Geode Plug-In Makes Firefox Location-Aware

Sean Fallon — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:15:00 EDT

Mozilla Labs has unveiled Geode—a plugin that will take advantage of the W3C Geolocation Spec in Firefox 3.1. The plan is to make the browser location-aware so that somewhere down the line, you could visit a site like Yelp on your laptop in a strange town and it will automatically find your location and offer nearby restaurant suggestions and directions. Mozilla also offered other possible examples like: RSS readers that adjust based on whether or not your are at work or at home, location-restricted logins and websites that deliver news based on your physical location.

Obviously, most of the sites on the web are not currently compatible with Geode, but it is easy to see how something like this could really change the way you surf the web on your laptop—much like the iPhone has with handsets. In the meantime, a preview version is available to Firefox 3 users starting today—so you can kick the tires on it a bit before it is fully integrated into 3.1. [Mozilla Labs via Lifehacker]

The Personal Internet Communicator - PC Mini or MacDonald's Box?

johnb — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:25:20 EDT

I'm looking at this thing and it looks like an old Styrofoam Big Mac container. However, it's actually some sore of Geode-powered Windows CE deviced designed as a little web browsing appliance. No screen, no keyboard, no inputs—just a VGA, some USB ports, and a dream. A built-in hard drive stores 10GB of nuffin and it basically plugs into your network and turns any VGA monitor into an Internet kiosk. Probably not going to take off in the home but I can definitely see 50 of these in a cyber-cafe. $299 MSRP.

The Personal Internet Communicator [AMD via SlashDot]

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Geode Plug-In Makes Firefox Location-Aware

The Personal Internet Communicator - PC Mini or MacDonald's Box?