fire eagle

Yahoo has launched Fire Eagle, a location management service that is the latest step in the company’s effort to add social networking features to its portfolio of sites and open its platform.

The Internet company unveils Fire Eagle, a service that lets consumers broadcast their location to scores of Internet-based services.

By Michael V. Copeland

At ETech this morning, a nervous Tom Coates announced that Yahoo's geolocation service Fire Eagle was leaving the nest, and he began handing out invitation codes to the product's private beta.