Articles tagged with: Skyhook and Wi Fi

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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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

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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

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