In a not-to-be-missed saga of impending world domination, Christopher Backeberg extracts the essence of about a zillion news reports, reviews and analyses on the launch of Facebook Places last week and its implications for location-based services (LBS)...

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...

Google has started encouraging developers to produce location-based check-in applications through the Google Places API.

Blue Umbrella, an R&D company based in Florida, has announced an indoor navigation solution which it believes will have "a game-changing impact" on the navigation market.

TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has announced a 911 femtocell solution for emergency services attending to calls from remote areas.

Two countries on opposite sides of the world, Italy and Australia, have come under pressure to improve the quality of their emergency mobile location services.

The latest spying app for smartphones shows how sophisticated mobile snooping has become. It also raises issues of ethics and counter-measures, reports Christopher Backeberg...

Motolingo has announced a location-aware smartphone app, Motoriety GPS, that allows fleet managers to track and monitor "distracted drivers".

Mophoto, a location-based social networking app from ChoiceVendor, adds a new, visual element to the check-in system which has become popular on other social networks such as Foursquare and Gowalla. With Mophoto, users check in by posting geotagged photographs.

People tracking continues to turn out new and better applications, and most of them are fine examples of mobile technology being put to excellent social use. Christopher Backeberg checks who's tracking what...