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 ...

Google has upgraded with a geolocation API its Gears browser plug-in, which is designed to let users work with Web-based applications when they aren’t online. The new API (application programming ...

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 ...

Google has hopped on the WiFi positioning bandwagon by adding support for an undisclosed database of WiFi network locations to its Gears Geolocation API. Google said on its Code Blog that the service ...

No audio available for this content. Computer security company Absolute Software Corporation is extending its products to use Google Maps to provide improved device geolocation tracking in its ...

While no surprise to us – we first reported this in an interview with Google’s Steve Lee at SXSW and then again predicted this release on Sunday – the release of the Latitude API further distances ...

Google Inc. has launched Gears Geolocation, an API for mobile and desktop browsers to provide location-based services. Two third-party developers are launching the first location-enabled Web ...

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