Google Deducing Wireless Location Data

bizwriter writes "When it comes to knowing where wireless users are, the carriers have had a lock on the data. But a patent application shows that Google is trying to deduce the information based on packet headers and estimated transmission rates. This would let it walk right around carriers and become another source of location data to advertisers."

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Re:Amazing Google

[timmarhy]

since when has an unfiltered web search been elevated to the status of a human right? access to the internet at all could be called a luxury for most of the worlds population.

and it's stupid to think a single hack on google is going to scare them out of china, what do you think this is, 8th grade? companys the size of google are not frightened in the slightest.