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]
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]
Location Management in Mobile Networks: Comparison and Analysis
White Papers This paper presents the comparison of four main location management methods in mobile networks by actualizing these management methods and comparing the results in the most important paradigms for location management in cellular networks.
[September 22, 2006, 2:29]
Location X
Downloads Finally, a location manager for Mac OS X! Location X brings the wildly popular Location Manager functionality from Mac OS 9 to Apple's latest and greatest operating system, Mac OS X. Location X allows you to, with a single click, change...
[January 28, 2008, 6:00]
Location Partner on the Road to Building Business
White Papers Using the power of MapPoint Web Service, the company is developing location solutions for government, retail and education customers. Competitive Computing, Inc.is a consulting firm offering strategic planning, application development, website...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
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 owns or manages 52 shopping malls in Scandinavia.
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
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. In this age of significant telecommunications competition, mobile...
[November 6, 2003, 23:00]
Oracle Locator: Location-Enabling Every Oracle Database
White Papers Oracle Locator, a feature of Oracle Database (Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, and Enterprise Edition), provides native data management, query, and analysis of location data, accessible through standard SQL.
[September 1, 2009, 1:23]
Location Manager
Downloads Location Manager is an application for the Palm ComputingĀ® platform. As the Pilot has developed, more and more applications have become dependent on the user's location and time zone settings. It is inconvenient to have to set these...
[March 3, 2007, 6:00]
Google Android developers push location-based apps
News Expect there to be at least one application incorporating location-based services in the upcoming Android phone. In accordance with the recent interest around location-based services, a wave of such applications made it through to the first round...
[May 19, 2008, 8:46]
The Location Intelligent Enterprise
White Papers With enterprises having access to ever greater volumes of historic data, to get maximum value from it they need to make use of the location element in order to drive deeper business insights to improve competitiveness and business performance.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Use Location Information in Enterprise Reporting
White Papers Location information is everywhere; it can be found across all lines of business, all industries, and in virtually every organization and department in the world. Although location information is essential, it is seldom ultimately used to integrate...
[October 13, 2006, 0:00]
Alcatel End-to-End Location-Based Services Solution
White Papers Gone are the days when location was a feature only of interest to mobile operators. Industry trends towards fixed/mobile and private/public application convergence are transforming location into an all-round service enabler, which drives the usage...
[October 11, 2005, 3:00]
Preserving User Location Privacy in Mobile Data Management Infrastructures
White Papers Location-based services, such as finding the nearest gas station, require users to supply their location information. However, a user's location can be tracked without her consent or knowledge. Lowering the spatial and temporal resolution of...
[November 2, 2008, 23:00]
In-Building Location Using Bluetooth
White Papers This paper presents a new system for indoor location of a mobile device based on bluetooth technology. Bluetooth access points of a network are used for the location system and to access the network. Location is made by means of the signal strength...
[October 18, 2005, 3:00]
Devices keep finger on wearer's pulse, location
News It sees you when you're sleeping and when you're awake -- and it can keep track of your heart rate, body temperature and geographic location. No word yet on whether that means it knows if you've been bad or good.
[December 5, 2001, 6:30]
A Study of Frequency Interference and Indoor Location Sensing With 802.11b and Bluetooth Technologies
White Papers Several technologies such as infrared sensing, radio frequency, ultrasonic and RFIDs have been proposed for indoor location sensing. Recently there has been an increase in the use of commodity wireless technologies like 802.11 or Bluetooth for...
[July 9, 2007, 1:11]
Design and Scalability of NLS, a Scalable Naming and Location Service
White Papers This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and evaluation of NLS, a scalable naming and location service. NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a set of replicated objects associated with that name, and is designed...
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
Satellite-Based Location: The Technological Challenges
White Papers Satellite-based location will shape the future, creating new applications. Besides emergency call location, and navigation in cars and on mobile phones, a range of new services will appear in the people's life: personal assistance and medical care...
[November 30, 2006, 0:00]



