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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

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How is iBeacon different than using GPS for geo-location? Transmission through Bluetooth wireless technology gives your phone precise information about where you are in the store, while GPS transmitters don’t work well indoors and don’t distinguish well between locations only a few feet apart.

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How Appification Is Transforming The Internet

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In 2013, just 7 percent of companies had implemented a mobile app strategy, and 51 percent of companies had no plans to develop one, a FeedHenry survey found. As appification continues to move forward in 2018, apps will increasingly incorporate GPS based data to deliver value based on customer location.

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Digital Natives in Our Midst | Advice and Opinion

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Its collaboration like never before and every CEO in IBMs recent survey of 765 global CEOs reported the lack of collaboration as a core problem holding back the growth of their companies. View This Webcast » The CIOs Guide to Wireless in the Enterprise. Network Monitoring. Disaster Recovery. Load Balancing. Operating Systems.

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