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 ...

Today Opera Software and Skyhook Wireless announced a new partnership to bring location information to web browsers. Using Skyhook's Wi-Fi positioning system and the W3C Geolocation API, web site ...

Dion Almaer blogged this morning about the new GeoLocation API in Gears. As a Geo-nut, I'm pretty impressed with how well it's implemented. The API is clean, and as Dion notes, with the community ...

Opera And Skyhook Wireless Bring Geolocation To The WebWith the new W3C Geolocation Application Programming Interface (API), Opera will make Skyhook Wireless' groundbreaking location platform ...

Mozilla Labs has announced the availability of Geode, an experimental Firefox extension that implements the W3C Geolocation Specification. Geode provides an early preview of the same location-aware ...

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 ...

Although a seemingly small step, by including support for the W3C’s geolocation API in it’s latest build, Google is now one step closer to its rumored (fabled?) tablet. This is because, in order to ...

One of the nifty new features that debuted in Firefox 3.5 last week was support for the W3C Geolocation API Specification, a Web standard that can fake a GPS-like effect by using clues such as the ...

Your browser may know exactly where you are, and tell everyone all about it.—with your permission, of course. Opera becomes the latest web browser platform and ...

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