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Web 2.0 Expo: Location Apps Come to Laptops, Desktops

in News on April 1, 2009 at 5:16 pm PT

Is this the year that location-based applications, already popular among mobile users, migrate to desktops and laptops as well? Ryan Sarver, director of consumer products at Skyhook Wireless, which operates a Wi-Fi-based positioning system, is betting so. “It feels like 2009 is a huge year for location on laptops,” he told the crowd of techies at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Wednesday.