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Inside Colt's modular co-<endeca_term>location</endeca_term> datacentre

Inside Colt's modular co-location datacentre

...in Welwyn Garden City. Colt operates 19 datacentres across Europe providing co-location and managed infrastructure services to a variety of businesses. With around over... Read more

25 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Sony Xperia GPS adds Russian GLONASS satellites

...GLONASS, as well as GPS. Image credit: CNET UK The combination satellite location service is only currently available on new Xperia handsets — such as the... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Ben Woods

Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon

...it is talking to all the major mobile vendors about integrating indoor location technology into their smartphones. The company told ZDNet UK it expects to... Read more

25 May, 2012 by Ben Woods
UK Sentinel study reveals GPS jammer use

UK Sentinel study reveals GPS jammer use

...four GPS sensors in trials lasting from two to six months per location. The government-funded Sentinel project has uncovered more than a hundred incidents... Read more

22 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Apple fixes iOS 4 location data caching 'bug

iOS 4.3.3 update cuts stored location data down to size... One iPhone user's location data since last... Read more

5 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
Facebook shuts Gowalla <endeca_term>location</endeca_term> service

Facebook shuts Gowalla location service

...Three months after Facebook acquired the maker of a location-sharing app for mobile devices, Gowalla has closed up shop. Gowalla posted... Read more

12 March, 2012 by Steven Musil

Apple's third iOS 5 beta tackles location controls

...via Macrumors) has studied the new software and unearthed a more granular location-services settings pane where users can turn on and off specific location... Read more

12 July, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn
Inside Telecity's co-<endeca_term>location</endeca_term> datacentre

Inside Telecity's co-location datacentre

...TelecityGroup's three-year-old Powergate co-location facility in west London is in the middle of an expansion that... Read more

1 July, 2011 by Jack Clark

Virgin employs its fibre network for co-location services

...a deal with datacentre provider ICM to allow it to offer co-location services with guarantees of connectivity and uptime. The Virgin Media Business co... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 to tackle location tracking

...Apple has released an iOS update addressing location-tracking behaviour and the security of that information on its portable devices... Read more

5 May, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Bing looks at user location and history to tweak search

...been. Microsoft announced on Thursday that Bing now makes use of user location to change the way search results are ordered. This means if a... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Birmingham launches gunfire location tech

...city. Birmingham is the first UK city to install the Shotspotter Gunshot Location System. The technology can locate gunshot fire within a 25-metre radius... Read more

10 December, 2010 by Kable

Facebook opens Places for location sharing

...unveiled a new service called Places that will let users share their location with one another and more easily discover what's around them from... Read more

19 August, 2010 by Josh Lowensohn

Free Android apps suck power for adverts, research finds

...using GPS and downloading adverts over 3G that are specific to your location.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Free Android apps... Read more

19 March, 2012 by Rich Trenholm

Report: Facebook snaps up Gowalla

...Facebook has acquired Gowalla, which makes a location-based social-networking app for mobile devices, according to a report. Some... Read more

5 December, 2011 by Elinor Mills

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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