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Such things as social media and geolocation are discussed in the closed-door sessions as well as in the hallways. A lot of attention is drawn towards the geolocation moves of big players like Nokia and Google. The two companies develop huge databases that associate location data with places in the ...

Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users' News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services. Twitter already has a geolocation feature that has been spotted in the wild. Meanwhile, social location upstart Foursquare will offer a free ...

Google Buzz was accorded a lot of attention for its potential as a disruption to Facebook and Twitter when Google officials unveiled it Feb. 9, but Google also put its stake in the ground for social location services with Buzz. Noting that location is a powerful signal for relevancy, Vic ...

Google Maps are without question one of the most useful Google applications. Recently, I’ve not only used it to find addresses, but also to scope out neighborhoods for a potential future move. In Canada it can get pretty cold in January, and if I can use Street View in Google ...

Apple announced that it would prevent third-party iPhone developers using its Core Location framework from designing apps that deliver targeted ads to iPhone users. Normally, the Core Location framework is used to build apps that leverage the users location, such as ones that locate restaurants or other nearby points of ...

Arent you sometimes surprised that those advertisements which you see if you surf seem to know your exact location? Blame your IP address. Your IP address is your identification to the cyberspace. It is your IP address that is to blame. It is your identity code on the internet. IP ...

Location-based data is tied to everything these days---from the GPS device in your car to your cell phone location and now even your tweets. However, the onslaught of location-based data is tasks enterprises with even more information to sort through. Join Smarter Technology's‚Eric Lundquist as he sits down with Berk ...

Location-based data is tied to everything these days---from the GPS device in your car to your cell phone location and now even your tweets. However, the onslaught of location-based data is tasks enterprises with even more information to sort through. Join Smarter Technology's‚Eric Lundquist as he sits down with Berk ...

Real-time search ruled the roost at Google's search event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., Dec. 7. However, Vic Gundotra, the vice president of engineering who has been spearheading Google's moves in the green field that is the mobile Web, warmed up the crowd with key mobile ...

There is a conversation happening online.  More than any other marketing method in the course of history, small business has the upper hand in the arena of social networking over big corporations. The intimate atmosphere that naturally occurs in social networking creates abundant opportunity to influence untapped markets.  The fact is ...

Google launches Location History and Location Alerts, features that will make the Google Latitude geolocation service infinitely more useful, while inviting scrutiny from privacy critics. Despite the obvious privacy safeguards of not sharing location history with other users and allowing users to scrub their location history, the new Latitude features ...

After years of dating and a recently announced pregnancy, The Office’s Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) are finally getting married. The couple selected Niagara Falls as the location for the nuptials — a location they hoped would deter their colleagues Dunder Mifflin from making the drive from Scranton. Unfortunately ...

TomTom, a provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, has delivered OpenLR, a new, open source dynamic location referencing technology as an open standard for the navigation, mapping and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Industry. - TomTom, a provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, has delivered OpenLR, a ...

"(President Obama) a deep-seated hatred for white people...this guy is, I believe, a racist." Glenn Beck, Fox & Friends Defenders of the president say that...

The recent uproar about the arrest of the distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates called to mind my own experiences with the Cambridge police during my years in college, several decades ago.

Google recently released Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application and currently supports iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 or above. For the time being, it's only available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Our Latitude web app provides all the core functionality you might expect: ...

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So I logged on my Gmail account today, and I noticed something different. Aside from the loads of email I got, there was this huge reminder from the Gmail team showing me the new features they just rolled out. Interesting huh? I, for one, loved the fact that the Gmail team ...