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Articles tagged with: Abi Research and Indoor
Despite Being Over-Hyped, Location-Based Advertising Offers Opportunities
Location-based advertising is gaining momentum as a new advertising medium. It provides more targeted and efficient marketing tools for advertisers and represents an additional revenue source for LBS (location based services) vendors, allowing them to offer free ad-funded navigation and LBS services that stimulate uptake and/or increase their profitability. more
Related Tags: google, nokia, social-networking, privacy, lbs, location-based-services, navigation, seamless
Picocells’ Future Linked to Femtocells and the SMB Market
Much attention has been devoted to femtocells' potential to improve indoor cellular coverage. But an older technology, the picocell, has existed for about a decade. Picocells provide larger coverage and capacity than femtocells, which should make them well suited to small and medium businesses. Yet global shipments of picocells will total only about 18,000 this year. Why haven't picocells gained greater market share, and what can vendors do about it? more
Related Tags: base-station, wind, picocell, femtocells, handover
Universities Saying "Yes" to Wi-Fi 802.11n Standard
Universities, already early-adopters of earlier flavors of Wi-Fi, are also leading the charge towards 802.11n, especially in North America. 802.11n is a proposed amendment which improves upon the previous 802.11 standards by adding multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and many other newer features. Though there are already many products on the market based on Draft 2.0 of this proposal, the TGn workgroup is not expected to finalize the amendment until December 2009. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, cisco, 802.11n, 802.11, square
Location-based Mobile Social Networking Will Generate Revenues of $3.3 Billion by 2013
The recent emergence of location-based mobile social networking services offered by providers such as GyPSii, Pelago and Loopt is revolutionizing social networking by allowing users to share real-life experiences via geo-tagged user-generated multimedia content, exchange recommendations about places, identify nearby friends and set up ad hoc face to face meetings. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, social-networking, samsung, privacy, gps, skyhook, garmin, us-cellular, instant-messaging, indoor-coverage, loopt, wi-fi-
Over 550 Million GPS-Enabled Handsets Will Ship by 2012
In the wake of personal navigation devices' success, cellular carriers have started to offer on-board and off-board navigation solutions, as well as a range of LBS (Location Based Services) such as friend finder and local search on GPS handsets. Community and social-networking-related functionality, such as the sharing of POIs (Points of Interest) and geo-tagged pictures, is also becoming popular and is expected to boost GPS-enabled handset uptake as carriers, handsets manufacturers, and service providers look to capitalize on the LBS trend. more
Related Tags: broadcom, wi-fi, bluetooth, smartphones, gps, lbs, a-gps, chipsets, chipset, navigation, feature-phones
GPS Devices and Systems Will Generate Revenues of $240 Billion by 2013
GPS satellite technology is becoming increasingly important as it is being embedded in an ever-wider range of mobile consumer devices to enable navigation and Location Based Services. While GPS handsets and in-vehicle navigation systems will remain the most lucrative markets, industrial applications such as network timing, land surveying, and machine control are quickly gaining momentum. By 2013 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) end-user devices and systems will generate yearly revenues of $240 billion. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, gps, satellite, glonass, galileo, navigation, military, gnss
Fixed Mobile Convergence Market Set to Expand to 250 Million Users by 2012
Operators are now rolling out converged services on fixed and mobile networks, converting trials to commercial deployments. 2008 will see another spate of trials, as femtocell technology begins to become available. more
Related Tags: voip, femtocell, 3gpp, fmc, femtocells, indoor-coverage, mobile-voip, sip
Wholesale Price of GPS-Enabled Handsets to Fall under $200 by 2010
Presently, most handsets with integrated GPS are smartphones or high-end feature phones, with wholesale prices in the range of $250 to $500. However, chipset manufacturers now have solutions in place that will permit the integration of GPS in handsets at lower costs, and provide significant improvements in terms of accuracy, time-to-first-fix, and reception in indoor environments. As a result, the wholesale ASP (Average Selling Price) of GPS-enabled handsets will fall under $200 by 2010. more
Related Tags: broadcom, wcdma, bluetooth, gps, smartphones, samsung, csr, sirf, chipset, nokia,, motorola,
Nokia Siemens Teams with Ubiquisys to market 3G Femtocells
Nokia Siemens Networks has signed an agreement with Ubiquisys to cooperate in the marketing and sales of 3G femtocells to mobile operators worldwide. Ubiquisys' ZoneGate femtocell supports industry standard interfaces and conforms to Nokia Siemens Networks' Femto Gateway's open architecture. more
Related Tags: core-network, nokia-siemens-networks, femtocell, ubiquisys, femtocells
picoChip Introduces TD-SCDMA Femtocell Reference Design
picoChip has launched a TD-SCDMA based femtocell reference design, the first to support this standard. The new design was developed in China at picoChip's Beijing design center. With this introduction picoChip now supports all three 3G standards families: WCDMA (HSPA) through the picoChip PC8208/8209, cdma2000 via GWT partnership, and now TD-SCDMA with the PC8808. picoChip also supports WiMAX Waves 1 and 2 with its PC6530 and PC6532 single chip reference designs respectively. more
Related Tags: wcdma, td-scdma, core-network, hsupa, femtocell, cdma2000, femtocells, picochip, China
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