If your smartphone couldn’t rely on its Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS), its location abilities would be slower and less accurate. However, WPS can prove dangerous when it exposes your whereabouts.

Chipmaker strikes a deal with Skyhook Wireless to use its Wi-Fi positioning technology in its chips for mobile devices. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET ...

Broadcom already makes a boatload of the GPS chips found in mobile phones and other location-aware gadgets, and now they’re adding Skyhook’s Wi-Fi positioning service to most of their mobile Wi-Fi ...