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.

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 ...

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.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More 2.6 billion people have smartphones today. That’ll be a staggering 6.1 ...

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 ...

Mobile devices and cell phones are frequent sources of evidence in modern legal cases and investigations, and a common question involves where a phone was at a particular time. Although CSI makes this ...

The entire IPv6 number space has 2 128 addresses – over 340 undecillion addresses.

Twitter gets even better with the introduction of a new opt-in geolocation feature that will allow you to identify where you are tweeting from. Attaching your location to a tweet is nothing new to ...

Websites employ web tracking for collecting relevant information about their visitors to serve them personalized content. A subset of web tracking, which is widely used in location tracking these days ...

A federal judge in Virginia sided with Google this week on its motion for judgment on the pleadings in a dispute over patents related to geolocation of mobile devices. Google argued, and the court ...