Earlier this week, Facebook brought over status update features to apps. Developers now have the ability to let users add friends, location, and share photos directly from apps. The social networking ...

A Russian-developed app called “Girls Around Me” lets you see recent Foursquare check-ins in your vicinity (categorized by gender) and then gives you a quick like to that person’s Facebook profile — ...

Location services provider Skyhook — best known for popularizing the concept of Wi-Fi location on phones and for a public spat with Google — has introduced version 4.6 of its mobile SDK this morning.

Google on Thursday launched a beta Places API for iOS, which should allow future apps with location sharing to use actual place names, instead of latitude and longitude. The application programming ...

Today Sam Liang, former lead architect for Google’s locations platform, is launching an API to give mobile app developers a way to more precisely track a users location. The release is the next step ...

One of the pieces of functionality commonly discussed when distinguishing HTML5 from previous versions of HTML is the standardization of geolocation via the Geolocation API. Although some browsers ...