Windows Phone Thoughts: Google Gears API Now Does Geolocation

"Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don't have GPS. Today we're launching the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers, while two third-party developers are launching the first location-enabled web apps using this API on Windows Mobile. One of the most popular travel sites in the Europe, lastminute.com, has now location-enabled their new mobile restaurant finder to help you find restaurants near you without requiring you to type in where you are. If you're in the UK, just go to fonefood at m.lastminute.com, click the "Find your location" link on the home page, select the type of restaurant you want, and lastminute.com will automatically work out which neighbourhood and city you are in and find matching restaurants."

Google Gears continues to evolve, and now with the ability to integrate location based information to Gears based apps, a step closer to taking all the information your handheld can handle and merging it together for useful purposes has been taken. I wonder if the next multimillionaire will be someone who monitors police band radio, enters up-to-the-minute speed trap information into a database, and beams it to my handheld as I drive! Of course they'd remember where they got the idea when they're sitting at the top ;)