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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]
Location Manager
Downloads Location Manager is an application for the Palm Computing® 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]
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]
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]
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-based services expected to rocket
News Will 2008 be the year mobile location-based services take off? Meanwhile, revenue will jump from $485.1m (Ł249m) 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 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]
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]
Microsoft to open up mobile phone location data
News Microsoft is planning to deliver mobile phone location-based data to developers through a partnership between its MapPoint Location Server (MLS) and several network operators, including O2 in the UK. When Zingo created its taxi-hailing service...
[June 29, 2004, 18:50]
A Java-Based Programming Language Support of Location Management in Pervasive Systems
White Papers Pervasive systems research indicated the need for five main cornerstone features in support for conducting efficient pervasive systems development activities, namely programming language support for context, location, actors, sensors, and events.
[January 9, 2009, 0:00]
Wireless LAN Based Vehicular Location Information Processing
White Papers It causes difference of signal strength distribution according to installation location of wireless LAN antenna. This paper focused on environmental signal like wireless signal which can observe from outside of vehicle.
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Vermont Tourism Website Builds Business With Location Solution
White Papers Microsoft MapPoint Web Service was integrated into the state's tourism website to deliver comprehensive lodging, dining, event and attraction location information. Vermont's Department of Tourism and Marketing is responsible for promoting statewide...
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
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]
Balancing the Accuracy and Practicality of Location Tracking in Heterogeneous Mobile Networks
White Papers Location tracking has several applications in mobile (cellular or ad hoc) networks, such as location-based routing algorithms and consumer services. It is often difficult to precisely compute the location of a node because of the infrastructure...
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
Experiences With Place Lab: An Open Source Toolkit for Location-Aware Computing
White Papers Location-Based Computing (LBC) is becoming increasingly important in both industry and academia. A key challenge is the pervasive deployment of LBC technologies; to be effective they must run on a wide variety of client platforms, including laptops...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Efficient Location Area Planning for Personal Communication Systems
White Papers Network mobility management, and in particular, location management, consumes a significant portion of bandwidth, which is a necessary overhead for supporting mobile users. The paper presents the first polynomial time approximation algorithms for...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
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]
