BANGALORE, INDIA: LBS (or 'Location based services') is the new buzzword when it comes to future applications, especially in the mobile domain. This is because it provides the users with an extra ...

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 ...

Abstract: It is a severe situation for the traditional Geolocation web applications to collect GIS data based on user IP addresses, WiFi APs, GSM&CDMA stations or GPS in a sustained and stable way.

Today Opera Software and Skyhook Wireless announced a new partnership to bring location information to web browsers. Using Skyhook's Wi-Fi positioning system and the W3C Geolocation API, web site ...

Dion Almaer blogged this morning about the new GeoLocation API in Gears. As a Geo-nut, I'm pretty impressed with how well it's implemented. The API is clean, and as Dion notes, with the community ...

The full questionnaire is at https://w3c.github.io/security-questionnaire/. For your convenience, a copy of the questionnaire's questions is included here in Markdown ...

One of the nifty new features that debuted in Firefox 3.5 last week was support for the W3C Geolocation API Specification, a Web standard that can fake a GPS-like effect by using clues such as the ...