Google has upgraded with a geolocation API its Gears browser plug-in, which is designed to let users work with Web-based applications when they aren’t online. The new API (application programming ...

Google has hopped on the WiFi positioning bandwagon by adding support for an undisclosed database of WiFi network locations to its Gears Geolocation API. Google said on its Code Blog that the service ...

With all the hullabaloo around Apple’s efforts in the mapping realm, Google got a nice little free PR kickback for the quality of its own Maps offering. Even the most cynical of anti-Googlers would ...

Computer security company Absolute Software Corporation is extending its products to use Google Maps to provide improved device geolocation tracking in its Absolute Computrace product. The partnership ...

The new update to Google Gears will now work with Location Based Services. Up until now, this has really been used with cell phones, such as Google Maps, to find things close to the phones ...