location
Phones
Pre Tracks Your Location And Tells Palm All About It
7:16AM Matt Buchanan | Palm Pre’s webOS, besides juggling your life or whatever that creepy girl says, sends information back to the mothership periodically, like what apps you’ve installed and how much you’ve used ‘em. And location data. Wait. What? More »
Software
Location Finding With Google Maps Comes To Chrome And Firefox
6:20AM Sean Fallon | If you are running Chrome 2.0+ or FireFox 3.5+ you will notice a dot in the upper left corner of Google Maps that should, theoretically, be able to locate your position using the W3C Geolocation API. More »
GPS
DHL Putting Serious GPS Tracking Systems On Packages
11:20AM Wilson Rothman | DHL is apparently outfitting cargo containers with sensors to monitor GPS location, temperature, humidity, impact, vibration and light exposure. Cool, but with frills like this, it’s no wonder their US operation went busto. [BBG] More »
GPS
The Epson Infineon GPS Chip Is Small Enough to Destroy Privacy Forever
11:40PM Mark Wilson | How small does a GPS chip get in its 12th round of development? Look at the match stick. More »
Software
Gmail Offering Automatic Location-Based Signatures
5:00AM Mark Wilson | If you’re a world traveller, or even if you’re travelling abroad for the first time and need absolutely everyone to know, Gmail now offers an option to include your location in the signature. More »
Software
Google Latitude: Friend Finding Maps on Smartphones and PCs
3:01PM Brian Lam | Google’s released Latitude, a Maps tool that allows for automatic tracking of friends in real time, using a laptop, Symbian 60, Blackberry, WinMo and soon, iPhone or Android. More »
Software
Geode Plug-In Makes Firefox Location-Aware
4:15AM Sean Fallon | Mozilla Labs has unveiled Geode—a plugin that will take advantage of the W3C Geolocation Spec in Firefox 3.1. The plan is to make the browser location-aware so that somewhere down the line, you could visit a site like Yelp on your laptop in a strange town and it will automatically find your location and offer nearby restaurant suggestions and directions. Mozilla also offered other possible examples like: RSS readers that adjust based on whether or not your are at work or at home, location-restricted logins and websites that deliver news based on your physical location. More »
Hardware
Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips to Have Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning Built-In
3:40AM John Mahoney | Broadcom already makes a boatload of the GPS chips found in mobile phones and other location-aware gadgets, and now they’re adding Skyhook’s Wi-Fi positioning service to most of their mobile Wi-Fi chipsets, spreading the location-based love even without GPS. This is how iPhone regular finds your location in addition to using nearby cell towers (Skyhook IDs your position by comparing to those of known hotspot SSIDs in the vicinity), so look for even more location-based services coming to more phones in the future. [CNet] More »
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