Unlike with Foursquare or typical consumer location-broadcasting software, which either shows your location only to friends or announces publicly that users are checked in at a busy bar, museum, or restaurant, the tracking of Gibbons was extremely granular and showed her on a boat, by herself, in a wooded area devoid of crowds.
Consumer surveys show that location near big cities has become a greater priority now than price.
Consumer tastes varied by location: they found that a beer-battered onion-ring flavor is popular in California and Ohio, while a churro flavor is a hit in New York.
Snyder's modeling shows that multiple stores need to stock more combined inventory to satisfy consumer demand than one location would, given the vagaries of more or fewer customers to patronize any one store.
Consumer resistance to sharing transaction-level and location-based information is going down, as evidenced in various social media sources.
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The growth in consumer acceptance of mobile devices opens up the opportunity for location-based gaming.
Today, Skyhook's Core Location provides positioning to tens of millions of consumer mobile devices and applications.
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Best in class fraud detection vendors track various parameters of a transaction viz. the geo- location , device id, credit card eligibility of the consumer involved, etc. and try to identify a possible fraud, if any.
This is not just about the marginally useful ability to check in on location-based social networks such as foursquare or to address the always addressable consumer.
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Increased availability of information about local product inventory, coupled with smartphone access and location data, is helping retailers forge new customer relationships and bring unprecedented relevance to consumer messaging.
The latest technology builds on the company's tracking and location systems experience in a variety of market sectors ranging from defence and security to consumer, industrial, and oil and gas.
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That location does maximize foot traffic and exposure which is always a key objective for any new consumer product launch.
In a sunlit room at a location in Manhattan that I will not disclose, reporters and editors from some of the most respected consumer and trade publications in the world had their first opportunity Monday to view hundreds of fine jewelry creations by the some of the top designers in the business today.
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