Apple's patent for a Wi-Fi-based positioning system was first filed for in 2010 and credits Ronald K. Huang as its inventor. Follow AppleInsider on Google News 16 Comments ...

Apple has a new patent granted by the USPTO today (via AppleInsider), and it describes a for determining a user’s position when they’re indoors, using existing Wi-Fi infrastructure instead of ...

Indoor Survey is only accessible by direct link and does not appear in the App Store's search tool. Now at version 1.0, the title was last updated on Oct. 27, is compatible with iPhone, iPad and ...

Founded in 2010 in Victoria, B.C., Wifarer’s approach to indoor positioning was primarily centered on Android for many years, which sort of makes the CEO’s hire by Apple an odd one.

Apple Beefs Up Indoor Positioning Team with Wifarer CEO. Thursday May 1, 2014 9:33 AM PDT by Kelly Hodgkins. ... The company's technology uses existing Wi-Fi networks, iBeacons, ...

Researchers find Apple's Wi-Fi Positioning System 'represents a really serious privacy vulnerability.' Here's what's happening how to make sure your network can't be discovered.

Apple’s Wi-Fi-based Positioning System Reveals Access Point Locations. At his Krebs on Security site, Brian Krebs writes: Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took ...

TechCrunch reports today that the CEO and founder of Wifarer, a company working on innovative indoor positioning technology, has has left for a leadership role at Apple. While Philip Stanger ...

Apple has used Wi-Fi positioning as an element of its location services for many years. The company’s Look Around feature in Maps relies on vehicles that drive around recording images, but they ...

If your smartphone couldn’t rely on its Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), its location abilities would be slower and less accurate. However, WPS can prove dangerous when it exposes your whereabouts.

Both Apple and Google operate their own Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPS) that obtain certain hardware identifiers from all wireless access points that come within range of their mobile devices.

10 Wi-Fi configuration tips from Apple for better wireless connectivity, performance Your email has been sent iPhone, iPad and Mac users, increasingly dependent upon wireless connections, can take ...