It’s a recent Saturday and I’m searching for Spider-Man — the comics version — at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. Entering the busy shop across the street from the famous university, one ...

Have you ever been out in public and wondered if someone you knew was nearby? Well, there’s now an app for that. A group of “ambient awareness apps” were spotlighted during the SXSW Interactive ...

Bulbs, starting at $69 for two, can screw into regular fixtures and broadcast offers, maps, or information to customers or guests of businesses--and send movement and behavior data to business owners.

No audio available for this content. HERE Mapmaking allows users to create detailed interactive maps of private sites, outdoors and indoors. This includes sites not covered by public maps, such as ...

Where the heck am I? I’ve asked that question many times as I’ve gotten lost on America’s interstates. It’s not as common a question now as it used to be, thanks to GPS devices such as Garmin’s N vi ...

While much of the press has been focused on the bevy of usage statistics released by MyTown, Foursquare and Gowalla, the location-based social app genre continues to expand. PlacePop, which launched ...