PayPal's location-based payment system is set to launch in the UK this summer, letting those not angrily boycotting the company pay for their stuff without need for cash, cards, chips, PINs, NFC or even a cheque. It'll just work. Read More >>

You know full well that all the innocent crap you spam out to social networks can be used to pinpoint you, highlight your friends and track your favourite places, building up a perfect record of your little life. Defence specialist Raytheon is automating this data harvesting process with a view to patenting a comprehensive tracking tool. Read More >>

Greater Manchester Police has launched an iOS app, which uses location-based services to fill users in on local events, missing people bulletins and even features the unsettling option of browsing any wanted appeals in your surrounding area. Read More >>

If you plotted out all the check-ins made on Foursquare, you should be able to get a pretty good handle on the geographic layout of a city. It's like modern day map making or check-in cartography. So do you think you can recognise a city just by its Foursquare check-ins? Read More >>

Las Vegas, the amazing place that sucks souls, wallets and dignities, is also really good at swallowing mobile phones. Drunk, partying, WHOOPS. And whenever a phone is lost, people who use location services to find their lost phones always seem to track it back to the same place: Wayne Dobson's house. But the thing is, Wayne Dobson never stole a phone. Instead, a glitch with the US network Sprint is making it appear as if their phone is inside Dobson's house—even if it's not. Read More >>

Facebook's rolling out a nice little update to their iOS and Android apps today that should make it easier to use the service to find new places of interest for you to waste time and/or money at. Read More >>

The popular iOS version of Google Maps might be about to get Google in trouble with European privacy enforcers, thanks to the way it assumes you're OK with sharing your whereabouts by default. Read More >>

The idea behind Glancee is to use your mobile's location data and Facebook account, combining the two to suggest people you know who are nearby. Facebook liked the concept and, as it did with Instagram, has just bought it. Read More >>

At last, Matt Groening has revealed where The Simpsons is actually located: the actual Springfield is in Oregon, a suburb of Eugene near Portland, the city where Groening grew up. We went through the entire city on Google Street View to find out what the most important locations look like in real life. Read More >>

If, for some reason, you still use Google Latitude, you'll find you can now gain points for your check-ins, meaning you can be ranked on a global leaderboard. Yes, Latitude Leaderboards rips off another idea from Foursquare. The question is, though: who'll bother to use it? Read More >>

"We're doing things a little bit differently," Heather Champ told me*. Read More >>

Good news existing and future Xperia owners – if your phone is packing a Snapdragon S2 or S3 chip (including the Xperia S and Ion) you’re going to get a location boost from GLONASS. All you have to do is be running the latest software on your phone. Read More >>

Facebook has just launched a new feature: Suggested Events. It scrabbles through your account history to find events you might like to attend in real life. But is that a great idea, or will it generate a bunch of irritating spam? Read More >>

GPS is all fine and dandy when you're in an open field; but in a city, GPS starts to falter. The American system isn't the only service with navigation satellites up there in orbit, so why should you be limited to just one? Qualcomm's giving you the choice of two. Read More >>

Nokia's working up some interesting navigation technology to complement its current mapping efforts. One such thread of research is indoor-positioning, which will use Bluetooth 4.0 tags to track position in real-time. Read More >>