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Three Best Practices for Securing Microsoft Exchange
White Paper Adding cost-effective strong authentication for remote users of Outlook Web Access, including a range of choices from invisible IP-geolocation and device fingerprinting to tangible forms such as one-time-password tokens... [01 Oct 2009]
Matchmaking for Online Games and Other Latency-Sensitive P2P Systems
White Paper One novel feature of Htrae is its synthesis of geolocation with a network coordinate system. The latency between machines on the Internet can dramatically affect users' experience for many distributed applications. [16 Sep 2009]
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
News Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that the service will soon get a new feature in its API: the capability to optionally put geolocation data into tweets. Currently, geo-focused apps like Foursquare must... [21 Aug 2009]
Mozilla lets developers into Firefox 3.6 secrets
News The addition of geolocation features, which enable authorised websites do things like show your location and nearby coffee shops on a map, is one of the significant features in Firefox 3.5. Mozilla has published an... [30 Jul 2009]
Firefox 3.5: It's alive
News Firefox 3.5 has a range of new features, including a new JavaScript engine for faster web applications such as Google Docs; the ability to show video built into web pages without plug-ins; a private browsing mode; fancy downloadable... [01 Jul 2009]
Firefox 3.5 release candidate goes live
News Private browsing, geolocation, faster performance than Firefox 3 for both loading pages and running JavaScript, local storage for better offline support, and native video for Ogg/Vorbis. Users of Firefox 3.5 beta can now... [18 Jun 2009]
Latest Firefox RC misses testing day
News Among the changes compared with the current Firefox 3.0.x versions are the faster TraceMonkey engine for running websites' JavaScript programs; support for tags to describe audio and video content the way images have been available for... [01 Jun 2009]
Google: Apps to shun OS for the desktop
News Gundotra showed off how web applications will be able to take advantage of five main HTML 5 concepts: canvas tags, video tags, geolocation, application caching and database, and Web Workers. Geolocation... [28 May 2009]
Fake bomb-scare scam explodes on email accounts
News The scammers are using IP address geolocation techniques to figure out what city the recipient lives in and are localising the fake bomb news to that location. Security experts warned on Monday of a new insidious email... [17 Mar 2009]
Geolocation: Knowing Your Enemy
White Paper This paper provides an overview of the actions online fraudsters are taking that hurt e-merchants and their customers, and outlines how geolocation has been established as one of the most effective tools for identifying... [13 Feb 2009]
Geolocation - Knowing Your Enemy
White Paper This report provides an overview of the actions online fraudsters are taking that hurt e-merchants and their customers, and outlines how geolocation has been established as one of the most effective tools for identifying... [11 Feb 2009]
Google and friends kick start white space database
News In its ruling in November, the FCC set rules stating that devices using a combination of geolocation technology and spectrum-sensing technology could be approved for unlicensed white space use. Google believes that using... [09 Feb 2009]
Google slimming down six projects
News Once a popular social/geolocation experiment, it's been largely supplanted by Twitter. In a series of separate posts on official Google blogs, the company announced it is terminating, stopping development on, or... [15 Jan 2009]
Going Global with Geolocation
White Paper Explains how geolocation uses a Web visitor's IP address to identify their physical location Explores how geolocation can improve click-through, reduce drop-off rates, increase loyalty and increase sales [25 Oct 2008]
Google's lobby site ups US "white space" debate
News Some companies claim that geolocation-based technology has proven it can interference with existing spectrum holders. The debate over new unlicensed spectrum the Federal Communications Commission is considering opening... [19 Aug 2008]
