location
RSS locationLocation-based Android apps take home the money
News Each of the 10 big winners jumped on the location-aware bandwagon in some way with their applications. GoCart turns a scan of a product's bar code into a comparison-shopping exercise using data from stores near your... [01 Sep 2008]
Location-Based Services - A New Experience for Shoppers
White Paper 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. [12 Jun 2009]
Location-Based Asset Tracking Reduces Costs for Cisco Manufacturing
White Paper Cisco Global Supply Chain Management (GCSM) and Contract Manufacturers (CM) wanted to gain visibility and control of manufacturing equipment owned by Cisco at 13 CM facilities and reduces physical inventory and maintenance costs by... [04 Nov 2008]
Location-based services set to boom
News Is 2008 the year mobile location-based services take off? And revenue will jump from $485.1m in 2007 to $1,307.3m in 2008 topping $8bn in 2011, according to its Location-Based Services Subscriber and... [11 Feb 2008]
Location-based Services
White Paper 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... [25 Feb 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Location-based services
Cheat Sheet Is this location finding stuff just another mobile gimmick, like WAP? Seven out of 10 people surveyed by Forrester Research in September 2000 who voted for future mobile phone services favoured content that required... [02 Jan 2002]
Location-aware phones to earn €622m by 2010
News Location, location, location. Mobile operators have seen more than their fair share of false dawns as far as location-based services (LBS) are concerned but analysts... [18 Sep 2006]
Location-based services mean business
News Location-based services (LBS) are not just going to be big news for consumers - with the likes of friend finders and local search - but are set to play an increasingly important role in enterprise. As GSM handsets with... [17 Jul 2008]
Location-Based Flooding Techniques for Vehicular Emergency Messaging
White Paper In addition to application-layer backoff delay and duplicate message suppression mechanisms, location-based backoff techniques have been proposed for vehicular networks. The paper proposes a new hybrid method of... [10 Aug 2007]
Location-Aware In-Network Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper This paper presents a data-centric and location-aware procedure to perform in-network evaluation of queries in sensor networks. Wireless Sensor Networks offer new prospects for pervasive monitoring of natural and... [23 Apr 2009]
Location Management in Mobile Networks: Comparison and Analysis
White Paper 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... [22 Sep 2006]
Location-Based MAC Protocols for Mobile Wireless Networks
White Paper One protocol is a simple slotted Aloha protocol with spatial reuse; the second protocol uses location information to determine the channel access. This paper considers Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for mobile ad... [23 Aug 2007]
PILOT: A Power-Aware, Location Driven Traffic Forwarding Algorithm for MANETs
White Paper This paper presents PILOT, a new data-forwarding algorithm for ad-hoc networks, that takes into consideration the change in location of the destination over time. PILOT is also power-aware and the rate of increase of the... [31 Aug 2007]
The Location Intelligent Enterprise
White Paper 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... [10 Oct 2007]
Wi-Fi location system is better than GPS, says start-up
News For one, it could be useful in helping voice over IP providers comply with a federal mandate to have location based services for E911.Craig Mathias, a principal at Farpoint Group, a consultancy specialising in wireless... [21 Jun 2005]
