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[Engadget Mobile] New Google API lets mobile sites track you down: That's what Google's hoping to do with its new Gears Geolocation API, which third parties can plug into their sites and automatically take advantage of both tower and GPS-based positioning. It only works on Internet Explorer on WinMo pieces at the moment, but naturally, they're looking to spread it far and wide over time.

[Mobile Marketer Homepage Feed] Google announces new Gears Geolocation API for mobile Web: “IT could be clever if Facebook or other social networks could come up with an application that’s free and ad-supported and convince people that there’s a benefit, let them know who’s around them at that time and make money on it through targeted advertising.”

 [programmableweb] Google’s New Geolocation API for Gears: The Javascript-based API does require users to download the Google Gears extension (if they haven’t already), and the API may not gain widespread adoption until Google Gears is supported on a broader basis (i.e., non-Windows Mobile devices). However, this is an interesting move by Google, and by releasing the API as part of Gears, Google has provided yet another API to an existing developer base.

 [themes4bb.com] Get Google Gears and now you can get Geolocation: Websites using this API can provide targeted information based upon your current location. The API determines your location using GPS or cell phone triangulation for cell phones and the IP address for desktop browsers.

 [www.tmesolutions.co.uk - Marketing News] Google Gears API Now Does Geolocation: 'Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don't have GPS. Today we're launching the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers, while two third-party .

[wmexperts] Google Gears bringing Geolocation to mobile Web: In cases where a GPS signal can't be acquired (such as indoors), Google Maps for mobile will use a secondary location method to determine your location, even if your phone has GPS functionality.

 [Google Blogoscoped] Google Releases Geolocation Features for Ajax API, Gears: In other geolocation news, Google released a Geolocation module for their Gears API. Google in their blog post on this says the data returned here is more precise than what the Ajax API delivers, as it “can use the cell-ID of nearby .

 [Ajaxian » Front Page] YouTube Uploader now using Gears, and what people missed in Gears 0.4: Sometimes the Geolocation API will return that it can’t find a location, especially if you are on a private Wifi network that has not been mapped.

[Ajax Blog] YouTube Uploader now using Gears, and what people missed in Gears 0.4: var geolocation = google.gears.factory.create('beta.geolocation');. if (!geolocation.getPermission('Upload Movie Tool', '',. 'This sample can use your '. + 'geographic coordinates in order to tag ' ...

[informationweek Weblog] Google Offers Up Gears Geolocation API To Make Web Sites Location ...: Google thinks it would be valuable to have any Web site you visit -- whether on your phone or PC -- know where you are. This way, you could receive information that is relevant to your location.

[Ajax Blog] navigator.geolocation: Using the W3C Geolocation API today: The Gears API gives you an additional gearsAddress object attached to the resulting position object. This can contain a lot of information on the resulting area (street address to city to …) however for certain providers the API returns that as null, the same as the W3C standard

 [Digg / upcoming] Official Google Mobile Blog: New Gears Geolocation API power: Awesome Gears-enabled geolocation GPS-killer for mobile apps. Let's hope it spreads to more mobile platforms.

 [mediabistro.com: MobileAppsToday] Google Gears Geolocation API: It does this by storing information from the web (Google Docs, for example) on your local device (notebook or smartphone). This new Gears Geolocation API is a mechanism that software developers can use to use either GPS or cell tower triangulation to get location information and use it with an application.

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