I learned about Google Latitude the day it was introduced but didn’t see it as particularly a news-worthy item primarily because other companies have already done this before, that being to "see where your friends are in real time". What is news-worthy is that privacy advocates have already stated (yelled would actually be more appropriate) that...

There’s more than a few PCMech readers that are weather geeks (and some of you even have a PWS broadcasted on the internet). My preferred weather web site of choice is Weather Underground. The best part about that place is that it remains consistent, meaning no wild new changes, no "total redesigns", etc. They have a formula and it works. Part of...

Upon recent acquisition of a Garmin nüvi 270 I found that I had the ability to manually enter in longitude and latitude coordinates for locations. This is a very convenient feature because you can enter in coordinates directly without having to connect the GPS to the computer at all. For those that would ask “Why can’t I just enter in a street...