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 ...

Every device that touches the internet leaves tiny digital breadcrumbs behind. Chief among them is the IP address, a string of numbers that acts like the mailing label of your connection. With a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twitter is jumping on the geolocation bandwagon, with plans to let users geocode their posts and make the information accessible both on the main Twitter site and through external applications.

In an increasingly interconnected world, telecommunications companies have become providers of necessary services for personal, organizational, and business purposes. For these companies to provide ...

Smartphones, websites, and other connected devices (e.g., “wearables”) increasingly request that consumers provide their geo-location information. Geolocation information can refer to general ...

The Geolocation specification includes another call, particularly suitable for moving objects: navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(). The next example demonstrates how a change in location can be ...

As director of service provider marketing and business development at NetScout, John English has the mission to share with customers and industry analysts how NetScout solutions help all ...

This goes beyond simply not trusting location data for cybersecurity authentication. Geolocation is now used for a wide range of business reasons — but it shouldn’t be. Geolocation was once a glorious ...