If you’ve ever used a search engine to look for a nearby dry cleaner or restaurant to be served up a list of relevant options in your area, then you’ve most likely experienced IP geolocation at work.

Geolocation isn’t a recent development. In fact, the geolocation revolution goes back to 2005 after a number of paradigm-shifting startups like fwix, Loopt, Ditto, Blockboard, Everyblock and Whrrl ...

The rivalry between Gowalla and Foursquare might seem to define the nascent geolocation market. Hold your horses: Let's see what Facebook is cooking up. Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is ...

This goes beyond simply not trusting location data for cybersecurity authentication. Geolocation is now used for a wide range of business reasons — but it shouldn’t be. Geolocation was once a glorious ...

Now, more American adults use mobile devices than traditional computers when searching for local products and services. Geolocation is a marketing method that seeks to use mobile technology to push ...

Arguments surrounding geolocation technology can be rather divisive and controversial at times, although one could argue that it has been designed to help improve user experience in a number of ways.

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has ordered mobile carriers to explain what geolocation data they collect from customers and how they use it. Rosenworcel's probe could ...

I mean, come on. You're all so surprised that your iOS device, with all of its cool geolocation-based, "There's an App for That" stuff that you see on all the commercials actually caches GPS and cell ...