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Original Technorati articles tagged “location services”

• in Advertising
  The One Feature Facebook Needs to Create the Killer Marketing App
  Enabling Business Pages to geo-target Facebook Wall content to their Fans would create the game-changer of the decade
  by jhaughwout / on Dec 5, 2011
• in Social Media
  To geo-tag, or not to geo-tag
  Is it necessary to “check in” every time I stop at a street corner, to be found every second of the day?
  by saragoldberger / on Sep 13, 2011
• in Technology
  Tablets’ Disruptive Transformation: Enabling Form to Follow Function
  Today’s generation of tablets will completely transform how we interact with computers
  by jhaughwout / on Aug 9, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “location services”

 

• Facebook and Waze: blending your worlds together one data point at a time

  
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  Word has it Facebook is looking to acquire crowdsource navigation app Waze for a hefty $1 billion. Such a move would provide the social network with an array of location-based data far more substantial than any it has had thus far, adding the information on top of what it already knows about consumers’ likes, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Real-time Transit Maps

  
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  Jason Brown , a Portland developer, was often foiled by the bus-arrival estimates generated by TriMet’s TransitTracker , reports the Oregonian’s transit columnist Joseph Rose . Inspired by real-time transit maps, like the SF Live Bus app and accompanying website in San Francisco, the 23-year-old ...
  2 weeks ago

• Orbcomm: World’s Largest Container Tracker

  
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  Orbcomm , the low earth orbit messaging satellite company, specializing in two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that its ReeferTrak platform has been selected by seven new domestic and international transportation and logistics companies. ReeferTrak enables customers to proactively ...
  2 weeks ago

• Never Get Lost Again With Advances in Mobile Location Services

  
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  Its hard to imagine someone pulling out a paper map when you are going somewhere new or if you get lost. With all the mobile apps and location services available now its much easier to just type in the address and let your phone tell you where to go.  Location-based application marketing is no longer a new fad, it ...
  2 weeks ago

• Startup PDX Challenge Finalists

  
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  The Portland Development Commission named 16 semifinalists to boost entrepreneurship in the city. About 240 young companies applied to participate in the Startup PDX Challenge , which will award up to six $10,000 grants, plus free rent and professional services for a year, reports the Oregonian . They are: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Employee Claims Google Now App Does Not Cause Significant Battery Impact

  
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  After Google Now was added to the Google Search app last week, many users began complaining that the app was draining battery by constantly accessing the iPhone’s Location Services . According to a Google employee who posted on the Macworld forum (via  The Next Web ), Google Now does not excessively drain ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to turn off Google Now and keep your battery charged

  
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    Google has recently added its Google Now service into its search app for iOS, but there’s one big drawback to getting constant weather, traffic, and other local information on your phone: Location Services runs constantly. You can tell by the little arrow icon up in the corner of your home screen. Usually, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Now for iOS bug is affecting battery life for some users [Updated]

  
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  Copyright © 2013 James Rogers. Visit the original article at http://isource.com/2013/05/01/google-now-ios-bug/. (Update: Google has made a public response to this issue, which you can find in this post.) While I covered some of the shortcomings of Google Now in its debut version for iOS a couple of days ago, it …
  3 weeks ago

• Sprint: Long on M2M

  
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  M2M ( machine-to-machine ) communications, connecting smart meters, medical devices and vehicles, is going to be with Sprint for some time, reports Network World . Sprint says its CDMA 2G M2M network is here for the long term. On Monday, Sprint said it was expanding its collaboration with Swiss component maker ...
  4 weeks ago

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