Portland indoor mapping startup Meridian has been sold to Aruba Networks for an undisclosed sum, reports the Oregonian today. Meridian helps people find their way within large buildings, such as malls, stadiums or airports, and enables marketing directed at a phone’s precise location. Aruba Networks is a wireless LAN vendor selling access points, mobility controllers, [...]
There were so many new things announced at Google I/O opening keynote yesterday, it’s hard to keep track of them. Let’s review the stories from C/Net, Engadget, The Verge, Android Authority, ComputerWorld, GigaOm, and TechCrunch. Engadget has a recap of the announcements: Android There have been 900 million Android activations, 48 billion app installs to [...]
Next month we will reach the milestone where the number of active Mobile devices is equal to the number of people in the world, says Zahid Ghadialy in the 3G and 4G Wireless Blog. There are many people with more than one active mobile device and there are others who have no devices so it [...]
Ruckus Wireless today announced that it was selected by Telecom NZ, the national communications service supplier in New Zealand, to transform conventional payphones into outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in locations across the country. Telecom’s initial pilot project, completed in less than 12 weeks, outfitted phone booths in holiday locations over this past Christmas in December 2012 [...]
RelayRides has acquired Wheelz, says TechCrunch, making it the leading, peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace. San Francisco-based RelayRides was launched about five years ago, and connects people who need a car with vehicle owners whose rides would otherwise be sitting idle. Car owners set the price and availability, and RelayRides provides the technology infrastructure and a [...]
At Google I/O, May 15-17, a Google team will place hundreds of Arduino-based environmental sensors around the conference to track things like temperature, noise levels, humidity and air quality in real-time, reports TechCrunch. Google’s Cloud Platform lets you build applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google’s infrastructure. Networked sensor technology is in [...]
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