Mozilla launches location-based services via mobile phone base stations and WiFi hotspots

"Sohu It News" October 29, Mozilla local time in Monday launched a "Mozilla positioning Services" (Mozilla Location Service) pilot project, the purpose is based on mobile phone base station and WiFi hotspot signal to provide users with positioning services. Mozilla acknowledges that there are many commercial location-based services, but it wants to provide a public positioning service. At present, Mozilla positioning service is still in the early stage of development, covering only part of the region, there will be a lot of work to do in the future. That's why Mozilla wants more users to help it develop the project. Mozilla says Mozilla's location-based services are "fast", and users are "quick" to use fully functional services. In addition, Mozilla also publishes APIs (application programming interfaces), which means that developers can use Mozilla to locate service data. It is also difficult to predict how the Mozilla positioning service will be used. Mozilla said that GPS (Global positioning System) weak mobile phones, GPS-free notebook users, can use Mozilla positioning services to quickly determine their approximate location. However, the industry pointed out that Mozilla positioning services will be more useful in the future. Mozilla says it will strengthen the privacy capabilities of Mozilla's location-based services to ensure that user privacy is not violated.