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Location-Based Services: Technical and Business Issues
White Papers This paper endeavours to provide some background to the technology underlying location-based services and to discuss some issues related to developing and launching LBS. These include whether wireless mobile technologies are ready to support LBS...
[November 18, 2005, 0:00]
Atlantis: Location Based Services With Bluetooth
White Papers In an effort to offer context aware, location based services using the Bluetooth platform specification, a centralized framework has been developed that allows location approximation via sensor data from a ubiquitous Bluetooth sensor network...
[September 20, 2005, 3:00]
Location-based Services
White Papers One of the most powerful ways to personalize mobile services is based on location. This paper will discuss Location Based Services (LBS) and the basis of LBS - location technology. One of the best ways to do accomplish this is through the delivery...
[November 6, 2003, 23:00]
Location-Based Services - A New Experience for Shoppers
White Papers Steen & Strom wanted to investigate the potential of using location-based services to enhance the experience for customers in its shopping malls. Steen & Strom deployed ProCurve Networking and ProGate which developed a WiFi-based digital shopping...
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
Location-based services expected to rocket
News Will 2008 be the year mobile location-based services take off? Meanwhile, revenue will jump from $485.1m (£249m) in 2007 to $1.3bn in 2008, topping $8bn in 2011, according to its Location-Based Services Subscriber and Revenue Forecast, 2006-2011...
[February 12, 2008, 10:29]
Web 2.0: The Potential of RSS and Location Based Services
White Papers This presentation presents Web 2.0: The Potential of RSS and location based services.
[October 6, 2007, 1:00]
Data Semantics in Location-Based Services
White Papers This paper analyzes and registers the data semantics of Location-based Services (LBS). A careful look across the different LBS described by the GSM Group, shows that objects position, location, movement, as well as time characterize all of them...
[November 16, 2005, 0:00]
J2ME and Location-Based Services
White Papers Location-based services (LBS) provide users of mobile devices personalized services tailored to their current location. This paper introduces you to the field of LBS and to the Location API for J2ME (JSR 179), a set of generic APIs that can be used...
[November 25, 2004, 2:00]
Do we really need so many location based services?
Talkback Recently I browsed around about the location-based services (LBS). Quite a few others have different opinion.e.g.http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2008/06/do-we-need-lbs/ http://www.lewebmobile.com/2008/06/do-humans-really-need-location-based.html
[June 13, 2008, 7:27]
Alcatel End-to-End Location-Based Services Solution
White Papers Coordinating positioning requests from a common location server across public (mobile & fixed) and private access environments is seen as the most appropriate model to successfully address location-based services from a user-centric perspective in...
[October 11, 2005, 3:00]
Data Store Issues for Location-Based Services
White Papers Location-Based Services (LBS) provide resources or information based on the user's own location or an indicated location of interest. The paper considers specifically the areas of location representation, gathering location data, assets, location...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Mobile E-Commerce and Location-Based Services: Technology and Requirements
White Papers A special case of M-commerce are Location Based Services (LBS) where often the actual position of the terminal is used in the service provision. Advances in Internet and network technology and the rapidly growing number of mobile personal devices...
[January 12, 2006, 0:01]
When Location-Based Services Meet Databases
White Papers As Location-Based Services (LBSs) grow to support a larger and larger user community and to provide more and more intelligent services, they must face a few fundamental challenges, including the ability to not only accept coordinates as location...
[May 12, 2006, 1:00]
Adding Location-Based Services to Existing Architectures: Building Feature-Rich Mobile Telephony Applications Using Intel NetStructure Signaling Components
White Papers This paper provides an overall view of Location-Based Services (LBS), describes the signaling and technology involved, and discusses how Intel's signaling product building blocks can be used to implement such services.
[December 26, 2006, 0:00]
Lampposts to provide location-based services?
News In what could sound like a tale from the heady days of the dot-com boom, a UK-based company is pushing ahead with plans to roll out high-speed wireless networks and location-based services using street lampposts.
[March 23, 2005, 16:55]
GTX Corp Brings Personal Location-Based Services to the Masses With Google Maps API Premier
White Papers It has made GTX's Personal Location Services highly accessible and recognizable to partners and consumers. GTX offers miniaturized assisted Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) tracking and cellular location-transmitting technology for consumer...
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
Wi-Fi Location-Based Services - Design and Deployment Considerations
White Papers This white paper comprehensively discusses the Cisco Location-Based Service solution and the recommended best practices for design, configuration, installation, and deployment. 802.11 wireless has truly blossomed in the past decade, moving from a...
[December 14, 2006, 0:00]
Cisco steps up location-based services
News Cisco Location Solution, which is available immediately, capitalises on chokepoints — bottlenecks such as doorways or hallways — to improve how moving assets are tracked by sending out a notification whenever an RFID-tagged object or asset passes...
[May 22, 2007, 16:48]
Location-Based Services Using CellID
White Papers As the mobile device moves from one position to another, it generally connects to a base station that offers the best signal (though this decision can be based on a number of criteria). Past papers have discussed how to interface with GPS receivers...
[November 28, 2008, 23:00]
Loopt previews location-based iPhone app
News At Apple's WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Sam Altman, chief executive of Loopt, previews a new application for the iPhone that uses location-based services. The new app blends social networks with the Maps application, so you can see where your...
[June 10, 2008, 13:32]
