Location-Awareness, self-aware

Google Brings Location-Awareness to Email
Washington Post - United States
Google appears to have a new obsession with knowing and broadcasting your current location. A week after announcing Latitude, which shares your location ...

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aware Show phonetics
adjective [after verb]
1 knowing that something exists, or having knowledge or experience of a particular thing:
[+ that] I wasn't even aware that he was ill.
Were you aware of the risks at the time?
She was well (= very) aware that he was married.
"Has Claude paid the phone bill?" "Not as far as I'm aware." (= I don't think so)
I suddenly became aware of (= started to notice) him looking at me.

2 having special interest in or experience of something and so being well informed of what is happening in that subject at the present time:
to be ecologically/politically aware
sexually aware


self-awareness Show phonetics
noun [U]
good knowledge and judgment about yourself

self-aware Show phonetics
adjective