As some members of the Supreme Court recognized last year when they considered the use of only a single stream of data -- GPS location -- creating a life stream of data points paints a mosaic picture of a person's actions and habits.
Fan Appz, a Facebook application taking advantage of location data sharing is running a campaign for Westfield Mall in California to encourage customers to check in for store discounts.
FORBES: The Place Race: Where We Are on Location-Sharing Services Adoption
The bill would update ECPA so the government must demonstrate probable cause to a judge before it may demand either the present or past location data about a person.
FORBES: Lawmakers Propose Changes To Make Government Get Warrant Before Reading Your Email
After connecting your Foursquare account to Meshu, you can customize a piece based on your location data, from check-ins worldwide, to those within a particular city, state or neighborhood.
The campaign reported a 118 percent sales lift, a 109 percent lift in response rates for location-enhanced data and a 150 percent lift in response rates compared to banner ads.
FORBES: Mapping The U.S. In 100-Meter Squares To Target Phone Users With Very Local Offers
As well as a vast library of user-uploaded photographs, Instagram also holds location data on its users - a highly valuable resource.
Sherpa wants to be a larger platform for personalized location data, to which many other businesses could connect.
FORBES: Sherpa, The Latest Personal Assistant App, Focuses On Location
Mr. Rogers says the company has been working to customize weather, language and location data for a new thermostat that will work in European homes.
The pivot is a smart one because mobile location data is one of the hot growth area, with users increasingly using their mobile devices to search for products and services.
Most cellphone companies keep historical records of location data for a year or more, according to a Justice Department document obtained by the ACLU through the Freedom of Information Act.
Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.
You can then find others who are nearby and ultimately add to a growing collection of location-based data.
Google in June launched Map Maker, a service that lets people upload location data to its Web site.
It can be part of a self-hosted, on-premise architecture, with all data stored on location and protected behind a corporate firewall.
FORBES: The Data Protection And Security Case For Private Clouds
While virtualization allows users to pool data into less but stronger servers, it also benefits from having the data in a third location.
FORBES: Dell-EMC Relationship "On The Rocks" After Storage Acquisition
With the Panasonic mobile HDVC system, emergency medical technicians can transmit essential visual patient data from a remote location to awaiting teams in the ER so those teams can prepare.
ENGADGET: Panasonic and Verizon team up to Mobile HD Visual Communications System using LTE
Understanding that this data is even more useful in real time, we developed a smartphone app that allows users to explore a great deal of location-specific data (and to find out, for example, whether money is walking to or from their own MSA).
FORBES: Doing More With Data: Lessons From Facebook, Zappos, and Beyond
Until now business analysts have often oversimplified this dimension of their data because of a lack of the BI system capabilities or access to location indexed data.
FORBES: Esri Continues Focus on Spatial Analytics for Business
The open API will allow developers to create a wide range of applications built around location data.
FORBES: Google Opens Latitude's API, But It's Still Missing The Social Sauce
Fulford-Jones narrated of Nikki, a woman who volunteered to share her location data via the GPS chip in her mobile phone.
FORBES: Locately Will Find Which 50% Of Your Advertising Is Wasted
The difference is between actively sharing information -- uploading an image with location data, checking into a restaurant or other business -- and passively sharing it (what the tech companies like to call "frictionless" sharing).
Senator Roy Blunt seemed flabbergasted that location data is gathered by smartphones without user consent, apparently having missed out on the series of news stories this year about how smartphone carriers, providers, and apps are all feeding on location data like zombies at a nursing home.
FORBES: Highlights From The Google, Apple, Facebook, Senate Privacy Circus
We did a quick data test -- at our location we went from 104Kbps on the EDGE iPhone to 215Kbps on the 3G model. 2x ain't bad, yo.
Curiously, Affirm will use Facebook to verify a user's identity, and it'll also use a wide range of social and location-based data to determine an individual's credit worthiness.
The technological shift from desk-bound personal computers to wireless devices is driving the FTC's push for major revisions to the law, known as COPPA. It was written before an era of cellphones and tablets loaded with apps that can be designed to siphon up a person's precise location and other personal data highly valued by advertisers and data brokers.
For example, the act of remembering is a bit like a computer reading a location and rewriting the information at the same time, but a computer can rewrite the exact data that was there whereas humans alter it a bit each time they remember.
FORBES: Density Of Meaning: Creation As The Flip Side Of Memory
They can access mobile phone operators' data that pinpoints a user's location within a few hundred yards.
P4P, Krishnamurthy asserts, takes advantage of data about users' location and a provider's network map without revealing details to either side.
More visitors to data mine and a great way to add location tagging to their ever increasing database.
In addition, Facebook (and, to a lesser extent, Twitter) hold location-based data that could be utilized for its users base.
应用推荐