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Location-Based Services

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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MapInfo Tech Brief: Powerful Location Intelligence Capabilities for Java Developers
sponsored by MapInfo Corporation
VIDEOCAST: Learn how location intelligence can be used to discern customer behavioral patterns, facilitating greater business decision efficiency.
Posted: 17 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 17 Jun 2008
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Location Intelligence: Determining Customer Purchase Patterns
sponsored by MapInfo Corporation
VIDEOCAST: Discover how location intelligence is being used by a variety of businesses to execute critical business transactions with greater efficiency.
Posted: 17 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 17 Jun 2008
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MapXTreme Java Edition Data Sheet
sponsored by MapInfo Corporation
DATA SHEET: MapXtreme Java is a 100% Java mapping engine designed to enable the use of location intelligence on the desktop, over the internet or through your organization intranet or extranet.
Posted: 17 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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MapXtreme Java v4.8.1
sponsored by MapInfo Corporation
TRIAL SOFTWARE: This IT Download, MapXtreme Java v4.8.1 uses mapping and location-based decision and analysis support systems to make better strategic decisions.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 10 Mar 2008
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MapXtreme Java v4.8.1
sponsored by MapInfo Corporation
TRIAL SOFTWARE: This IT Download, MapXtreme Java, provides a Java mapping engine which facilitates optimized location intelligence on the desktop, over the internet, or through an intranet.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 10 Mar 2008
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Deploying Location Intelligence in a SOA
sponsored by MapInfo Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how to effectively implement a secure, scalable SOA through the use of location technology.
Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Envinsa Demonstration
sponsored by MapInfo Corporation
SOFTWARE DEMO: This IT Download, Envinsa provides organizations with a scalable web services platform that enables organizations to realize the power of location intelligence across an enterprise while retaining IT management tools.
Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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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 … 
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