[Previous] Nokia completes Plazes acquisition - Directions Magazine...

 [Next] Facebook launches “Places” geolocation featu...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Ken's Tech Tips] Facebook launches “Places” geolocation feature on UK iPhones and ...: This will require Facebook to ask you for permission every time they want to know where you are. Once you’ve given Facebook permission to determine your location, you are presented with a list of local businesses and places in your area.

[The BAT Channel] Skyhook Sues Google Over Android Geolocation Monopoly Claims « The ...: The lawsuit claims that Google prevented Android phone makers from using Skyhook’s positioning technology, such as its Wi-Fi triangulation, and instead required them to use Google’s own solution. Motorola is reported to have been forced to pull Skyhook from its device in order to pass Google’s compliance tests and weren’t given the option of tuning the Skyhook software in order to meet the guidelines.

[ProgrammableWeb] Enterprise-level IP Geolocation Made Available Via API: GPS-enabled smartphones and WiFi Geolocation offer better precision, but those location methods can be overkill for some applications. They can also be impractical when most visits are generated from home computers.

[W3C Compliant] W3C Invites Implementations of Geolocation API Specification | W3C ...: The Geolocation Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Geolocation API Specification. The Geolocation API defines a high-level interface to location information associated only with the device hosting the .

[TechNews AM] Skyhook sues Google for monopolizing Android geolocation ...: A Boston-based lawsuit accused Google of preventing Android phone makers from using Skyhook's positioning, such as its Wi-Fi triangulation, and instead requiring them to use Google's own. Motorola was supposedly forced to pull Skyhook from its devices to pass Google's compliance tests and wasn't even given the option of tuning the Skyhook software to meet the guidelines....

[Dev Opera Articles] How to use the W3C Geolocation API - Opera Developer Community: You can do this with JavaScript to query the browser and see if it supports the navigator.geolocation property. For a one-shot determination of the user's location, you can use the navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition() function which, if successful, will call whichever success callback function you choose.

[~bohwaz/blog/] Custom Geolocation API for Opera (replacing Google) - ~bohwaz/blog/: New Opera version comes with geolocation ability (based on W3C Geolocation API), which is an interesting feature, but as most of the web browsers, they get your location from Google. In other words, each time a page requests your location, the browser makes a request to Google with different datas (wifi networks around you, your IP address, and other stuff) to know where your are.

[BlackBerry Developer's Blog] Locate Service Update Provides GPS-Free Location Queries ...: Although the accuracy of the fixes obtained from the Geolocation service may not always be as high as with GPS, it has use cases for apps that require highly accurate GPS fixes as well as apps that do not. Apps that require high accuracy can use this service to quickly show the user an approximate location while it waits for a more accurate location fix using GPS.

[Software Journal] Opera 10.60 is out. Supports Geolocation and Google WebM now.: WiFi recognition works with GLS by gathering and then sending a list of all nearby wireless networks including MAC (Media Access Control) address, SSID (Service set identifier) name, and signal strength, which returns your coordinates.

[iBlogAuto] FCC Set to Tackle \'White Spaces,\' or \'Wi-Fi on Steroids ...: Almost two years after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a rule that gave conditional support to the production of “white spaces” devices, the agency is scheduled next week to formalize their use a move that could drastically expand wireless Internet access in the U.S.

[XaaB - Anything as a Blog] Safari5 Unable To Get Geolocation « XaaB - Anything as a Blog: After a bit of digging around, It turns out Safari5 is using CoreLocation (wifi triangulation) to get geolocation data and it is only works when Wifi is ON. If you are using Safari5 on PC just turn on your wireless and if you are using Mac, just turn on Airport.

[ProgrammableWeb: API Feed] Google Gears Geolocation API Gets WiFi: [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGoogle has just announced a nice addition to the Google Gears Geolocation API: the ability to use WiFi on laptops to locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world. We originally covered the GeoLocation API back in August, when Google first announced the release of the API for use in mobile devices to get a more precise estimate of a user’s location.

[Gadget Reviews] Skyhook Sues Google Over Android Geolocation Monopoly ClaimsGadget ...: exclude competitors for geolocation services. The lawsuit claims that Google prevented Android phone makers from using Skyhook's positioning technology, such as its Wi-Fi triangulation, and instead required them to use Google's own solution .

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Geolocation, Geotags.org