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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: A location-based service (LBS) is a software application for a IP-capable mobile device that requires knowledge about where the mobile device is located. Location-based services can be query-based and provide the end user with useful information such as "Where is the nearest ATM?" or they can be push-based and deliver coupons or other marketing information to customers who are in a specific geographical  … 
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Presentation Transcript: Strategic Steps for Moving to LTE
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The growing success of mobile data services and of end user devices, such as the iPhone, are causing performance bottlenecks into our next generation mobile networks. This presentation transcript takes a look at how LTE, the next generation of wireless network, is dealing with these challenges while taking the user experience to the next level.
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009


Intercepting Interference
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Motorola’s industry leading wireless broadband expertise helps to substantially reduce the effects of interference for point-to-multipoint wireless access and distribution networks in both licensed and unlicensed frequencies. This solution paper gives the details.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009


Strategic Steps for Moving to LTE
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
VIDEO: The growing success of mobile data services and the success of end user devices, such as the iPhone, are causing performance bottlenecks into our next generation mobile networks. This videocast takes a look at how LTE, the next generation of wireless networking, is dealing with these challenges while taking the user experience to the next level.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 24 Sep 2009


Get Personal: Capitalize on Your Subscriber Data with a Unified User Profile
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the role of user profile management. SPs’ efforts to manage, enrich, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led service initiatives.
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009


Wireless Broadband: A Versatile and Reliable Network Alternative
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
BROCHURE: Read this brochure to learn why Motorola fixed wireless broadband solutions are a smart investment when balancing business needs with network performance and budget reality.
Posted: 19 Aug 2009 | Published: 19 Aug 2009


The New BlackBerry Technical Support Services
sponsored by BlackBerry
WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn about the new support programs from BlackBerry® Technical Support Services which are designed to keep pace with the changing mobility needs of any organization – whether you're just beginning to grow your BlackBerry® deployment or have come to rely on it as mission critical.
Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 14 Aug 2009


Overcoming IPv6 Addressing and Management Challenges
sponsored by BT Diamond IP
WHITE PAPER: Managing the IPv4/IPv6 address space resource requires an advanced tool that intelligently allocates, assigns and tracks the address blocks and individual IP addresses deployed on modern IP networks.
Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009


IT Briefing: Managing the Mobile User -- Best Practices for Technology and People
sponsored by Orange Business Services
IT BRIEFING: The purpose of this IT Briefing is to help you overcome some of the common hurdles of mobile management and implement a mobile strategy that will put your company where it needs to be, a mobile strategy that will follow all the issues that relate to IT going forward.
Posted: 22 Apr 2009 | Published: 22 Apr 2009


Bitpipe Research Guide: Wireless
sponsored by Bitpipe
RESOURCE CENTER: Wireless technology is becoming an important component of most enterprises' IT infrastructure.
Posted: 30 Nov 2006 | Published: 30 Nov 2006

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LOCATION-BASED SERVICES DEFINITION (continued): …  area. An LBS requires five basic components: the service provider's software application, a mobile network to transmit data and requests for service, a content provider to supply the end user with geo-specific information, a positioning component (see GPS) and the end user's mobile device. By law, location-based services must be permission-based. That means that the end user must opt-in to the service in order to use it. In most cases, this means installing the LBS application and accepting a request to allow the service to know the device's location. Although location-based services have … 
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