Even as we busily plug our personal information into Facebook, the powerhouse social network is about to get a whole lot more personal. It’s getting ready to link geo-location information to your ...

Think back to an important event in your life: a graduation, a birth, a special Thanksgiving dinner. Chances are you're remembering not only what happened, but also where it happened. And now ...

Turning off geotags isn’t enough in order to anonymize your location. It’s the people in your social network giving you away regardless. (Photo: Getty) If we had one big map of geotags of every little ...

Augmented reality, wearable computing and mobile search are exciting new technologies. But where will the data come from to illuminate your Google Glasses or the AR layer on your phone? No one wants ...

Geotagged photos are increasingly the norm. Our smartphones, some new cameras, Eye-Fi cards (in wi-fi range), and other gadgets add the latitude and longitude to the “EXIF” metadata found in most ...

Thanks to the release of iPhoto ’09, there’s been a lot of buzz around the idea of adding location data, called geotags, to your photos. The newest version of Apple’s photo-management software—along ...

For as long as there's been an Instagram, there has been Instagram-bragging. But one feature in particular has elevated it to a true artform: location tags. Once users were allowed to create and check ...