Already ahead in ITS, Portland's 850 "smart buses" are equipped with Global Positioning System and Automated Vehicle Location technology.
Ericsson, Qualcomm and Alcatel-Lucent of manipulating a European standards board to keep its location technology out of the next generation of cellular phones.
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Skyhook is the recognized leader in mobile location technology and produces over three hundred million location requests every day over tens of millions of mobile devices.
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TruePosition argued it deserved a hearing before the standards board determining the next generation of location technology for cellular phones, since it is used in about half the phones in the U.S. today.
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We'll be integrating the Geoloqi location technology into the Esri platform in July 2013 and will be able to open up an entire world of datasets and solutions accessible before only by geographers, scientists and researchers.
Carriers using the GSM standard turned to TruePosition after the government mandated location technology for 911 calls and they were unable to achieve the accuracy they needed with a competing system developed by Ericsson and others.
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Carriers using the GSM standard turned to TruePosition after the government mandated location technology for 911 calls and they were unable to achieve the accuracy they needed with a competing system developed by Ericsson and others, Salen said.
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MoviePass is introducing an innovative geo-location based technology that acts like a debit card.
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SoLo (not to be confused with YOLO), a combination of social media and location-based technology, is the motto for food trucks.
Using location-based technology, the app guides users to the nearest Verizon Wireless Communications Store, where they can easily drop off devices and accessories for donation.
TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) (Nasdaq: TSYS), is a leader in location-based technology whose mobile services empower consumers to make quick, smart decisions when they're on the go.
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Think, for example, about how the American Museum of Natural History is using location-based technology to give visitors information on exhibits through their mobile devices.
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The Boston-based company accused Google of using its market power to pressure smartphone makers into dropping Skyhook's location-sensing technology in favor of Google's own, competing service.
This in fact is already happening, with a select number of companies already deploying enhanced mobile and location-based technology to improve the in-store and impulse buying experience.
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The company's flagship device, VIVOplay, is the smallest commercially available mobile communications and location device designed to help families keep in touch in situations where existing location and communications technology fail.
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According to Scott Daniel, CEO and Founder, HipGeo, the app is the second phase of location and check in technology.
There are some obvious benefits to developing a Android app, especially given the recent developments in NFC technology and location based services.
For much of this year, the commission's reason for blocking the iPhone was that its built-in mapping capabilities violate a South Korean rule requiring the use of domestic technology for location-based services in cellphones.
We are standing on a site which we expect to become a basis for an advanced manufacturing technology and research location.
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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That strategy leverages ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology to estimate location.
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The Lumia 920, which features new camera technology, enhanced location services and wireless charging, and Lumia 820, with exchangeable shells, were introduced at a media event in New York that included a quick appearance by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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At the launch event New York this morning, the company unveiled the Lumia 920, which includes a 4.5-inch display, a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, wireless charging, new camera technology and enhanced location services, as well as the lower-tier Lumia 820, a 4.3-inch model model that features exchangeable outer shells.
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IOGEAR's HDMI Control Center allows families to consolidate their office and entertainment technology into one convenient location for easy access.
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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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It reports on the convergence of five forces: mobile, social media, Big Data, sensors and location to create an entirely new technology era, one in which context will shape business, marketing, advertising, our health, entertainment and our relationships with connected devices.
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But a positive effect of globalisation is that you can have a language that is spoken by only five or 50 people in one remote location, and now through digital technology that language can achieve a global voice and a global audience.
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.
On page 24 is a technology story from an unusual location--Pakistan.
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