Radar View: provides a high-level snapshot of the resort and shows the user's location and points of interest.
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Health records tied to user home and work location can be a massive benefit for researchers.
It is a GPS-enabled solution that allows calling help immediately and giving a precise user location.
Consumers are drawn to the mobile Internet because it can be highly contextual and leverages information such as geo-location, presence, and user-specific information to deliver a rich and intensely personal experience.
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WifiSLAM, which is roughly two years old, is among a slew of technology companies trying to crack the problem of how to detect a mobile-phone user's location when the user is indoors and traditional GPS technology doesn't work.
This is a book, but it's also an app that mixes in user-generated feedback and location-based participation.
The phone also automatically relays the GPS coordinates of the user's location and rates nearby noise levels by using the unit's microphone.
The platform's clean, tiled design gives a fresh and enjoyable new way to view images, with a customisable timeline ribbon and tag-based filtering options that make it easier to find images using important dates, location, user-added tags, and much more.
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The nabi XD is a first of its kind, an Android ultraportable tablet with productivity apps, incredible console quality gaming, modified parental controls for browsing and a dynamic and intelligent gadget-based user interface that adapts based on the time of day and location.
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There is also a mobile version of the service that seeks to tie activities and updates to the phone user's location.
The reading could then be recorded on a map, tagging how the user felt at a given location and time and allowing them to share that information with their friends.
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He told reporters that the focus will be on accessing a user's location to deliver more relevant results, delivering a richer experience for shopping and integrating a user's social graph into results.
The opportunity to offer targeted advertising based on a user's location should help these and other firms win a slice (or in Google's case, expand its slice) of the huge market for local advertising.
It works by using myriad user info, including location, web browsing and mobile app usage data "to create specific insights" -- i.e.
The application combines voice-recognition technology with Google's search index and the iPhone's ability to track a user's location to offer results keyed to his or her whereabouts.
But Apple avoids acknowledging that the by-product of tracking all the towers and hotspots around an iPhone user is that his or her approximate location is tracked, too.
That means, for instance, even if a user has set his or her birthday, location and "online status" messages to be private to friends, their friends can approve an app that will also obtain that information.
These entities could have access to sensitive information, including a user's location, contacts, identity, messages and photos.
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In 100 milliseconds Weatherbill crunches forecasts and 30 years of National Weather Service data for the user's location.
Mobile search increasingly can weave global positioning data and profiles of a user's past searches to yield relevant, location-sensitive "contextual" results.
It foresaw the advantage of excellent mapping technology to sell location based advertising and other services beyong directions to the user.
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In a text message to the user's device, drivers will get the location and severity of accidents or new road construction causing areas of heavy congestion.
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And cloud based services like Flickr and Twitter are producing massive quantities of detailed (location specific) user data that is available for anyone to mine (as allowed by their users).
The phone detects the kind of lighting in use at the user's location-such as fluorescent, incandescent, and natural lighting-and automatically adjusts the screen's color balance to the optimal setting.
Those are the same tools used by fitness-oriented digital pedometers to track the number of steps a user has taken, their speed, the distance they've climbed and other location-based data.
Once the device is registered on the Trakdot website and placed inside a checked bag, it will deliver location information directly to the user's mobile phone or SMS device via text or email.
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Sprint 4G Desktop Modem is the perfect cost-effective alternative to wired broadband or DSL connection, can be moved flexibly from location to location, allowing the user to connect to the Sprint 4G network easily and seamlessly without complicated installation and set-up procedures.
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The new, free iPhone application will streamline the process by allowing New Yorkers to report complaints to 311 using a program that identifies the user, determines the specific location of the condition reported using GPS technology, and allows easy uploads of photos.
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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.
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