20 To Watch In 2010

5 Technologies: Geolocation

Geolocation -- the ability to tie data about physical geography in with Internet-connected devices or systems -- is gaining in popularity, particularly on smartphones such as the iPhone, where users can look up which friends are nearby or where their children are at any given moment. Next up will be a bevy of business-class applications such as ERP or CRM that incorporate the wireless collection of geolocation data for asset tracking.