Yahoo announces the deal on its blog. Whereonearth is a local search company with wifi location based services, just like the company Google is working with. All Yahoo needs now is to become a Wifi ISP a la Google’s ambitions, and it can pinpoint you down to the hotspot. Oh wait, it has deals with SBC, Bellsouth, and Verizon, which just so happens to be a huge Wifi provider….
Yahoo Buys WhereOnEarth
Yahoo announces the deal on its blog. Whereonearth is a local search company with wifi location based services, just like the company Google is working with. All Yahoo needs now is to become a Wifi ISP a la Google's ambitions, and it can pinpoint you down to the hotspot….
John,
You might want to say that SBC is the huge wi-fi provider, VZ denigrates wi-fi in favor of EV-DO, and they pulled their payphone deployment ages ago. I have no clue what Bellsouth is up to in that dept.
In addition to wireless offerings, Whereonearth has international geo-coding technology that can be used to enhance local search, local advertising, personalization, etc. I looked into it a while back, very neat stuff.