Why you will upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard
TG Daily - All News — ... (via Google Translate), build 10A261 shows greater stability and speed gains than previous ones. Multi-touch and geolocation features? According to an AppleInsider report , geolocation APIs and multi-touch support are also in the works. The former will enable creation of applications that can poll the system for user's current latitude and longitude via CoreLocation framework borrowed from the iPhone OS. The latter has been long expected on desktop Macs, especially now that Microsoft has made multi-touch one of key highlights in Windows 7. Although current OS X version ...

Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard to include location, Multi-Touch™ developer hooks
MacDailyNews — ... to triangulate the system's location in a manner similar to the way the original iPhone was able to use the technology ti emulate a true global positioning signal," Jade reports. "Those same people say that developers writing applications for Snow Leopard will also gain access to a new set of Cocoa-based programing interfaces for leveraging the multi-touch features of the latest MacBooks and MacBook Pros within their applications," Jade reports. Read more in the full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Macs don't include GPS technology, yet . And, of course Snow Leopard has ...

Snow Leopard to Triangulate a Computer's Location [Software]
Gizmodo — ... ) framework found in the iPhone SDK, which should allow third party programmers to easily take advantage of the locational tools. And, given that CoreLocation requires no special, costly hardware, I say why not? It's sad that, even from my couch, I close my notebook to use my iPhone whenever I want to look up directions. [AppleInsider] ...

Report: New OS X To Borrow From iPhone
Cult of Mac — ... Location technology is also part of Apple’s new operating system, Apple Insider reported, citing “people familiar” with a test version of Leopard. Developers just received the latest “build” of 10.6, according to ...

Apple's Snow Leopard Will Triangulate a Mac's Location
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... OS. The OS contains a framework called CoreLocation — the same one used in the original iPhone to estimate a device's location with triangulation. News of a location-based feature in OS X comes at good timing, as geo-aware social services are becoming increasingly popular. For example, the iPhone application Loopt allows users to share their locations on a map. Google also recently launched a map-sharing feature on Google Maps called Latitude. Apple's Snow Leopard to include location, multi-touch tools [AppleInsider via Gizmodo] ...

OS X Snow Leopard to get WiFi triangulation, more multitouch control?
SlashGear — ... Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard could introduce WiFi triangulation, used to estimate geographical location, in a crossover of the technology from the iPhone to the MacBook range.  The system- which is part of the CoreLocation framework in the iPhone SDK - will presumably be used to give general location information to navigation software such as Google Maps, as the first-generation iPhone did to compensate for its lack of true GPS. ...

Snow Leopard to adopt location, multi-touch from iPhone OS
Infinite Loop — ... Developers using the latest test build of Mac OS X 10.6 have identified added frameworks for pinpointing a Mac's location as well as interpreting and using multi-touch gestures, according to a report from AppleInsider. ...

Mac OS X Snow Leopard to include multi-touch support and location tracking
Obsessable News Feed — ... , Apple continues on with its development of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, adding in a few last-minute features we're just hearing about. Apple looks to be leveraging its iPhone know-how, bringing location-based technology and multi-touch support to the upcoming operating system refresh. ...

Snow Leopard to include GPS-like CoreLocation framework
Boing Boing Gadgets — According to developers with access to the latest pre-release distributions of Snow Leopard, the OS now includes CoreLocation, which is the same framework that allowed the first iPhone to roughly triangulate its position without a GPS unit. That should open the way for some cool iPhone-like apps on MacBooks and MacBook Pros... perhaps even ports of stuff like recipe and friend finger applications that have gone over so well. Good stuff. Apple's Snow Leopard to Include Location Multi-Touch Tools [Apple Insider via Gadget Lab] ...

Snow Leopard to include location and multi-touch SDK tools?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... AppleInsider claims that Snow Leopard will include developer hooks that will determine a Mac's geographical location and provide additional multi-touch support for Mac laptops with glass trackpads. ...

Snow Leopard gets hip to CoreLocation and multitouch
Engadget — ... We're in the Q1 2009, folks, and while we'd love to believe that the release of Snow Leopard is imminent, it looks like all we'll have to be sustained by is rumors and innuendo for the time being. According to "insiders" at, well, Apple Insider, the ...

