Articles tagged with: Skyhook

Norton Adds Location Tracking from Skyhook for Anti-Theft Services

Wi-Fi based location provider, skyhook says that Norton has added its location technology to the Norton Anti-Theft product. more

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Skyhook Navigation Embedded into MapQuest Android Apps

Location based services provider, skyhook says that it will start embedding its Core Engine into the AOL MapQuest Android application. 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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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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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 skyhook's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) by Symbian's LBS architecture, enabling fast and accurate location acquisition in urban and indoor environments. more

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

Spoofing the Location Finder in Apple's iPhone

In January, skyhook Wireless announced that Apple would use skyhook'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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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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