Geotagging. It's not exactly a long, lost art, but it's certainly not something most folks bother to do after a trip. Avid travelers, hikers and the general outdoorsy crowd have been embracing the ...

Google and Microsoft, tech giants embroiled in a competitive battle that has spanned many years and will continue to rage for many years to come, have teamed up to take down a Texas-based patent troll ...

Last November a new web site called FlickrMap was announced by Mark Zeman which is an excellent tool for viewing geotagged (tying earth coordinates to a photo) Flickr photos in a Flash map (a small ...

Microsoft and Google have teamed up to challenge a patent held by GeoTag--a geolocation technology company--that has been used to sue more than 300 other businesses. The technology giants said the ...

Attaching location data to images enables new ways to search photos, give slide shows or be a virtual tourist. For now, early adopters only need apply. Photos: A look at geotagging technology Stephen ...

The latest release of RoboGEO – Version 5.0 – supports the ability to directly geotag your photos using Google Earth. The technique is very elegant and is very similar to the geotagging feature in ...

Though normally seen as rivals, Microsoft and Google have joined forces to sue a patent troll, Texas company GeoTag Inc., and have its patent invalidated. Since July last year, GeoTag has sued at ...

Geotagging your photos can be a really useful way of keeping track of where they were taken. It’s a simple task with most mobile phones as they’re location-aware, but adding geodata to photos taken ...

Google Mail users will now be able to let their contacts know where they are when they send an email. The experimental feature, which was developed as part of Google Labs, detects which city, region ...

Cell phones have become the mother of all convergence devices, combining dozens of functions formerly found separately or on PCs. Which leads one to ask: What’s next? What technology will they ...

Your digital camera is a diligent archivist. Each time it captures an image, it records the time the photo was taken as well as the settings that were used—details you can use later to help track down ...