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Wireless location tracking draws privacy questions

May 16, 2006 Electronic devices can track your children and serve up maps, restaurant recommendations. But are privacy laws keeping up? TAGS: CTIA, wireless phone company, Skyhook Wireless, hot spot, wireless phone, wireless carrier, telephone company, Wi-Fi, location, vice president, Google Inc.

Google experiments with map ads

March 28, 2006 Graphical ads on Google Local maps foreshadow pop-up balloons for new types of data, analyst says. TAGS: Google Local, balloon, Barnes & Noble Inc., local search, Google Inc., map, pop-up, Yahoo! Inc., location

Revamped Google tools let you be you

April 30, 2007 Further clarifying its customization strategy, search giant enhances personalized home page product, renaming it "iGoogle." TAGS: iGoogle, gadget, Google Inc., home page, theme, location, video

Google's ambitions going mobile

November 28, 2006 newsmaker Deep Nishar, Google's director of product management, sees mobility as the next new frontier of the Internet. TAGS: Newsmaker, director of product management, Google Inc., Gmail, Google Maps, mobile phone, movie, location, GPS, mobile device, cell phone, U.S.

Google Earth gains chimp pix, travel videos

September 13, 2006 New partnerships with nature- and environment-oriented groups offer videos, photos and blogs for specific locations. Images: New visions from Google Earth TAGS: Google Earth, satellite image, Google Inc., satellite, blog, photograph, location, video

Helio adds new GPS-enabled phone

November 9, 2006 The Drift will let subscribers broadcast their location to friends and use Google Maps using satellite GPS technology. Photos: Helio calls on Drift TAGS: Helio, GPS, EarthLink Inc., subscriber, Google Maps, location, satellite, service provider, Google Inc.

Upstart aims to ease Web crawling for classifieds

March 14, 2006 Start-up Vast hopes to make your classified-ad search quicker, whether you are looking for "goths or midgets or prisoners." TAGS: Google Base, Craigslist, Google Inc., car, Yahoo! Inc., search, location

For handset makers, it's all about location

October 2, 2007 news analysis Nokia announces plans to spend $8.1 billion on Navteq. Why would it shell out so much for an outfit that's not well known? TAGS: handset maker, handset, Nokia Corp., GPS, location, provider, acquisition, direction, Google Inc.
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