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Articles tagged with: Skyhook
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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Game-Changing Moves Strengthen Consumer LBS in North America
The consumer location-based services (LBS) market has steadily evolved over the past few years, always promising significant revenue generation, but never quite delivering the critical mass of subscribers that were expected. Now, a number of factors - including the development of third-party location databases and technologies - are poised to finally drive real LBS market growth on mobile phones. more
Related Tags: google, wi-fi, microsoft, nokia, iphone, sms, apple, itu, gps, tim, ovi, lbs, e-911, skyhook-wireless, a-gps, USA
Fewer than 10% of LBS Developers Will Port Apps to Palm & Symbian
Developers of location aware applications are not interested in creating apps for the Palm WebOS or Symbian platforms, according to a survey conducted by skyhook Wireless, provider of the hybrid location system XPS. High quality location results are key for these developers, who are using location to enable over 20 different types of applications. more
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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
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Skyhook Wireless Brings Wi-Fi Location to Symbian OS
skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) has demonstrated Wi-Fi positioning on the latest version of Symbian OS, v9.5. The collaborative work between the two partner companies demonstrates support for skyhookÃ's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) by SymbianÃ's LBS architecture, enabling fast and accurate location acquisition in urban and indoor environments. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, social-networking, smartphone, rural, gps, lbs, location-based-services, a-gps, symbian, ims
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, abi-research, garmin, us-cellular, instant-messaging, indoor-coverage
Spoofing the Location Finder in Apple's iPhone
In January, skyhook Wireless announced that Apple would use skyhookÃ's WiFi Positioning System (WPS) for its popular Map applications. The WPS database contains information on access points throughout the world. skyhook itself provides most of the data in the database, with users contributing via direct entries to the database, and requests for localization. more
Related Tags: ipod, skyhook-wireless, wlan
Is iPhone's Wi-Fi Based Location Finder Better than GPS?
This week, Steve Jobs announced that the iPhone will feature skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi location technology in a joint development with Google. It is easy to write this off as a stop gap solution for GPS, but for me, this is a first step towards the next generation of cellular location technology. more
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Apple Announces Updates to the iPhone
At the Macworld conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the company had sold 4 million units of its iPhone handset since it was launched exactly 200 days ago. He noted that was 20,000 phones sold per day, on average. more
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