Its Boston location alone, a six-hour plane ride away, would have been a turnoff.

FORBES: The wild bunch

There are tens of thousands of them, but their location is mostly unknown: that alone creates an argument for caution, say supporters of a moratorium.

ECONOMIST: Marine conservation

The new technology platform can be embedded in an existing design or operate as a stand-alone unit, with options to compute the location locally or transmit the information to a remote system which can process the data before visualising it on a smartphone app.

ENGADGET: Cambridge Consultants develops indoor tech to pick up where GPS drops off

There are 6, 000 location-based apps for the Apple iPhone alone, allowing users to share photos, videos and reviews.

FORBES: A Look At The Boom In Location-Based Services

It starts with a lot of bravado, joking about their inability to commit to a location for more than three months, let alone a person.

FORBES: Can You Make A Relationship A Reality On The Road?

Nokia has the pieces it needs to begin integrating GPS and cellular communication into all kinds of devices that will offer better real-time traffic, weather and location Web services than a single-function GPS alone can.

FORBES: Nokia Redraws The Map