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 ...

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 ...

Google Geolocation? Meanwhile, Google is working on a Location API, which provides the “geolocation” of a device running a Gears-enabled Web browser. According to the Google Code Web page ...

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Most popular web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox, implement geolocation services via the Geolocation API and help web applications access their users’ locations so ...

Computer security company Absolute Software Corporation is extending its products to use Google Maps to provide improved device geolocation tracking in its Absolute Computrace product. The partnership ...

Not to be outdone, Google released a Geolocation API for Windows Mobile phones running Google Gears. Why are browser-based geolocation Web services a big deal? New ReadWriteWeb writer Rick Turoczy ...

As we first reported last night, Twitter appeared to have turned on at least part of its new Geolocation API. Today, the company has confirmed the roll out on its API Announcement Google Group page.

Geolocation, Elevation, and Time Zone APIs. This price will stay in place until developers pass 100,000 requests per day. Beyond that large number, developers will need to contact Google to ...