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Location-Based Services
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ALSO CALLED: Mobile Location-Based Services, Location Based Services, Mobile Positioning, LBS Services, LBS, Mobile Location Services, MLS, and Location Services
DEFINITION: Location-based services (LBS) are services that exploit knowledge about where an information device user is located. For example, the user of a wireless-connected smartphone could be shown ads specific to the region the user is traveling in. Location-based services exploit any of several
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LOCATION-BASED SERVICES DEFINITION (continued): … technologies for knowing where a network user is geographically located. One is the Global Positioning System ( GPS), based on a collection of 24 Navstar satellites developed originally for the U.S. Department of Defense. A land-based GPS receiver uses these satellites to determine its location, within 50 meters to 100 meters. A location-based service could require that each of its users have a mobile device that contains a GPS receiver. A second approach is E911, an initiative of … Location-Based Services definition sponsored by SearchNetworking.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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