MaxMind is an internet mapping firm that matches IP addresses to physical locations. The practice is still a work in progress, and is not at all a reliable means of location information – sometimes, ...

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog—but they might now have an easy time finding your kennel. The researchers, led by Yong Wang, used a variety of statistical techniques to combine data from ...

Since the IP address is allocated to some extent based on geographical information, it is possible to determine the location information "from where to access". However, this precision varies, ...