The popular mobile IM app Palringo has added live location information to the latest version of its application - Palringo Local, allowing users to display their location alongside their status.

Palringo enables vocal instant messaging and picture messaging, as well as text-based instant messaging. Knowing the location of contacts adds further richness to the experience and brings benefits in all sorts of scenarios. For example, it may help simply when meeting a friend, or in more sophisticated ways such as assessing whether a conversation will be cheaper to conduct via Palringo than by phone, if to call someone will clearly cause them to incur roaming charges. Palringo is extremely cost-effective to use.

Palringo Local is already available for Windows Mobile and Windows XP/Vista, and will be delivered as an automatic update for existing users. Other platforms will get the Local support by the end of this year — including Symbian OS-based phones, Java, BlackBerry and iPhone .