Skyhook SpotRank Ready to Provide Phone Movement Data to App Developers

If you’ve used both a conventional consumer-grade GPS and a GPS-enabled phone, you’ve probably noticed that the phone seems to be able to get a general idea of your location much faster than the conventional GPS. One of the reasons is your phone is also capable of using WiFi (wireless LAN) and has software that uses the phone’s ability to access Skyhook Wireless’s database of WiFi access points to get a location estimate faster than a GPS can.

Skyhook announced a new service (and partner?) that lets mobile app developers mine anonymous location queries to provide data on how many people are moving through a WiFi hotspot area.

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