Among the things that Google is typically asked for are account information and location data.
Owning the map experience is about owning location data which is critical to local discovery.
There's location data from your cell phone, there's a record of your movements from closed-circuit TVs.
The open API will allow developers to create a wide range of applications built around location data.
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Background location data, both with live GPS for backgrounded turn-by-turn, and cell tower-based for lower power draw.
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According to Petersen, Sense Networks applies big science to mobile location data for predictive analytics in advertising.
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Sherpa wants to be a larger platform for personalized location data, to which many other businesses could connect.
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Telefonica Digital Insights will offer companies and public sector bodies "analytical insights" based on users' anonymised location data.
What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Google in June launched Map Maker, a service that lets people upload location data to its Web site.
It includes things such as photos, status updates, location data as well as the things they have "liked".
This agreement is a key pillar in JiWire's mobile audience and location data platform that combines both Wi-Fi and mobile media.
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Going forward, our mobile phones can serve as the gateway to our health information, location data, government services, and much more.
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This segment offers handheld and portable devices, and related software that can deliver real-time location data and directions to specific destinations.
Fulford-Jones narrated of Nikki, a woman who volunteered to share her location data via the GPS chip in her mobile phone.
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To others, this use of location data by law enforcement would appear chillingly invasive and unnecessary in the apprehension of defendants.
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Nearby is almost the same as City Lens in Lumia phones which is exclusive and unique in mapping and location data.
People can also take steps to better control what they share online on social networks or apps that collect location data.
When users install Google Maps on their iPhone, the option to share location data with Google is switched on by default.
Cities are also beginning to use their buses' location data to answer that perennial question of cranky commuters: Where's my stinking bus?
As well as a vast library of user-uploaded photographs, Instagram also holds location data on its users - a highly valuable resource.
Then, as we add services, we give it access to our e-mails, our friends and even our location data through our mobile phones.
First, Facebook also announced that it has more than 200 million mobile users, potentially meaning more users who will share their location data.
He notes the irony of using technology, from GPS location data to mobile social-sharing, to report on a uniquely high-tech form of warfare.
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This year, the dominating trend is sharing: Meeker has noticed that many more of us are willing to publish our media and location data.
"We don't need a new law, but Congress needs to clean up what it did in 1986 with regard to location data, " Zwillinger says.
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.
Then, using gene-location data from the Human Genome Project, they can see which nearby genes are likely, if they malfunction, to lead to the disease.
Willing to share location data to receive coupons or deals for nearby businesses: 56 percent of Millennials agreed vs. 42 percent of users 35 and older.
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He said Facebook's relationship with data partners could become more worrisome if Facebook leverages the location data it passively collects from mobile devices to sell ads.
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