Delivered! app lets you easily track all your packages from an iPhone or an iPad

Amazon's breathtaking price-to-earnings ratio, shows that the growth of online shopping continues unabated, due to the sheer comfort of it, in comparison with traditional trips to the mall. This fact obviously means that most of us very often have packages to track, and keeping tab on all those orders is not an easy undertaking.
The Delivered! app for your iPhone or iPad comes to the rescue. It lets you track all your DHL, FedEx, LaserShip, OnTrac, UPS, UPS Freight, UPS Mail Innovations orders, and the good ol' USPS shipments, too. That happens from the comfort of one application, which sports a clean and simple interface, though you'd have to shell out $1.99 for the service.
Delivered! aggregates the tracking numbers from all shipping companies you have placed orders with, and informs you which package is where every step of the way. It also lets you sync packages between your different iOS device via iCloud, and sports notifications so that you don't miss an important tracking event.
Developer: Fernando SaragocaDownload: iTunesCategory: UtilitiesPrice: $1.99

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Did you know how phones track your location using Wi-Fi?

There's a GPS radio built into most modern smartphones. It is what the device uses to pin-point its own location, aided by a bunch of satellites that float above us, of course. This, however, isn't the only technique used to track the whereabouts of handsets and their users. Crowd-sourced Wi-Fi data also helps in the process. This is why if your phone's Wi-Fi is turned off, your mapping or navigation app might ask you to enable it for better accuracy.

But how does Wi-Fi know where we are anyway? Isn't its purpose to get us hooked to the internet? Well, while the latter is true, Wi-Fi can also be used to obtain a mobile device's position. That is possible thanks to the set of location services built into today's popular operating systems, namely Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. When enabled, these services scan the area for Wi-Fi networks and log their locations in a huge database. This database is shared across devices, which allows a smartphone or tablet to get its approximate location by knowing what Wi-Fi networks are around it. 

Location pin-pointing using Wi-Fi data is less accurate than GPS, but it could improve location accuracy in cases when satellite signal isn't excellent or totally missing

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Update to Google Wallet will allow you to track your online orders

An update to both the Android version and iOS version of Google Wallet, is adding a new feature that could be quite helpful. Called "Orders," the feature allows you to track online orders, receive a notification when they are shipped, and also keeps track of your past orders. The update is available only in the U.S. for Android users with Android 4.0 or higher, and iOS users running iOS 6.0 or higher.

Android users with Android 4.1 or higher have been able to track packages using Google Now, which receives the information from their email and shows them the status of any online orders on a card. Besides offering users the ability to tap and pay at participating retail outlets, Google Wallet will also keep track of any loyalty programs that users have signed up for.
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The app can also track a user's location to promote special offers available at nearby retailers. Those that don't want Google Wallet to have their current location can merely disable the feature.



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Google Wallet's new 'Orders' feature lets you track online shipments

Nice to see Google is keeping the regular Google Wallet updates coming. A few weeks after introducing loyalty card scans, the company is adding a feature called "Orders," which lets you track your online shipments using Google Wallet's iOS or Android app. In particular, you can view receipts for purchases you made online, as well as check the shipping status (Google says it's made arrangements with "primary package carriers in the US"). The roll-out appears to have already begun, though it could take a while for the update to reach some devices -- yours truly, for instance, is still waiting.

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