A nasty piece of spyware that contains a secret GPS location tracker has been found inside an Android mobile game called Tapsnake. Google is expected to pull the game from its Android app store.

StarChase has launched a GPS device for covert or overt tracking of vehicles, people, packages or vitually anything else, claiming: "If it moves, we can track it."

Lone Guardian has launched Guardian2, the second generation of its personal tracking and location devices.

In a move that parents around the world may applaud, South Korea has begun its campaign to give every child a GPS beeper to help protect them against paedophiles.

INTERVIEW: Dr Martin Feuerstein, CTO of Polaris Wireless, on the current FCC proceedings.

Location-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla and MyTown have paved the way for dedicated, location-based dating networks, and some of them are even making money. Christopher Backeberg puts on his lounge lizard suit and explores some of the dating venues...

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.

Dramatic improvements in location technology, digital mapping and data transfer speed are pointing the way to huge and potentially lucrative changes in location-based services (LBS), reports Christopher Backeberg...

A young Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher has shown that GPS can be applied commercially to better deal with crowd or shopper management, and help with evaluating patient recovery following surgery.

Key executives from the tracking industry's top companies will assemble at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza in Chicago next week for the inaugural People Tracking & Location USA conference.