The stores set the retail industry on its ear by defying logical rules for location and profit models.

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And the business models around indoor location services remain nascent.

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Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.

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New businesses and business models have emerged to make the most of the personal location information and social communication so easily shared through iPhone apps, and the successful ones have spread across all smartphone platforms.

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The experiment with e-commerce thus far has shown that online shoppers tend to favor the bricks-and-clicks models so they don't sacrifice having a physical location where they can get advice, view products or make an exchange -- a finding that bricks-and-clicks universities are likely to recognize and copy, Levine said.

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As a result, he has developed models that allow them to look ahead, integrating their factory-location and pricing decisions in a way that anticipates rivals' responses, and leaves fewer profit opportunities wasted.

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Blu is rolling out a new interface that allows customers to view models in three dimensions and to preview thousands of options, from the location of the kitchen to the flanges in the Anderson windows.

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