Unwired Labs, a leading provider of location technologies, announces the release of its Offline Location Library for Android devices. The library enables Android developers to create a faster, more consistent user experience by retrieving location context in milliseconds, even when GPS and internet connectivity are unavailable. “Many mobile apps rely on location to provide a […]
Announcements
Going from “accurate” to “Really accurate”
Traditionally, Cell Tower based locations were fraught with issues of reliability; responses miles away from an actual location, in water bodies and in cases, no response at all. Unwired Labs has done pioneering work to address each of these issues. Our R&D team is happy to announce a major update to internal algorithms. A lot of […]
IWIT Digital and Unwired Labs Partner to Develop Wearable Devices for Children
IWIT Digital and Unwired Labs have entered into a partnership to create location-enabled wearable devices for children. The first of these devices, an intelligent watch with two-way communication capabilities, garnered much attention at the recently held HKTDC Hong Kong Electronics Fair. Leveraging IWIT Digital’s decade of experience manufacturing children’s products and Unwired Labs’ geolocation expertise in […]
NEW: Activity Dashboard for API users
NEW: WiFi Positioning Service
This morning we began rolling out the much awaited WiFi Positioning service to all our customers & developers. The service is built on a large, growing database of over 550 million access-points world over. Best of all, it’s available at no additional charge! What this means for you – if you have products / devices that can detect […]
New: API Availability Dashboard
As an API provider, we believe reliability comes first. Thousands of developers and companies on our platform use our service for non-trivial use cases and we do our bit to ensure high availability. As a responsible company, we believe transparency in our operations comes immediately after reliability. Ask any customer and they’ll vouch for our […]
New global endpoints in Asia, Europe and North America
We have launched new endpoints in Asia (Singapore), USA West (San Francisco) and Europe (Amsterdam). Customers and developers in these regions can now enjoy low-latency access to our API. Along with the existing endpoints in USA East (New York) and Europe (Ireland), this launch increases the count of our global endpoints to 5. The URLs […]
Street Addresses now available on LocationAPI
We’re excited to announce the Street Addresses (or reverse geocoding) feature on LocationAPI. With this launch, you can now request a physical street address along with the geolocation result. To request an address, add the “address” parameter to your JSON request and set it’s value to “1” (without quotes). Please refer to the illustration below: […]
New version of API – LTE support & more!
We’re happy to launch an update version of our API v2. Major changes include: Support for LTE technology with about 350,000 cells from 3 new data providers Reduced server response time to under 15ms New “radio” parameter that supports GSM, CDMA, UMTS and LTE cells Please mail in your feedback to contact[at]unwiredlabs.com; we’d really appreciate […]
6500 users and 3 million API calls!
Our 6500th user signed-up yesterday! That’s not all, we also reached 3 million API calls in the last 24 hours! This from just 100 users and 5000 API calls back in March! We’d like to thank you, dear users, for getting us this far! We’d also like to thank Thomas Edison’s advice that helped us through […]