Over the past year, Apple’s iBeacon has gained a lot of media attention…
Tag: location tracking
Apple expected fully unveil iBeacon plans at WWDC today
Apple Inc.’s latest product to carry the ‘i’ prefix…
GE integrates iBeacon into new LED light fixtures, Walmart installing in stores worldwide
Up until now most retailers have been deploying Apple’s iBeacon technology…
Is Apple ready to SLAM the world?
Apple may be preparing to release SLAM on iOS…
Walgreens and Walmart testing iBeacon, Motorola Solutions launches iBeacon marketing platform
Walgreens-owned drugstore chain Duane Reade announced today…
Virgin Atlantic trials Apple iBeacon tech for iPhone users at London Heathrow Airport
Virgin Atlantic has chosen London Heathrow Airport to be the first airport in the world…
New York City bars to use Apple’s iBeacon for pub crawl promo
Companies continue to find new and interesting ways of implementing Apple’s iBeacon tech…
New sunglasses with iBeacon notify you when lost, act as beacons in retail
The first set of eye glasses with embedded iBeacon technology…
Privacy-sensitive Germans not biting into Apple’s iBeacon, yet
Since revelations that the U.S. spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone…
Apple’s iBeacon: With great power comes great potential to delight or annoy
With the release of iOS 7.1 Apple made a tweak to a technology called iBeacon…
Why aren’t people freaking out about Apple’s iBeacon?
The new iOS 7.1, which Apple launched this week, contained massively-improved iBeacon…
Apple’s iOS 7.1 delivers major, game-changing iBeacon improvement
A major, game-changing improvement to iBeacon…
Apple releases iBeacon specification, begins MFI program certification for Bluetooth LE devices
Apple has quietly rolled out its iBeacon specification as it starts to certify devices…
Major League Baseball completes iBeacon installation at first two ballparks
The installation of 65 iBeacons at…
Will iBeacon alerts be a welcome way to add value to retail visits or just a new way to spam?
iBeacon seems to be making a pretty rapid transition into the mainstream…
Apple’s iBeacon turns location sensing inside out: ‘Where am I?’ becomes ‘Here I am!’
Apple’s iBeacon location sensing technology, based on the Bluetooth radio…
How to permanently delete your Facebook account
I left Facebook nearly four years ago because…
Google wants to use your smartphone to track your visits to retail stores
For Google to conduct this passive location tracking…
Google nears $1 billion deal for Waze
Google Inc. is on the cusp of paying more than $1 billion for navigation and traffic app..
New emails reveal U.S. Feds not ‘forthright’ about false ‘stingray’ cell towers used to track location of mobile phones
According to new Justice Department e-mails obtained by the ACLU…
Apple to release new tracking tool for iOS app developers
Apple Inc. is planning to release a new way for mobile app developers…
Judge rules Apple must face lawsuit over iPhone location data collection claims
Apple Inc. must face a lawsuit over claims it collected data from customers…
Apple wins iPhone patents for location tracking, hybrid antenna, and more
Today, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially published…
Lawsuit says Microsoft tracks customers without consent
Microsoft allegedly tracks the location of its mobile customers even after users…
Google Street View cars grabbed locations of cellphones, computers
Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices…
Apple pays South Korean iPhone user 1 million won over iPhone location data collection
Apple Inc’s Korean unit has paid compensation to a user of its popular iPhone…
U.S. Senate Democrat Rockefeller: Totally unregulated apps have to be regulated
Apple and Google yesterday made a repeat appearance in front of the U.S. Senate…
Scoble: Apple has nothing over Google when it comes to knowing where you really are
Android apps can talk to your pretend iPhone’s radios and those same APIs are not available on Apple’s iOS platform…
Apple, Google set to testify at U.S. Congressional hearing on location data to begin May 10th
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued statements…
Android phone settlers sue Google for $50 million over location tracking
Google is being accused of excessively-detailed tracking…
U.S. Senate Democrat Franken to hold mobile privacy hearing; Apple, Google summoned
U.S. Senate Democrat Al Franken, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, will hold the hearing…
