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Facebook shuts Gowalla <endeca_term>location service</endeca_term>

Facebook shuts Gowalla location service

The location-sharing service, bought by Facebook in December, has closed down, posting a farewell note on its website Read more

12 March, 2012 by Steven Musil

RIM adds non-GPS location service to BlackBerry Locate

Research In Motion (RIM) announced on Monday that it has updated its Locate Service with a Geolocation feature which... Read more

20 July, 2010
Proactive <endeca_term>Location Service</endeca_term> in Mobility Management

Proactive Location Service in Mobility Management

...HLR) of the called user, the proposed method provides a special proactive location service to the close friends, who satisfy certain characteristics, of a user... Read more

1 April, 2011
Energy-Efficient <endeca_term>Location Service</endeca_term> Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Energy-Efficient Location Service Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

...which provide the position information of the desired destination node. Although several location service schemes have been proposed, their main goal is merely to find... Read more

27 February, 2011
Geographical Routing With <endeca_term>Location Service</endeca_term> in Intermittently Connected MANETs

Geographical Routing With Location Service in Intermittently Connected MANETs

...paper, the authors propose a geographical routing algorithm LAROD enhanced with a location service LoDiS, together shown to suit an Intermittently Connected MANET (ICMANET Read more

15 November, 2010
Vienna <endeca_term>Location Service</endeca_term> 1.0.1

Vienna Location Service 1.0.1

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8 October, 2011
Expected Routing Overhead for <endeca_term>Location Service</endeca_term> in MANETs Under Flat Geographic Routing

Expected Routing Overhead for Location Service in MANETs Under Flat Geographic Routing

A Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that construct and maintain a network without a... Read more

1 July, 2010
Impact of Broadcasting Directions in SDLS for Wireless Sensor Networks

Impact of Broadcasting Directions in SDLS for Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, the authors discuss Sink-oriented Dynamic Location Service (SDLS) in wireless sensor networks. Since the data is collected by... Read more

1 July, 2011
Optimal Stochastic Location Updates in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Optimal Stochastic Location Updates in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The authors consider the location service in a Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET), where each node needs... Read more

1 May, 2011

Sony Xperia GPS adds Russian GLONASS satellites

...GLONASS, as well as GPS. Image credit: CNET UK The combination satellite location service is only currently available on new Xperia handsets — such as the... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Ben Woods

Virgin employs its fibre network for co-location services

...services with guarantees of connectivity and uptime. The Virgin Media Business co-location service, announced on Thursday, is underpinned by 11 ICM datacentres that are... Read more

19 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Microsoft stops tracking specific Windows Phones

...to eliminate the use and storage of unique device identifiers by our location service when collecting information about these landmarks," he said. "Without a unique... Read more

10 May, 2011
Walt Disney World Touring Guide 1.0

Walt Disney World Touring Guide 1.0

...dining options Disney has to offer by filtering by theme park, mealtime, location, service type, cuisine type and more Full dining menus for all theme... Read more

24 May, 2012
Cool Movies! 1.0

Cool Movies! 1.0

...via iTunes File Sharing Share movies and images from Camera Roll when location service is on---------------------------------------------Check out www.YouTube.com/CoolMoviesApp and www.CoolMoviesApp... Read more

24 May, 2012
Starlight - Mobile Planetarium 1.1

Starlight - Mobile Planetarium 1.1

...and later, iPod 3rd Gen, and the iPad. You must have the Location Service enabled for the application to work properly._______________________________________Starlight is an ever... Read more

21 May, 2012

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