Mojio’s new plug-in car module will link your car to the cloud, tracking the daily minutiae of driving. App developers like Glympse, Concur and IFTTT are then using that data to… Read more »
If hospitals can convince nurses, doctors and other staff to track their movements, everyone — patients included — stand to win. At Structure Connect, a hospital executive explained how her institution… Read more »
A recent report suggests that Whisper is tracking its users, even those who have opted out of geolocation services. The company says it’s “100 percent false.” Here’s the overview. Read more »
Facebook introduced a new location-based ad platform this week that should appeal to the mom-and-pop businesses that may have kept mobile advertising at arm’s length. Read more »
There’s a lot Skyhook can tell about you based on the Wi-Fi networks you cross everyday. It’s putting that info to work with a more refined set of geofencing and profiling… Read more »
Apple CEO Tim Cook made some big claims about his company’s privacy policies and took some veiled shots at Google’s, but all isn’t necessarily what it seems. Apple isn’t entirely good,… Read more »
The Spanish firm is also relocating its headquarters to New York, nearer to most of its client base — though it insists it will still be a European company. Read more »
Baidu now has exclusivity on using IndoorAtlas’s tech within China, while the Finnish company now has a bunch more money to play with when it comes to R&D and business development… Read more »
Michael Halbherr has stepped down as CEO of Nokia Here, the Finnish firm’s mapping and location-based services division, after just a few months in the role. He had been with Nokia… Read more »
Qualcomm’s iZat indoor geo-location technology may be buried inside millions of newer smartphones, but there are only 21 malls where you can use it today, and they’re all in South Korea. Read more »