The Laptop Cop doesn’t have a badge or a gun to get those sneaky bastards that stole your precious laptop. But Laptop Cop will track the your computer and it will let you to connect remotely. You can pinpoint the position with the geo-location feature. The application will use WiFi triangulation technology from Skyhook Wireless

SiRF learned this lesson almost two years ago, and now Qualcomm's picking up on the same thing: WiFi-based positioning seems to work pretty damned well, all things considered. The company, which offers its gpsOne platform to handset manufacturers for integrating AGPS -- a now-standard feature on virtually every new phone -- has tied up with Skyhook Wireless to license its WiFi Positioning Sys...

Skyhook Wireless has licensed their WiFi Positioning System which is a method of combining massive professional wardriving databases with geographical latitude and longitude to Qualcomm. WiFi Positioning System can be used to offer a location with a few dozen feet in urban areas, such as with the first-generation iPhone or combined with GPS in the form

As demand for location-based applications continues to climb, business is booming for Skyhook Wireless, the Boston-based maker of the Wi-Fi Positioning System and XPS 2.0 hybrid positioning system.

Qualcomm has licensed Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi Positioning System. WPS uses Wi-Fi information, in addition to cellular and GPS data, to better locate mobile devices. By licensing the technology, Qualcomm will be able to include it in future handsets. Currently, ...

Qualcomm has licensed Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), a method of combining massive professional wardriving databases with geographical latitude and longitude.

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Convergence isn’t overrated. No, sir. In fact, Qualcomm and Skyhook Wireless think it’s the right thing to do. Which is why Qualcomm’s gpsOne Platform will soon be empowered by Skyhook Wireless’ Wi-Fi positioning system and XPS 2.0 hybrid positioning system. Both systems offer to give users accurate location information, and they work by “detecting Wi-Fi access

Qualcomm now has a license to distribute Skyhook Wireless’ technology for Wi-Fi location...

Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) and the XPS Hybrid Location System, is today demonstrating Wi-Fi positioning on the latest version of Symbian OSTM, v9.5. Symbian, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, will support Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) through Symbian’s LBS architecture, … Read Original Post