Qualcomm has licensed Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), a method of combining massive professional wardriving databases with geographical latitude and longitude. WPS can be used to ...

To position yourself with Google Maps, you need the GPS function of the terminal or a Wi-Fi connection. The GPS function allows positioning even when the terminal is offline, but connecting to Wi-Fi ...

After I heard that Skyhook Wireless was announcing a deal that would put its geolocation technology into a line of Dell Netbooks, I talked with the company's CEO, Ted Morgan. I'd last talked to Morgan ...

Two of the general criticisms of GPS are that the technology doesn't do very well in dense urban areas, and it doesn't get accurate enough for some uses. At least two separate organizations—the ...

When Kyle Carmitchel fired up his Wi-Fi only iPad 2 to check his route on a road-trip, he was amazed to see that it was tracking his position on the map using proper, works-in-the-middle-of-nowhere ...

Without the GPS built into tablets like the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Tab 2, Apple's new mini tablet can't offer turn-by-turn directions. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

While we focused more on Texas Instruments' eye-catching OMAP4 development device when we visited the company a few weeks ago, we also had a chance to talk to their wireless chipset team. TI's combo ...

One of the drawbacks of the cheaper, WiFi-only iPad 2 is that it doesn’t have GPS — so it can’t run any of those beautiful fullscreen navigation apps. GPS is limited to the more expensive 3G iPad ...

Here's a nice idea. If you have a WiFi iPad but would like to use that big screen for navigation, now you have a solution. With a small hardware plug in, and the CoPilot Live software, you can ...