GPS/LBS

Thu, May 03, 2012 - We look at Facebook, Foursquare, Google Latitude and Yelp to see how their mobile location-based services have prospered -- or not.

Fri, April 27, 2012 - Sen. Chuck Grassley had threatened to block a Senate vote on two nominees because the FCC would not give him documents

Thu, April 26, 2012 - FBI tracks down Higinio Ochoa using geo-tagged photos

Tue, April 10, 2012 - Two U.S. senators asked the NTIA for an accounting of federal costs for GPS interference testing

Fri, April 06, 2012 - Location tools go well beyond GPS and Wi-Fi and increasingly can deliver high accuracy even indoors

Tue, April 03, 2012 - Nearly three quarters of IT decision makers are failing to make effective use of mapping technology in their businesses, according to Sanjay Patel, head of enterprise GEO at Google.

Mon, April 02, 2012 - The agency could go ahead and kill the carrier's LTE plan or take other action, and it has no deadline

Sat, March 31, 2012 - A geo-location based app called Girls Around Me has raised eyebrows, but the real lesson is you need to be careful what you post online.

Fri, March 23, 2012 - Location-based services inside buildings won't be focused on finding directions but on making decisions

Wed, March 21, 2012 - Location-based services have proved lucrative but cause some consumer jitters

Fri, March 16, 2012 - The FCC needs to let it launch LTE or offer compensation, LightSquared says in a filing due Friday

Wed, February 29, 2012 - The company says it's looking for a replacement and still hopes to build its LTE network

Fri, February 17, 2012 - Philip Falcone of Harbinger Capital partners might sue the FCC and GPS industry or swap spectrum with the Defense Department

Wed, February 15, 2012 - Responding to a decision that could sink it, the carrier called on other parties to join in solving a conflict over GPS interference