 | Expert Advice: Getting to Accurate Everywhere Location
February 1, 2012
Article By: Brock Butler In the next two to four years, mobile device location platforms will be able to provide positioning performance that enables emergency call (E911) and location-based services (LBS) with excellent accuracy (5–10 meters) in all locations. We call this accurate everywhere location, and it will be a...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Location Context, Relevance for Revenue
January 31, 2012
Article By: Christopher Peralta Mobility’s first phase saw fixed-line communications go mobile. The next phase saw the Internet go mobile. We now behold a paradigm shift in the third phase, where real world communication bridges to the virtual world, via richer communications on smartphones. For device manufacturers and...More>> |
 | Location Technology, All in the Cars
January 18, 2012
Article By: Janice Partyka Microsoft says this is its last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Fine. Move over because the car manufacturers are using the show to unveil stunning location and mobile offerings. It has only been a few years since automakers started coming to CES to pitch new in-vehicle mobile...More>> |
 | Freemium Model for in-Vehicle LBS
December 20, 2011
Article By: Janice Partyka Cloud-based infotainment, more tightly integrated apps, and more personalized offerings will change the in-vehicle mobile experience. Interfaces will morph towards combinations of heads-up displays and voice. These were some of the conclusions from my December 1 webinar “Car as a Mobile LBS...More>> |
| A Nationwide RTK Network: A Great Idea, But…
December 12, 2011
Article By: Gavin M. Schrock Some folks are proposing that a nationwide RTK Network (RTN) be piggy-backed on the controversial LightSquared communications network. That could be cool, if it can be done. No one is saying that it can’t be done, but there are reservations on whether it would be worth the massive investments...More>> |
| Expert Advice: MSS Misinformation, and Ten Truths
December 1, 2011
Article By: Richard G. Keegan LightSquared is currently conducting a public campaign intended to persuade federal regulators to approve a nationwide broadband service that would be detrimental to users and applications that depend on GPS. The campaign relies on misinformation, revisionist history, half-truths, and clear...More>> |
 | Out in Front: Feds Playing Footsie
December 1, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron I’ll be the first to say that I don’t know how Washington works. I don’t know if Washington works, but that’s another story. Lacking that knowledge, and a competent lawyer to pepper my filings with the requisite “Vaughn v. Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977...More>> |
 | Mobile Location Heads Indoors
November 16, 2011
Article By: Janice Partyka Bringing mobile location to indoors will make a compelling experience more compelling and stimulate our industry. The killer app? Apps that can self learn to be personalized to a user’s life. Also, I will host a webinar on The Car as Mobile LBS Device on December 8; see column for details.More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Realizing Europe’s SatNav Ambitions
November 1, 2011
Article By: Axelle Pomies, Gard Ueland The 21st century today faces and will continue to encounter many new societal challenges, all mutually interdependent: health, environment, agriculture, ageing population, personal security, public and civil protection, safe and efficient transport and mobility, citizen rescue, land management,...More>> |
 | Out in Front: Catch a Wave
November 1, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron Expecting guidance from FCC regulators by year’s end? LightSquared purports to do so, but a more measured evaluation finds a December decision unlikely. The current test cycle — hopefully not the final one — just reached its end on November 4 at White Sands Missile Range, under the Air...More>> |
