Tag Archives: location

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Oct 11

GeoCommunity and LocNav; One Talk, Two Audiences

Posted on 19th October 2011 by Gary

You can argue that it’s cheating or you can argue that there’s a vague degree of ecological-friendliness but sometimes you just end up recycling and repurposing a conference talk deck for more than one conference. So it was with my … Continue reading →

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Apr 11

iOS Location Caching Round-up – Conspiracy Theories: 0, Smart Location Caching: 1

Posted on 26th April 2011 by Gary

More a meta post, or what Kuro5hin would have called MLP (meaningless link propagation), this post started out as a comment to one of my previous posts on the iOS location caching controversy but soon expanded way beyond a comment … Continue reading →

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Apr 11

Location’s “Ick Factor”; First iOS And Now Android

Posted on 23rd April 2011 by Gary

Two days ago I wrote about the “discovery” of a cache file on iOS devices that stores the position of cell towers and the associated media coverage surrounding this. Note that I use “discovery” in inverted commas here. As Sally … Continue reading →

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Apr 11

iOS Location “Tracking”; Gross Invasion Of Privacy Or Media Sensationalism?

Posted on 21st April 2011 by Gary

Oh dear. For a few years now I’ve been talking about how the privacy aspect of today’s location technologies is something that may just catapult location into the mainstream, and possibly tabloid, media and probably for the wrong reasons. I … Continue reading →

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Feb 11

Talking About A Sense Of Place

Posted on 10th February 2011 by Gary

As a precursor to last week’s mashup* Digital Trends event, I chatted to Paul Squires of Imperica about my location trends in more detail than the mashup* format would have allowed for. The write-up from that interview is now up … Continue reading →

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