Category: Location-Based Service
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Great Example About Rethinking Your Business: Foursquare de-emphasizing check-ins to enter big data
Are you willing to completely revamp you’re current business model and user flow within an existing application? That’s exactly what Foursquare did with their most recent release. From a user standpoint and being one of the original people to help develop the check-in technologies, viagra I’m excited about many of the changes. These shifts are interesting…
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Mobile Year in Review 2010
FRAMINGHAM, approved Mass., December 2, 2010 – Transformation has been a recurring theme in the annual International Data Corporation (IDC) Predictions over the past several years. During this time, a wave of disruptive technologies has emerged and evolved, forged by the pressures of a global economic recession. In 2011, and certainly beyond, IDC expects these…
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Mobile platforms and location-based networks could take social marketing to the next level
Apple released guidelines for determining what programs can be sold on its App Store, online after more than two years of complaints from developers that the company’s policy was secret and capricious. The guidelines go a long way towards addressing many of the complaints, here however, there are still a number of grey areas. Apple…
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Apple publishes guidelines for app approval
Apple released guidelines for determining what programs can be sold on its App Store, online after more than two years of complaints from developers that the company’s policy was secret and capricious. The guidelines go a long way towards addressing many of the complaints, here however, there are still a number of grey areas. Apple…
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Dell Streak… I Got Mine!
I was able to get my hands on a Dell Streak on Friday and have been playing with it over the weekend. In case you don’t know, about it Dell brought this oversize cell phone to market on Friday. Dell calls it a… Well I am not sure what Dell calls its. Dell’s website refers to…
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Your detergent is spying on you!
Since a number of us who write for this blog have a background with Navigation / GPS technology, more about I thought I would post this little bit of odd usage for GPS technology. It seems Unilever’s Omo detergent (Sold in Latin America, primarily in Brazil) is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent…
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Technology Drives 2010 National Scout Jamboree
FORT A.P. HILL, dosage Va., July 29 /PRNewswire/ — When the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910, the latest advancement in communication was the manual telephone switchboard. Now, as the BSA celebrates its 100th Anniversary this week at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, modern technology is helping assure this week’s event is fun…
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Frost & Sullivan Reports NA Location Based Carrier Services $1.58 Billion in 2015
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Consumer Location-based Services (LBS) Market – The Wireless Carrier Opportunity, doctor finds that the wireless carrier-generated segment of the North American consumer LBS market amounted to on-deck application software revenues of approximately $718 million in 2009 and forecasts this to reach $1.58 billion in 2015. Read…
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Qualcomm Establishes Augmented Reality Game Studio at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Will Lead Effort to Innovate New Concepts in Augmented Reality Gaming Using Qualcomm Technologies SAN DIEGO – June 30, cost 2010 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has joined forces with the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to establish the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio, nurse a research and design center aimed at pioneering new advancements in…
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Monday Briefs!
It’s official: the IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet standard has been ratified by the IEEE! Orlando Florida – Orlando Health has just signed an agreement with HCD to build the organization’s Enterprise Data Warehouse which will be the primary repository for clinical, viagra financial, and operational and research data. Official approval has been given…