Folks

I came across this piece on cnet news today - "....LOS ANGELES--Windows 7
has a new programming interface designed to make it a whole lot easier for
software to figure out where in the world a PC and its user are located.
That should make it easier for a whole new range of location-based services
from finding nearby friends to LoJack-like PC tracking programs. Even search
could be a whole lot better if the search engine knew where you were.
Indeed, searchers often enter their city with their location to try and get
just that benefit. "

The interesting part for me was "...... at a low level, Microsoft has a new
application programming interface (API) for sensors and a second API for
location. It uses any of a number of things to actually get the location,
depending on what's available. Obviously there's GPS, but it also supports
Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation. At a minimum. Users can type in their
location if they really want location-based services and don't have any of
those other sensors."


The rest is here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10084345-56.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0

regards
Kevin




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