Google Memo Reveals Importance of Android Location Database
Just how important is location-based data to Google? Just how important is it for the sun to rise each morning? Same deal.
This question comes in the wake of eyes turning toward mobile handsets—specifically, Apple's iPhone and smartphones based on Google's Android OS—for the information they collect about the various wireless access points and cell phone towers the devices connect to (or notice) throughout the course of a given day.