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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

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Apple’s iBeacon technology is looking to accomplish both, and after a successful run with the MLB’s ‘At the Ballpark’ mobile app at Citifield , Apple has now installed the location technology into its own retail stores. Last Friday, the technology debuted in 254 Apple stores in the U.S.

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Is Marketing About To Get Really Creepy Or Really Good?

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Apple acquired a company last week. On March 23rd, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple acquired a company called WiFiSLAM for an estimated $20 million (not bad for a two year old company with just a handful of employees that includes some ex-Googlers). This is more than a defensive move for Apple.

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Was The iPhone 7 Worth The Wait? What Is The Future Of Uber? All That And More On CHOM FM

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A GPS-enabled and swim-proof Apple Watch. The one-year deal will see Uber acquiring the equivalent of 300 taxi permits, which gives the company 50,000 operating hours a week. apple watch. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel. This week we discussed: . The big event happened last week. app of the week.

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France Alleges Apple For Not Helping With Contact Tracing App

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Just yesterday only, we talked about Apple & Google developing an app with the vision of preventing probable COVID-19 cases all over the world. And recently, we received news about France releasing a statement saying Apple isn’t helping the country as it should to help the crisis in a better way.

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The Most Amazing Internet Stock Of The Year

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There are sprinkles of newer thinking (like when The Huffington Post launched their GPS For The Soul app) and I'm hopeful that they can leverage everything they have with The Huffington Post coupled with their acquisition of Patch to crack the code on local (and hyper-local) content. gps for the soul. So, who do you think it was?

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #25

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"Is GPS eroding our brain? But that may be what the GPS has done to our brains. the real information in the pages, and the company that will win the ebook wars will be the one that is not all that focused on the hardware, but the one that makes the content as readily available as possible for the most reasonable price.

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Is the iPhone 4 Apple’s Vista?

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Apple’s iPhone 4 just can’t catch a break. To add insult to injury, Microsoft executive Kevin Turner says Apple’s latest smartphone release could fail, just like his own company’s Windows Vista. All antennas — including television, radio, GPS, and cellular antennas — can experience attenuation.

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