The social media platform changed its privacy policy last month, inviting users to allow it to track their specific location.

State legislatures are weighing a wave of protections for sensitive geolocation data that would redefine comprehensive ...

Steven Cook is founder of Fortune CMO, a consulting firm. Miten Sampat is VP of product strategy at Quova, a unit of Neustar. The seeming ubiquity of e-commerce - the ability to buy anything, from ...

Now, more American adults use mobile devices than traditional computers when searching for local products and services. Geolocation is a marketing method that seeks to use mobile technology to push ...

In today's digital landscape, where transactions occur instantaneously, ensuring security has become a top priority for businesses. One innovative method gaining momentum in fraud detection is the use ...

Facebook wants to know “What’s on your mind?” Twitter asks “What’s happening?” But that’s getting old already. The burning question for the next wave of social networking is “Where are you?”–and ...

No audio available for this content. The surveyor has been known throughout history for many things: part expert measurer, part historian, part lawyer and part geographer. These attributes have led ...

One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...

Geosense shows up as a location sensor in the Location and Other Sensors pane in Control Panel. It would be downright nutty to put a GPS sensor inside your desktop (unless maybe you’re sporting one of ...