Persistant Location Updates From iPhone to Fire Eagle

Location Based Services are hot. They add an extra layer of usefulness on top of the web sites and products we’re already using. The trick is keeping your location updated in the cloud as frequently, comfortably, and securely as possible. Fire Eagle fulfills the security requirement — brokering your whereabouts only to parties you’ve authorized. And iPhone applications like Sparrow and Voila make it a cinch to update Fire Eagle on-the-go. But they’re limited to manual updates as they can’t run in the background. (And you wouldn’t want them to because of the drain GPS has on battery life.) For …

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