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Google Gears Can Now Divine Your Laptop's Precise Location Using Wi-Fi [Google]
gizmodo.com - 10/22/2008
Google Gears Can Now Divine Your Laptop's Precise Location Using Wi-Fi [Google]
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Google Gears, the gears that power the tubes (really a browser plug-in that lets you work in web apps offline ) has been updated with enhanced geo-location powers for laptops , so now developers can "securely locate users to within 200m accuracy" in hundreds of cities in either IE, Firefox, ...
googlemobile.blogspot.com - 10/22/2008
Official Google Mobile Blog: My Location now with Wi-Fi
— googlemobile.blogspot.com — Today, we're taking another step toward that goal, with the release of My Location with Wi-Fi, which will provide even greater accuracy when you use a device with Wi-Fi. The premise is similar to what we do with cell tower information: information ... (more) Official Google Mobile Blog: My Location now with Wi-Fi

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TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff:  Google Gears Geolocation can now tell precisely your laptop’s location using WiFi

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Google Gears Geolocation can now tell precisely your laptop’s location using WiFi
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff — ... information. The Gear’s Geolocation API was first intended for developers to develop apps on mobile phones that send location information to location-enabled services/websites. And now it’s been extended to laptop users. In Chrome and Android, the Gears stays as built-in, which can deliver the user’s location information to a location-enabled website/service without requiring users to install a plug-in. But you need to install the plug-in in other browsers. Google Blog via [gizmodo] Google Gears,Geolocation,web 2.0 Technorati Tags: Google Gears , ...

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