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Yahoo Launches Fire Eagle To Manage Location-Based Information

Aug 12, 2008 7:06 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) said today its finally taking Fire Eagle out of beta and opening it up to the public. The service helps manage location information for websites, or for that matter, any device that has internet access. I’ve always wondered why location-based information has been limited to cell phones…

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Posted In: Search, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, GPS Navigation & Maps, Companies, Yahoo, fire eagle

Yahoo Launches Location Service For Developers; But It’s Obviously A Beta

Mar 5, 2008 9:00 PM

Trying to take a slice of the location-based services market, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched a new service today called Fire Eagle, which “is meant to be a location broker that collects location information from a variety of services and devices and makes them available to other platforms,” according to GigaOm,…

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Posted In: Technologies / Formats, GPS Navigation & Maps, Companies, Google, Nokia, Yahoo, fire eagle

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