Articles tagged with: Skyhook and Ims

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

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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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