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Articles tagged with: Abi Research and Location Based Services
As LBS Subscribers Multiply, Sustainable Business Models Emerging
The number of subscribers to handset-hosted location based services (LBS) increased in 2008 to more than 18 million. North America continued to be the dominant region, accounting for slightly more than two-thirds of the total market, according to a new study from ABI Research. While navigation continued to lead in terms of total subscribers, two other application areas enterprise and community (including social networking) posted the highest year-to-year growth rates. more
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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
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GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry
The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as AppleĆ's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, NokiaĆ's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony EricssonĆ's Xperia X1 are fueling interest in handset-based navigation and location based services (LBS) despite the worsening economic climate. In turn this drives both third party LBS application development and the roll out of LBS infrastructure by carriers to support the much needed Secure User Plane Location (SUPL)-compliant Assisted GPS functionality. more
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Asia Navigation Device Shipments to Exceed 185 Million in 2012
Lower-priced PNDs and GPS-enabled handsets helped the Asian navigation market to prosper in 2007, and total shipments topped 39 million for the year. That figure is expected to exceed 185 million in 2012, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. more
NIM Claims Two Million Paid Mobile Phone Navigation Subscribers
The location based services provider, Networks In Motion (NIM) says that it has now surpassed two million paid users of its real-time navigation and local search services on GPS-enabled mobile phones based on the company's LBS NavBuilder platform. more