Apple’s iBeacon is suddenly in the news a lot, and will soon show up at major sporting events, big retail stores and elsewhere. The beacon revolution is being presented as an Apple thing for Apple ...

A team of researchers from the Brunswick Technical University in Germany has discovered an alarming number of Android applications that employ ultrasonic tracking beacons to track users and their ...

Google Maps is getting a lot of love lately, and in addition to support for 3D buildings and saving the parking location on Android Auto, the app has quietly received what I believe is the biggest ...

Google introduced two things earlier today, being Nearby APIs which will enable enhanced device-to-device communication — even with iPhones — and Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons for everywhere you may go ...

Coming soon to an Android device near you: the ability to interact with devices...near you. I’m a managing editor at PCMag.com focused on PC hardware. Reading this during the day? Then you've caught ...

One of Google’s approaches to the Internet of Things involves placing low-energy Bluetooth beacons that can communicate with devices. Google is announcing new partners today who have updated Android ...

Google's next version of Chrome will allow developers to send notifications and URLs from Bluetooth beacon-equipped objects to smartphones. The new feature supports the Physical Web, a project that ...

As if consumers didn’t have enough to worry about when it comes to privacy, researchers have uncovered a slew of Android apps that silently send out ultrasonic signals that allow devices to be tracked ...

New research has discovered the rapid spread among Android apps of a recent form of ad tracking that monitors what users are listening to using hidden audio signals. The ad tracking system, known as ...

Google announced today that it has begun to support physical beacons in its Chrome browser for Android. The feature, which has been tested in the iOS app since last summer, is heading to Chrome 49 for ...