New numbers out today: 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service like Foursquare or Gowalla to check in to certain locations or share their location with friends - both numbers are up from May 2011.
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These are the tumblings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project (Pew Internet for short). We study how Americans use the internet and technology in their daily lives. You can browse our (free!) reports—and steal our data—at pewinternet.org.
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