Layers are limited largely to satellite and traffic data, without extras like bicycling or terrain.
That suspicion is backed up by traffic data from traffic data outfit Inrix.
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That's according to traffic data firm Inrix, which measures speeds using GPS data from commercial vehicles.
Currently, the main way to get traffic data in cars is to subscribe to services like OnStar.
The Berkeley researchers also found that Hulu's website contained code from Kissmetrics, a company that analyzes website-traffic data.
Apple will pull traffic data from a variety of sources, including anonymous crowd-sourced data pulled from iOS users.
Through video cameras, traffic data is captured and analyzed, and then provided as real-time information to mobile phones.
The goal of the experiment was to see if GPS-enabled cell phones could improve the way traffic data is collected.
However, the ICO said European laws demand that users must consent to their traffic data being used for "value added services".
Incidentally, various financial institutions and hedge funds use traffic data as one of their data points for analyzing the economies and markets.
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Magellan has established an internal division to oversee its mobile software products and recently added lifetime traffic data to its most expensive app.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) strictly prohibits the interception of content and traffic data and limits access to stored communications (such as emails).
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The information was merged with email-traffic data, along with the results of weekly surveys in which employees rated how energetic and productive they felt.
Inrix compares this traffic data to unemployment data in these cities and shows that the more jobs there are, the more traffic there is.
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Crowd-sourced traffic data provides a good way to analyze the issue.
It then provides traffic data, forecasts and services in 35 countries to clients including Audi, BMW, Ford, MapQuest, Microsoft, Tele Atlas, Toyota and Vodafone.
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Demand has been strong enough that Magellan recently updated the RoadMate 1700 to include premium features, including a high-definition display, free lifetime traffic data and Bluetooth connectivity.
Many cities, including New York, now encourage taxis to install cameras for the safety and security of the driver and to collect interesting traffic data.
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Spanning the San Francisco Bay Area Region, the new Smarter Traveler research initiative collects and analyzes traffic data generated from existing sensors in roads, toll booths, bridges and intersections.
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Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
Its current program, which factors in information provided by ad servers, automotive shopping Weblets, dealership traffic data and consumer surveys, generates a daily status report that lets executives know what's working.
Rather than back away from the traffic data that got it in trouble in the Netherlands, TomTom is counting on it to increase loyalty among existing customers and lure new consumers to its products.
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Web usage analytics software has been around for many years, giving publishers traffic data for their sites, yet this type of functionality has been extremely limited or non-existent for users of consumer social networking sites.
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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.
The number of users with mobile devices is expected to climb to 5.2 billion in 2017 from 4.3 billion in 2012 and traffic across high-speed 4G networks will grow 40-fold during that time, according to a five-year forecast for mobile traffic data compiled by Cisco Systems and released today.
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As satellite-based GPS becomes more ubiquitous in cell phones, the idea is that by figuring out the position and speed of a person's cell phone as it travels in a moving car, traffic data could be made available faster, cheaper, and in areas where it's hard to measure, like on rural roads or city streets, for example.
Traffic data is included here for free, though the phone warns you that you may wind up seeing a few ads mixed in from time to time to cover it. (We didn't see any during the course of this review.) If traffic is noticed anywhere along or near your route the phone will throw up an indicator to warn you.
They drive a ton of data traffic and data revenue yet they do not provide sufficient management features for operators to manage that traffic across all of the networks that a subscriber may be using.
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