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Skyhook Wireless, Wardriving, WiGLE and Newspapers
One of the most interesting facts of the Stevenote was the geolocation cooperation with Skyhook Wireless. Apple uses them in addition to Google in order to complement Google’s cell tower based triangulation with a Wi-Fi based triangulation. Wi-Fi based position is not new and e.g. used by Microsoft in VirtualEarth (AFAIR because of ActiveX only […]
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Stevenote – What’s in for me?
Yesterday’s Stevenote brought a number of announcements. As somebody who bought his first Apple computer (an Apple IIe) in 1984 and over the last years switched back to a mainly Apple setup at home (2MBP, 1 Mac mini, apple tv, Airport Extreme, iTouch, iPod 4G, iPod nano 1G), these announcements are definitely worth a closer […]
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ACAP – The strawman proposals
In a couple of hours i’m going to attend the “International Conference on the Conclusion of the ACAP Pilot” at AP’s premises here in NYC. (This has given me the chance to see some of my AP friends :-) ). For those of you who don’t know ACAP. According to the website: Following a successful […]