Firefox users to obtain location tool

Mozilla, the company for the Web browser Firefox, created a technology that allows Web sites, the physical location of computers.

This system will allow users, for example, to find local restaurants, if you are in a new city.

Geode is a pilot add-on to the comprehensive introduction of geolocation technology in release Firefox 3.1.

Users can control the amount of information on the whereabouts of titles.

It uses technology from the company’s “Skyhook working on a computer capable of wireless networks nearby.

Loki his call system, the situation in the second with an accuracy of about 10 to 20 meters.

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Mike Shaver, Mozilla Vice President of Engineering Geode believes they have a number of applications that go beyond the restaurant.

“People must eat, but it is much more than that,” he said.

“We wanted the location of an additional layer to help people the information they need,” he said.

Specific local news and site authentication only provides access to people from certain places, other possible uses of technology.

In addition, Mr. Shaver provides the location of each “environment” with people to find what other countries have done in certain places.

Geode is strictly controlled by users. If the site asks for a seat, bar service allows users to decide whether their exact location, region or city or anything.

Firefox does not wish to remain above the protection of privacy and plans to eventually allow users to services and geolocation techniques that they want.

Loki is one of many such geographic-specific applications and Web sites that link to information, do more “content” and based on the increasingly mobile Web users.

Among the Geode test social network Pownce, which is part of its location service that makes it easier to send files and messages to their friends.

Irritating?

Yahoo fired an eagle, which aspires to become an agent for a number of location aware applications, including use.

Mr. Shaver acknowledged that while content providers have long seen geolocation as an important tool for feedback from users has not yet been tested.

“This is one reason why we want people to try to pq. We want people to tell us about their experiences, and we know that there can be irritating, for example, if all the seats is that ask if you want to disclose their location, “he said.

source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7659497.stm