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Kartograph is a fresh new mapping toolkit for creating interactive maps using JavaScript, Python and SVG. It was especially designed to be used by designers, which want to spice up their maps with special effects, new coloring schemes and 3D perspectives. One of Kartograph's most important feature is its indep... |
14 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Google is making it a bit easier to get directions in Google Maps. Mobile users have found it convenient to have their location set as the starting point when getting directions. This saves time and makes sense in most cases.
Now, courtesy of modern browsers and geolocation, desktop users now have access to the s... |
4 October 2011
04:43 GMT |
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With GPS sensors built into everything and more and more services, websites and apps taking advantage of location data, a big number of innovative, or at least fun, services have surfaced. But with location data so easily attainable comes a greater need for privacy precautions.
A lot of people are sensitive about ... |
20 September 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has imposed restrictions on the use of its geographic location database after a security researcher revealed that it can be abused to track where people have been.Last Friday, Stanford security researcher Elie Bursztein announced that in the course of preparing for his upcoming Black Hat talk on computer fo... |
4 August 2011
06:58 GMT |
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SimpleGeo, a company that offers location services and data, has updated its pricing structure, dropping the free version, saying that it needs to adjust its pricing to future products now in the works.
SimpleGeo offers a huge database of places via APIs but also offers several location-related services.
"After... |
2 August 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Google talks a lot about data portability and, for the most part, tries to own up to that talk. There are easy ways of getting most of your data out of many Google services. One of the latest entries, though the announcement doesn't do a good job at explaining this aspect, is Google Places which now has a feed o... |
19 May 2011
10:20 GMT |
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With intellectual property becoming more and more important and powerful, thanks to the work of a few corporations and industries interested in it being so, it's great to see that some companies and developers can still find the value in freeing things up. SimpleGeo, a company that focuses on location services a... |
22 April 2011
11:50 GMT |
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Researchers have different opinions regarding the purpose of an iPhone file storing location data, but F-Secure experts point out that such information gets sent to Apple twice a day.A few days ago, researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan held a presentation at the Where 2.0 Conference where they revealed that iOS... |
22 April 2011
02:09 GMT |
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Patents come easy when you're a multi-billion dollar company. Facebook just scored a patent that covers location services. The patent, as is almost always the case, is very broad and any number of services could be threatened by it, including Google Latitude, Foursquare, Gowalla and so on. The patent in question... |
7 October 2010
08:50 GMT |
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While there's been plenty of talk about the hot startups in the geolocation game, Foursquare in particular, or about Facebook recent entry in the space, Google has one of the oldest and still one of the most popular location-based services out there, Latitude. And now, you can check it out on your desktop as wel... |
7 October 2010
04:15 GMT |
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Facebook’s move in the location-based services market is apparently very close to launch. The latest rumors say the release date is within weeks. While it has been known that Facebook is working on a geolocation feature, the launch date as a well as the specifics of the product have not been revealed. Now Cnet ... |
12 August 2010
02:22 GMT |
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A computer hacker revealed how Google's Street View data can be abused to pinpoint someone's physical location without relying on IP address information. The attack exploits a variety of security issues and loopholes in otherwise legitimate services and systems.The new technique was demoed last week at the ... |
3 August 2010
04:15 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has just announced the availability of a new service for its BlackBerry users, namely Geolocation, which is being released as part of the company's Locate Service. According to the leading smartphone designer, the new feature is meant to offer a location fix within... |
20 July 2010
07:55 GMT |
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Foursqure has been very talked about recently and the location-based service is the most popular, at least in terms of media attention, product of its kind. And all the attention has been paying off, Foursquare now has over two million users, having passed the one million mark just three months ago. The growth rate i... |
12 July 2010
06:36 GMT |
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After offering a steady flow of Release Candidate development snapshots since the start of this week, Opera Software has wrapped up the latest version of its browser. Opera 10.60 Final Build 3445 is now available for download. The Windows, Mac OS X and Linux releases were all synchronized. According to the browser ma... |
1 July 2010
04:38 GMT |
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There’s been a lot of activity surrounding Foursquare lately and certainly a lot of hype. The service has become the front-runner in the new wave of location-based services and it managed to get the attention of investors and of some big-name companies, like Yahoo and Facebook. With rumors of acquisitions flyin... |
30 June 2010
04:16 GMT |
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Yahoo’s interest in the web geolocation market is becoming clearer and clearer. While it didn’t manage to buy Foursquare, it did buy an Indonesian startup that provides a very similar service. And now it’s launching Yahoo PlaceFinder, an API / web service aimed at developers building location featur... |
23 June 2010
06:03 GMT |
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Location is becoming a big trend online, even though the technology and dedicated services aren’t exactly mainstream yet. But that is changing and Twitter’s latest announcement only helps. The microblogging site is launching a new location feature dubbed Twitter Places, which, as the name implies, enables... |
15 June 2010
04:30 GMT |
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SourceForge, the world’s biggest open-source code repository, has rolled out brand new statistics tools for their users. Project owners and normal site visitors alike can now view accurate and detailed statistics about the downloads timeline, location and the user's operating system.The company has kept di... |
1 June 2010
04:21 GMT |
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There is a lot of hype over location-aware services. It seems like the entire web wants to factor in your location and it’s hard to argue with the benefits this brings. Services can be catered specifically to you and knowing where you are enables plenty of them to offer more relevant results. Without browser su... |
1 May 2010
07:21 GMT |
