Articles tagged with: Nokia and Location Based Services

Chinese Location-based Social App Jiepang Promotes NFC Check-ins with Nokia

­Chinese location-based social app, Jiepang is teaming up with nokia to promote NFC check-ins, a faster way to "check in" and share locations with friends using a special Jiepang app preloaded on the newly launched nokia smartphones: nokia 600, nokia 700 and nokia 701.  more

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NAVTEQ Traffic Announces Integration of Nokia GPS Data

Digital mapping provider, NAVTEQ has announced that GPS data from nokia handsets is now being integrated into its Traffic branded products in Europe and North America.  more

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Mobile Indoor Positioning trial launched at Helsinki Shopping Center

..l, users with a web enabled S60 device can download it at http://kamppi.nokia.mobi and by selecting ‘positioning’. The trial application can also be downloaded from Nokia Beta Labs. “The results from the trial so far have been extremely positi more

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Alternative Positioning Technologies the Key to Unlocking the Handset

While GPS has become a standard feature in smartphones driven by the popularity of mapping, navigation and LBS applications, GPS penetration in feature phones remains low outside the US. Despite nokia’s announcement of GPS-enabled S40 phones such as the 6700 classic and the 6600i slide, it will take several years before GPS becomes widespread in mid- and low-end handsets in Europe and Asia.  more

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EU-Funded Study Warns of GPS Phone Privacy Concerns

At a time when privacy issues are higher on the news agenda than ever, the EU-funded Network of Excellence FIDIS (Future of Identity in the Information Society) is urging users to safeguard their digital identity and privacy, especially when using mobile technologies. The team is particularly concerned that, in the wake of Apple's ‘Thanks a Billion' campaign to celebrate the billionth download from the App Store, consumers are still not aware of the potential privacy issues involved with these technologies.  more

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Nokia's Mothballed Projects to Get Dusted Off and Reused

Unused ideas that nokia has decided not to develop are to be farmed out to Finnish ICT companies, under a deal announced between the firm and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. Science park operator, Technopolis is also involved in the partnership.  more

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Operators Lose Prime Position for Location Based Services

Wireless carriers are increasingly losing control of location-based service provision to Internet companies such as Google and Yahoo, and to handset vendors like nokia, according to Strategy Analytics.  more

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Two Updated Handsets from Nokia

Since the first nokia Navigator made its appearance two years ago, the company has been updating and improving its location based services steadily and has now introduced the latest arrival in its Navigator line, the nokia 6710 Navigator. Another new arrival is the nokia 6720 classic - a traditional candybar phone.  more

Related Tags: eu, ict, gps, ovi, flash, display, maps, navigation, taxes, 3d


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, social-networking, privacy, abi-research, lbs, indoor, navigation, seamless


GPS Smartphones Generating Renewed Momentum for the LBS Infrastructure Industry

The recent launches of GPS-enabled smartphones with touch screen interfaces such as Apple's iPhone, the BlackBerry Storm, the T-Mobile G1, nokia's 5800 XpressMusic, and Sony Ericsson'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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