6 posts and columns on Skyhook Wireless

Expect More Companies to Serve Up Forked Android Devices

in Mobile on April 6 at 4:05 am PT

“Everyone’s emboldened by the success of Amazon. Everyone’s saying, ‘We need to go our own way.’”
Forking Android

News Byte

Skyhook Positions Itself for Attack on Google

in News on September 15, 2010 at 2:39 pm PT

Skyhook Wireless, maker of technology for determining location using nearby Wi-Fi signals, filed suit against Google today. Twice, in fact. In Massachusetts Superior Court, the company accused Google of business interference, alleging that the Android creator used its clout with handset makers to block Skyhook’s positioning technology, dooming some valuable contracts. And in U.S. District Court, Skyhook charged Google with infringing on four of its patents. No comment yet from Google.

Voices

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.

Mapping Your Digital Photo World

in The Mossberg Solution on August 19, 2008 at 6:02 pm PT

The Eye-Fi Explore Card, a wireless memory card with a geotagging feature that geographically prelabels photos, was unreliable in one scenario, but we found it to be a great way to automatically organize and label photos.
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