BANGALORE, INDIA: LBS (or 'Location based services') is the new buzzword when it comes to future applications, especially in the mobile domain. This is because it provides the users with an extra ...

IP address tracking has always been depicted as the ultimate tool for tracking movie locations. There is always a geek who punches in the numbers and gets the device’s exact location. In reality, IP ...

One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

In its never-ending quest to dominate the global mapping scene, Google has just rolled out a new pair of APIs designed to help organizations build their own location-enabled applications. The first is ...

Detecting the location of your website’s users is useful for a variety of reasons. You might, for instance, want to display different content, perhaps in different languages for people from different ...

After hinting that it would do so last June, Google’s mobile team has released a Geolocation API for Google Gears. This works both on mobile phones and laptops running Gears, but developers will find ...

First go read Greg Sterling's write up at Search Engine Land named Location in the Browser: What Does It Mean? Now that you read that, you will realize that the implication of Google adding ...

Twitter has just announced the introduction of a GeoLocation API allowing for developers to narrow tweets down to specific locations. Until now, the only locational aspect to a tweet was where the ...