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Articles tagged with: Lbs
E112 and A-GPS will revive the LBS platform and middleware market
According to a new report from the telecom analyst firm Berg Insight, the market for lbs platforms and middleware in Europe will return to growth in the coming years, with demand driven by E112 requirements and increasing adoption of A-GPS. more
Related Tags: google, smartphone, smartphones, gps, a-gps
Third of iPhone Owners Used a Location Based Service in Q4 2008
US based mobile social network site, Limbo and GfK Technology have published a Mobile Advertising Report (MAR), which reveals that iPhone users are more than twice as likely as non-iPhone users to browse the mobile Web and more than three times as likely to use a location-based service (lbs) or a location-based social network. more
Related Tags: iphone, sms, mobile-data, mobile-advertising, gfk-technology, seven, gfk, USA
Puerto Rican Operator Orders Location Based Services Platform
TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) says that Puerto Rico based mobile operator, Centennial PR has signed a four-year contract for end-to-end location-based services (lbs) including customized Spanish and English navigation and mapping applications. TCS says that it supports more than 50 wireless carrier in-network deployments of public safety and lbs in North America, Europe and the Pacific, and also serves carriers in North America and India with hosted lbs infrastructure. 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
Related Tags: google, nokia, social-networking, privacy, abi-research, location-based-services
Genasys Wins Location Based Services Contract in Pakistan
Genasys says that it has signed an agreement with the firm CellTrack for a lbs project in Pakistan. CellTrack will launch, from the first quarter of 2009, location based services (lbs) in Pakistan. CellTrack has signed agreements with two operators, Ufone and Zong, to launch lbs in this country and it is currently into negotiations to extend the services to other operators. more
Related Tags: china-mobile, gsm, ufone, zong, Pakistan
GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry
The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as AppleÃ's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, NokiaÃ's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony EricssonÃ'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
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, wi-fi, t-mobile, nokia, iphone, smartphone, apple, apple, smartphones, gps, abi-research, ericsson, location-based-services, blackberry, personal, sony, a-gps, e911, personal-navigation-devices, displays, xperia
Qualcomm To Enable Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning on gpsOne Platform
Skyhook Wireless, maker of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) and XPS 2.0 hybrid positioning system, has announced that Qualcomm has taken a license to distribute Skyhook's WPS and incorporate the technology into its gpsOne positioning technology platforms. Skyhook's WPS solution will deliver Wi-Fi positioning for gpsOne and enable hybrid location positioning capabilities on select future platforms. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, iphone, apple, apple, qualcomm, edge, gps, skyhook
Location Ecosystem Still Looking for Sustainable Growth and Viable Business Model
Despite the relative success of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) and industrial GPS applications, the location ecosystem has yet to reach a mature stage as it continues to encounter challenges on its way to continued profitable growth. While penetration levels of consumer telematics and lbs services remain low, the more established product categories suffer from price erosion and dwindling margin levels as evidenced by the recent financial results of PND vendor TomTom. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, social-networking, rsa, gps, wind, abi-research, personal, pnd, telematics, pnds, personal-navigation-devices
82 Million Location-based Mobile Social Networking Subscriptions by 2013
Mobile location-based social networking is expected to become a key driver for the uptake of location-based services as it provides a unifying framework for a large set of applications such as friend finders, local search and geo-tagging. While many lbs applications will include features allowing the sharing of real-time experiences via fixed social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, fully-fledged mobile location-based social networking sites will also gain momentum with more than 82 million subscriptions expected by 2013. more
Related Tags: intel, social-networking, edge, gps, abi-research, pnds
Growing demand for location-based services in advanced mobile markets
Location-based services (lbs) in Asia-Pacific are expected to see strong growth in the next five years, with wider adoption in the more advanced and saturated mobile and mobile data markets. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the mobile lbs market covering 13 Asia-Pac countries earned revenues of US$383.6 million in 2007 and expects this to reach US$2.8 billion by end-2013, at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 39.3 percent (2007-2013). more
Related Tags: sms, mobile-data, wimax, roaming, privacy, gps, driving, hspa, mobile-broadband, mobile-advertising, Japan