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The amazing Chrome developers at Google Inc., announced today (April 9th) the immediate availability for testing of the Google Chrome 5.0.371.0 Alpha web browser for Linux. Windows and Mac operating systems. The new development release comes with great, new features, such as support for Geolocation, HTML5 fixes, Omni... |
9 April 2010
06:58 GMT |
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Google's approach to software development, iterate fast and often, means that small, new features and updates creep in all the time. This is true for Google Chrome too, the developer build is updated almost once a week and the changes are rarely worth noticing. The latest update, though, Google Chrome 5.0.371.0 ... |
9 April 2010
05:00 GMT |
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If the solid rumor that Facebook is getting into geolocation soon hasn't been enough to make it clear that location is going to be very big very soon, it's now clear that Twitter is just about to enable geolocation features on Twitter.com, perhaps as soon as this week. The features went live for a short per... |
10 March 2010
10:51 GMT |
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A few days after it introduced an update to its Beta channel, Google has made available for download a new testing release of the next major iteration of its open source browser. Google Chrome 5.0.342.1 is currently available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux, bringing to the table new features that devs need ... |
5 March 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Navizon Inc. announced recently the signing of a licensing agreement with Redmond-based software giant Microsoft for the use of Navizon’s global location database to deliver services to mobile phone users. According to the company, the new agreement with Microsoft is expected to enhance the experience users of... |
3 March 2010
03:36 GMT |
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The first Beta development milestone of the next iteration of Opera is just around the corner. At the end of the past week, Opera 10.50 Build 3228 became available for download. According to Opera Software, Build 3228 is extremely close to the Official beta build of Opera 10.50, albeit not the fully-fledged Beta just... |
8 February 2010
02:57 GMT |
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Twitter already owns the real-time information game and now it's making a play in another hot web trend, local info. Some users have begun noticing a new feature dubbed Local Trends, which does exactly what you'd expect: it lists the trending topics in your area as opposed to globally. Twitter has confirmed... |
23 January 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Everyone is becoming more and more interested in geolocation and for good reason. Besides the hype that surrounds most new technologies, geolocation has a lot of applications and is set to transform the way we use the web in a profound manner. Twitter, which is getting its fair share of hype on its own, is betting b... |
28 December 2009
04:19 GMT |
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Geolocation is quickly moving from a hyped up concept to reality as various services are beginning to add location features. Twitter has just rolled out support in its API very recently and now Google is implementing a new method of providing location information inside the search results. The search engine announce... |
2 December 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Location is one of the major trends online and, in a few years time, most services will include some sort of functionality based on location information. Ever the trend setter, Twitter has jumped on the bandwagon and has implemented a geolocation API for third-party services, meaning that users can choose to send th... |
30 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Location services are becoming increasingly popular and, with the right devices and tools to take advantage of, they're also becoming more useful. Twitter has been working on location features for a couple of months now and the microblogging service has finally enabled them, but for now, only for third-party de... |
20 November 2009
07:20 GMT |
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Location is all the rage right now, thanks, in no small part, to the growing popularity of web-enabled mobile devices with GPS features. There are a couple of rather popular location services, like Foursquares and Loopt, Google has Latitude, and even Twitter has integrated location into its service. Not wanting to b... |
13 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Location-based services are one of the newer web trends, along with the real-time web, but, while real time gets more hype, location may actually prove to be more important and practical in the long term. With the spread of mobile devices, phones, netbooks, laptops, the works, location is becoming increasingly import... |
2 October 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Twitter has been touting the upcoming geolocation feature for a while now. Announced more than a month ago, the feature was set to become live, for developers at least, sometime last week but some issues pushed it back several days. It now appears to be live, despite Twitter not making any actual announcement, with t... |
1 October 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Twitter announced almost a month ago that it would allow users to add geolocation data to their tweets. The feature was initially scheduled to become live yesterday but Twitter decided to push it back as it wasn't quite ready for the prime time. Still, the geolocation data feature should be launched within a few... |
24 September 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Location-aware services are starting to gather steam. Thanks to a number of things coming together, GPS-enabled mobile devices, web browsers with geolocation and an increasingly mobile Internet population, everything is set for this type of services to take off. But few of the existing ones have the size or the popul... |
21 August 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Google Maps can be a very useful tool and for some it has become a daily necessity. But like any other product in the world it isn't perfect and one of the most common features people were asking for was the possibility to do several searches at the same time. Finally, Google listened to its users and introduced... |
23 July 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Geolocation is a popular topic these days as more people are using mobile devices or laptops to browse the Internet wherever they may be, not just at the office or at home. One of the major new features in Firefox 3.5, though it didn't get too much notice, and also available in Chrome or other browsers with the ... |
10 July 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Geolocation is a much touted feature of the upcoming Firefox 3.5. But it isn't talked about for no reason, since geolocation is becoming more and more important today as mobile Internet connections are getting faster and there are a multitude of devices to take advantage of those speeds. As part of the ‘Fi... |
10 June 2009
04:40 GMT |
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While building the first Beta for Firefox 3.1 codenamed Shiretoko, Mozilla already revealed that it was adding geolocation capabilities to the browser, courtesy of Doug Turner, the developer of Geolocation Services for v3.1. But ahead of Shiretoko, Mozilla Labs has made available Geode, an add-on put together by... |
8 October 2008
11:12 GMT |
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