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Location and context-aware applications are a very hot topic.
Google has just launched the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers. The API can determine your location using nearby cell-towers or GPS for your mobile device or your computer’s IP address for your laptop. Google provides this service for free to both developers and users. The news on Techcrunch.
Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a geo-location platform. Fire Eagle allows allows developers to include positional data in their applications with a minimal amount of work. Fire Eagle allows users to send their positional data to any partner service from a supported device or website. The news on Techcrunch, and on Fortune.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:23 am
At the beginning, Google Geolocation API has determined the location for only Americans, for the other it has returned “unknown”. Later this service was advanced, but it often does not show results even for developed countries as yet. For such cases, there is a simple javascript extension to the Google API, which gives back the country of user.
http://www.wipmania.com/en/blog/google-geolocation-api/