Locle, the mobile social location application has launched a set of APIs for third parties to leverage their location platform. Obviously this means that application developers can add location into ...

Earlier this week, Facebook brought over status update features to apps. Developers now have the ability to let users add friends, location, and share photos directly from apps. The social networking ...

Location services provider Skyhook — best known for popularizing the concept of Wi-Fi location on phones and for a public spat with Google — has introduced version 4.6 of its mobile SDK this morning.

The digital privacy world was rocked late Thursday evening when The New York Times reported on Securus, a prison telecom company that has a service enabling law enforcement officers to locate most ...

Google Play Service’s Location APIs give you an easy way of displaying the user’s current location, but there’s only so much value you can get out of a “You Are Here”-style marker on a Google Map! The ...

Glympse has been in the news for its deals with the likes of Ford, Mercedes Benz and BMW/Mini to integrate its location-sharing and tracking technology into in-car systems on connected automobiles.

Today Sam Liang, former lead architect for Google’s locations platform, is launching an API to give mobile app developers a way to more precisely track a users location. The release is the next step ...

There has been a growing debate about the utility of location-based applications. Some say they are the future of the gaming industry, while others don’t think that location-based apps are meeting ...

First thing you should do is to register for a ThingSpeak account. It is, at the time of writing, completely free. After registration, you will need to create a channel. You can have multiple channels ...

A Russian-developed app called “Girls Around Me” lets you see recent Foursquare check-ins in your vicinity (categorized by gender) and then gives you a quick like to that person’s Facebook profile — ...