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to be more iPhone OS-like
VentureBeat — ... Specifically, the newest pre-release Snow Leopard builds apparently include the CoreLocation framework, taken from the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), according to AppleInsider. This allows applications to gain a computers coordinates and locate it on a map, something particularly useful for location-based service such as the ...

Apple's Snow Leopard OS X Getting iPhone-Influenced Features
AppScout — ... On the iPhone, the CoreLocation feature uses the handset's GPS technology to detect the location of the device. As AppleInsider points out, since Apple's computers don't feature GPS, the devices will use triangulation via networking hardware to perform the task. ...

Snow Leopard to include location-based services, further multi-touch support
Boy Genius Report — Building on the success of the integrated location-based services in the iPhone, it looks like Apple is getting set to include some similar functionality in its upcoming Snow Leopard OS release. According to Apple Insider, the new operating system will allow software developers to utilize Wi-Fi triangulation to integrate location information into their applications. This could in turn be used to provide a variety of proximity-based information for portable computer users. On the input side, it looks like Snow Leopard will also be gaining further multi-touch ...

Apple Adding Location To Next Version Of Mac OS? (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — An interesting tidbit from AppleInsider: Apple could be incorporating location features into the next version of Mac OS X. Besides making Internet maps and directories (like Yelp) easier to use, this could potentially help companies like Google (GOOG) upsell location-based advertising. If true, this could potentially be good news for Boston-based Skyhook Wireless, which makes a GPS-like location platform based on wi-fi. Apple already uses Skyhook in the iPhone and iPod touch, which suggests it could be their technology partner for the Mac, too. ...

CoreLocate on the Snow Leopard Where They Multi-Touched You
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — [image] The latest seeded version of Mac OS X 10.6, AKA Snow Leopard, is said to include some tasty treats for developers. One being the inclusion of CoreLocations, a fancy little feature adopted from the iPhone. CoreLocation allows developers to ID a Macs current latitude and longitude based on available information. We believe it works by harnessing the combined dream powers of unicorns and puppy dogs, but AppleInsider.com seems to think other wise . Instead of using a GPS signal like the iPhone 3G, CoreLocation would use the existing network hardware to triangulate your ...

Daily Apple: Forgetting Fixes, France Free-For-All, & Finer Focus [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —

Apple to include location, multi-touch tools in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
D' Technology Weblog — ... let developers determine the geographical location of Macs, as well as extend additional support for multi-touch to their apps. People familiar with the latest pre-release distributions of the next-gen OS say the software now includes the CoreLocation framework previously available via the iPhone SDK, which will allow Mac applications to identify the current latitude and longitude of the Macs on which they’re running. Full Article ...

Next Mac OS: Learning from iPhone?
Today @ PC World — ... and support the Core Location service on Macs. Also, multitouch capabilities will be accessible to third-party developers, according to Apple Insider . [image] Since Macs are not 3G capable -- not yet, anyway -- Core Location on Apple's computer line would use latitude and longitude coordinates instead of GPS to display a device's location. But does Core Location for Mac mean a ...

Next Mac OS: Learning from iPhone?
Macworld — ... and support the Core Location service on Macs. Also, multitouch capabilities will be accessible to third-party developers, according to Apple Insider . Since Macs are not 3G capable—not yet, anyway—Core Location on Apple's computer line would use latitude and longitude coordinates instead of GPS to display a device's location. But does Core Location for Mac mean a ...

Apple's Snow Leopard Reportedly Adds Location, Multi-Touch
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... development kit, AppleInsider reported this week. The tools would enable developers, both in and outside of Apple, to build applications that can identify the geographical location of a Mac based on its current longitude and latitude. In addition, Snow Leopard, or Mac ...

Apple's Snow Leopard Reportedly Adds Location, Multi-Touch
TechWeb — ... development kit, AppleInsider reported this week. The tools would enable developers, both in and outside of Apple, to build applications that can identify the geographical location of a Mac based on its current longitude and latitude. In addition, Snow Leopard, or Mac ...