Anyone seriously looking at the potentially giant Russian mobile market will have to go with GLONASS, the Russian counterpart of GPS, or they may be left out in the cold, reports Christopher Backeberg...

Devicescape, viewed by many as a competitor to Google and Skyhook in the location business, is introducing its SoftGPS solution to obtain co-ordinates for Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices with or without GPS.

In a longer-than-usual interview, TheWhereBusiness writer Christopher Backeberg asks for and receives some highly illuminating education on location technology from Manlio Allegra, CEO of Polaris Wireless...

Stratix has announced a partnership with ALK Technologies to integrate and deploy the CoPilot Live v8 next-generation mobile GPS systems with the Stratix Mobile Field Service solution.

A study by SMobile Systems, a leader in mobile security, has revealed that as many as 20 percent of the 48,000 apps in the Android store allow third-party access to sensitive or private information.

Representatives from some of the biggest names in mobile social networks agreed last week that the world needs a unified location database to aggregate and standardise the millions of indexed place locations, reports Christopher Backeberg...

Why is location changing the business of social networking? Because it is the missing link between virtual societies and the real world. Once I can identify the location of each member of my community, I can easily find ways to make money from it.

The value of location

Only days after the talk started about Facebook adding location-awareness, Twitter has added geo-location features to its Tweeting network.

WirelessWERX has demonstrated its SiteWERX Indoor Location System which will greatly improve emergency 911 response to mobile calls for help.

More than a year ago, researchers were urging the mobile industry to capitalise on the startling developments in geotagging. That message hasn't changed, writes Christopher Backeberg...