Facebook Geolocation Feature Confirmed
Posted on May 10th, 2010 | 0 CommentsRumors have been doing the rounds is Facebook is onto something on the location front. TechCrunch has noted snippets of code from Facebook’s touchscreen version touch.facebook.com which point to a feature that can pull in information regarding the users’ latitude, longitude, altitude, heading and speed. In a more implicit confirmation of the same, the company [...]
Facebook Working On FourSquare Killer
Posted on January 29th, 2010 | 0 Comments“Checking-in” has suddenly become sexy and every startup in town is trying to incorporate it into their core service. After Yelp and Gowalla, Facebook too is trying to introduce a “check-in” feature to users of its mobile website. Checking in was first introduced by New York based startup, FourSquare. The service that offered reward points [...]
Microsoft’s Local Search Algorithm A Privacy Nightmare?
Posted on January 29th, 2010 | 0 CommentsLocal search is big and everyone is jumping into this segment. And for a fact, we all tend to realize that the local results from major search engines is nothing to brag about; except if you are in a high internet density area like New York or San Francisco. While companies have been devising different [...]
TeleNav Building GPS-Based Blogging System
Posted on January 26th, 2010 | 0 CommentsTelenav, the Sunnyvale based maker of GPS Navigator might probably be looking at location-based blogging as the next logical step in their product diversification. In a patent filed earlier this month, the inventors from the company have described a technology that will help users create and read location-based blog entries. What exactly is location-based blogging? [...]
IBM Jumps Into Location-Aware Technology
Posted on January 23rd, 2010 | 0 CommentsLocation and Geotagging seem to be the flavor of the season and IBM seems to be the latest entrant. In a new patent filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office, IBM has sought the credits for a location aware authorization technology. As the inventors put in their application, companies who offer laptops to their [...]