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iPhone apps help save councils millions

...has said that councils saved more than £200m last year by using location-based technology to manage services. In a report published on Saturday, the... Read more

7 September, 2010 by Kable

Apple: iPhone data used to build Wi-Fi hotspot database

...the time of writing. The collection of Wi-Fi hotspot data for location-based services was also the reason given by Google when it was... Read more

27 April, 2011 by David Meyer

Apple fixes iOS 4 location data caching 'bug'

iOS 4.3.3 update cuts stored location data down to size... Read more

5 May, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Skyhook sues Google over contract 'interference'

The web giant has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that it violated patents and interfered with the location-positioning service's contract with Motorola Read more

16 September, 2010 by Tom Krazit
Enhancing Credibility of <endeca_term>Location Based</endeca_term> Service Using Multiple Sensing Technologies

Enhancing Credibility of Location Based Service Using Multiple Sensing Technologies

Recent Location Based Services (LBSs) extend not only information services such as car navigation... Read more

4 March, 2011
Location Cheating: A Security Challenge to <endeca_term>Location-Based</endeca_term> Social Network Services

Location Cheating: A Security Challenge to Location-Based Social Network Services

Location-based mobile social network services such as foursquare and Gowalla have grown... Read more

21 February, 2011
Formal Analysis of Privacy for Anonymous <endeca_term>Location Based</endeca_term> Services

Formal Analysis of Privacy for Anonymous Location Based Services

The authors propose a framework for formal analysis of privacy in location based services such as anonymous electronic toll collection. They give a formal... Read more

3 February, 2011
Highly Available <endeca_term>Location-Based</endeca_term> Services in Mobile Environments

Highly Available Location-Based Services in Mobile Environments

...how to use Web Services standards for propagation, discovery, and composition of location-based services in mobile environments. To achieve semantic interoperability the authors express... Read more

1 January, 2011
Anonymous Usage of <endeca_term>Location-Based</endeca_term> Services Through Spatial and Temporal Cloaking

Anonymous Usage of Location-Based Services Through Spatial and Temporal Cloaking

Advances in sensing and tracking technology enable location-based applications but they also create significant privacy risks. Anonymity can provide... Read more

1 January, 2011
Crowds Replace Experts: Building Better <endeca_term>Location-Based</endeca_term> Services Using Mobile Social Network Interactions

Crowds Replace Experts: Building Better Location-Based Services Using Mobile Social Network Interactions

Location-based services are growing in popularity due to the ubiquity of smartphone... Read more

14 November, 2010

Advertisers checking in to location-based mobile marketing

Mobile location-based ad market to be worth $1.8bn in 2015, says analyst... Read more

7 September, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
Trust No One: A Decentralized Matching Service for Privacy in <endeca_term>Location Based</endeca_term> Services

Trust No One: A Decentralized Matching Service for Privacy in Location Based Services

The authors propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a "Trusted" entity. They observe... Read more

30 August, 2010
Utilizing Social Links for Location Privacy in Opportunistic Delay-Tolerant Networks

Utilizing Social Links for Location Privacy in Opportunistic Delay-Tolerant Networks

This paper is concerned with improving location-privacy for users accessing location-based services in opportunistic DTNs. The authors design a protocol that offers... Read more

3 February, 2012
INCOG Query Processing in Networks

INCOG Query Processing in Networks

Advances in sensing and tracking technology enable location-based applications but they also create significant privacy risks. Anonymity can provide... Read more

2 October, 2011
Campus-Wide Indoor Tracking Infrastructure

Campus-Wide Indoor Tracking Infrastructure

In the context of large-scale indoor spaces location-based services still lack a feasible technology for localization and tracking in... Read more

15 September, 2011

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