Articles tagged with: Skyhook Wireless

Mass-Produced 'Bulk Apps' Account for App Store Sales Volumes

Location based services provider, Skyhook Wireless has looked at the Android Marketplace and Apple App Store, and found that in both stores, $0.99 is the most popular paid category, and only a handful of apps sell for $6.00 to $8.99. Some location apps sell for $9.99 or higher in both stores. Most of these high-priced apps are navigation or sports-related like golf and sailing.  more

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Blackberry LBS Apps 4-Times More Expensive Than iPhone, Android LBS Apps

Wi-Fi hotspot based location services provider, Skyhook Wireless has released a report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace and Blackberry App World.  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

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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

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