News Digital Media today announced the launch of specially designed versions of its websites for the Apple iPhone.

As well as being able to view News Digital Media’s entire portfolio of websites, iPhone users can access iPhone optimised versions of:

- Leading news and information website, NEWS.com.au
- Local business directory, truelocal.com.au
- Music and entertainment ticketing website, moshtix.com.au

To access News Digital Media’s sites on the iPhone, users simply need to enter the standard site URLs into their iPhone web browser.

I can’t get to an iPhone optimised website for TrueLocal, News.com.au or Moshtix on my iPod Touch – so they must be only redirecting for 3G iPhones.

That makes sense for Truelocal if they’re hinging on a location capability (which sounds like cell-tower positioning and not GPS), but i’d expect the others to work.

Source: NEWS DIGITAL MEDIA LAUNCH IPHONE-OPTIMISED VERSIONS OF THEIR LEADING WEBSITES

See your location on the map, with or without GPS. Save time and tedious keystrokes finding where you are, what’s around you, and how to get there. Watch the video on the right to see how it works.

Press “0″ and look for the blue dot:

or

Google Maps with My Location (beta)

While not quite high on the accuracy chart, the new application uses information broadcasted from cell towers and triangulates your approximate location. (Because of how the application estimates your location, a certain amount of information is sent to Google servers, and if you have privacy concerns, then you can turn the My Location feature off in your maps application.)

With Google’s My Location, Who Needs a GPS? – GigaOM

I tried upstairs at home and got a location 2.2km away, then I tried downstairs and got a location 500m away. I tried at work and got a position 1.5km away.
It’s nice and fast, and they don’t bother to render the street name on the interface, it’s just a dot and the semi-transparent circle that indicates approximation. The accompanying message is “Your location within 5000 metres”.

Google says 1000m on average, but that could be for the U.S. and UK.

You can use the approximate location in directions – there’s a checkbox for “GPS Location” that will also reference the cell-based location if there’s no GPS available.