based services (LBS) is becoming one of the hottest trends in the country right now. The good news is that the government aims to support startups and app developers by easing the regulations on LBS and improving the precision of the service. A Location-based service will draw on locational information, including apps and websites that offer traffic information or emergency services....

TLDR:For under $50, you get a year of PlayStation Plus membership as well as a lifetime of access to the protection features of VPN Unlimited. If your vision of video gaming is firing up a console, popping in a cartridge or disc, and doing battle against the system…well, it’s now the 21st century. Cartridges and discs are mostly gone — and increasingly, all gaming is happening online. And as you’d expect, 2020 pushed that trend into overdrive....