ABI Research Launches New "Location-Aware Services" Research Service.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research has announced the launch of its new "Location Aware Services" Research Service. The annual package includes Research Reports, Research Briefs, ABI Insights, and analyst inquiry support, and will be an invaluable resource for data aggregators Data aggregators are organizations such as Acxiom and ChoicePoint involved in compiling information from detailed databases on individuals and selling that information to others. , web portals, software developers, device and handset manufacturers, telematics service providers, wireless network operators, data owners, and investors. The telecommunications industry has been talking about the promise of location-based services See mobile positioning. (LBS (Location-Based Services) See mobile positioning. ) for a long time. From GPS position-finding for emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' to automotive navigation to finding nearby restaurants using a mobile phone, the range of possibilities has seemed endless. But for the consumer, the promise has remained only partly fulfilled. ABI Research principal analyst Dan Benjamin comments, "We believe that in 2006 and 2007 vendors across the industry have become more pragmatic, and they realize that in order to offer attractive location-based services for users, it's not enough to provide the technology: they also need large quantities of data that are tied to real locations. So this Service is unlike most traditional research services: it is designed to track the flow of information, while still covering the supporting technologies that will enable the LBS market to reach its full potential." The Location Aware Services Research Service will provide subscribers with continual insights into the market for location-sensitive, real time data as well as applications that can be built off the utilization of this data, for the commercial, consumer, and municipal markets. This data includes traffic and presence, inventory, social networking and personal location, indoor location technologies, software interfaces, municipal networking, intelligent transportation, and more. The Location Aware Services Research Service (http://www.abiresearch.com/products/service/Location_Aware_Services), addresses the aggregation and dissemination of location-aware content and the opportunities to monetize it, as well as discussing how Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and related technologies will enable telematics and LBS. It also explores the evolving roles of new and established players in the value chain. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York, ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in broadband and multimedia, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. & contactless, M2M M2M Machine-to-Machine (communication, mainly mobile) M2M Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album) M2M Mobile to Mobile (cellular phone) M2M Member-to-Member M2M Month to Month , wireless connectivity, mobile wireless, transportation, and emerging technologies. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500. |
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