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 ...

Setting: Large ballroom in Moscone. Large enough that two sets of projected screens are on, one up front, and one pair amidset. Crowded, one or two open seats per long row. Two bright-shirted Google ...

Google Latitude has 3 million active users, but you wouldn’t know it by the amount of buzz they get in the location space these days. (Which is to say, just about none.) The problem is that Latitude ...

Editor’s note: Jonathan Barouch is the founder and CEO of location-based startup Roamz, developer of social media business product Local Measure. Follow him on Twitter @jbarouch. Foursquare has become ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...