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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...