You are here and Skyhook knows it without using GPS
| January 21, 2008 |  View for printing |
In the geek equivalent of a Super Bowl ad, Skyhook Wireless got a shoutout at the Macworld expo last week, putting the Boston technology firm in the same company as tech giants like Intel Corp. and Google Inc.
Apple Inc.'s chief executive, Steve Jobs, revealed in his keynote speech that Skyhook helps power a new location-awareness feature that's available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It allows the sleek devices to home in on their current location using WiFi technology.
"There's no GPS inside the phone . . . how do we actually arrive at the location?" Jobs said, demonstrating the location-finding ability on an iPhone by plotting a route from the convention center to the nearest Apple store - without having to type in his starting point.
By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Full Story: http://www.boston.com/business/techn ... u_are_here/
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