Interest in geolocation soared after last November's ruling by a French judge requiring Yahoo!
But although targeted advertising is the most obvious application for geolocation, it has many other uses.
Geolocation apps are just taking off as more and more phones come with GPS built in.
Xobni is also interested in adding geolocation information and functionality into its products down the line.
Sensors in your phone have led to big disruptions in social such as geolocation.
You could try using a geolocation smartphone app like Foursquare, Gowalla or Facebook Places.
But he notes that geolocation is merely the latest example in a growing trend to impose local controls on the Internet.
Of course, geolocation also comes in handy when trying to find a lost car in a giant parking lot.
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The consumer shift online that Pichette talked about had more to do with holiday shopping than advanced geolocation services.
There were capabilities such as 3D animations, check-ins, and geolocation, but the user experience still was not quite good enough, Systrom says.
The iPhoto app, bundled gratis with every OS X-based Mac, touts a 'Places' section that automatically recognizes standardized geolocation data in photos.
The definition of personal information now also includes geolocation information, as well as photos, videos, and audio files that contain a child's image or voice.
Marie Alexander of Quova, a Silicon Valley geolocation firm, points out that goods and services exist in physical locations, and marketing is traditionally done on a geographical basis.
The company uses geolocation to determine which professionals are near you.
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Now financial firms can compete on their trading algorithms, market insights and knowledge without geolocation, colo relationships and big money prioritization creating an uneven playing field.
McCann, meanwhile, sees opportunity in helping CIOs compare the features and prices of different enterprise cloud services, as well as mashup geolocation capabilities with your contacts.
Stanton McCandlish of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a pressure group, says he expects other governments to adopt geolocation and other similar techniques to balkanise the Internet in coming years.
The Online Communication and Geolocation Protection Act would require a warrant before the government could demand access to any emails or to documents stored in the cloud.
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Also banned is the use of geolocation tracking without consumer consent and notice, and the use of fake software registration screens to collect personal information from consumers.
The Luv the Nug app combines geolocation data with its own database of food and beverage establishments to give users a choice of ice cream shops, restaurants, etc.
The famed photo sharing network -- now some 80 million users deep -- is detailing its latest user interface overhaul today, and geolocation is at the heart of it.
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When Facebook announced this week that it was getting into the geolocation business, I knew what that meant: A ton of outraged stories about the threat to our privacy.
It also uses geolocation data to determine which gas station you just visited to fill up and will automatically calculate how much you paid based on a database of stations.
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The implication is that to avoid breaking French law, websites around the world where such items are sold must prevent French users from gaining access and geolocation technology allows them to do just that.
These are just a few of the thousands of deals and promotions retailers will be offering on Black Friday and over the weekend with the help of geolocation apps like foursquare.
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For instance, HTML5 supports geolocation, makes Web forms easier to fill out on your phone, supports coding scripts that enable custom features, and it also loads multimedia elements faster in Web pages.
Experts say the next big trend in data is going to be geolocation, and the power to predict where you're going to go next and who you spend the most time with.
In particular, though, the system uses geolocation to track members of the household, so you an also do things like set the heat to come on when you're a mile away from home.
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As that process continues, providers will begin to differentiate through support, enterprise-class features such as more appropriate SLAs, geolocation services to assist in meeting regulatory and compliance needs, and baked-in social collaboration features.
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