Sponsor: Wi-Fi Positioning System from
Navizon 
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Wi-Fi Location & Tracking
"Tell me when I get there" … Software that nags you to buy milk at the supermarket or can search for local Italian restaurants - and user
reviews of them - is the next big thing… When you type in a keyword, a function call to Navizon's API scans the
Golden Pages, Google and MSN local search to find shops or places that match what you typed. A small map is then sent to your
phone.
Wi-Fi Faces New Patent Woes A federal judge in Tyler, Texas, ruled last week that an Australian government agency holds the rights
to patents on the underlying technology used in two Wi-Fi standards and a third proposed standard. The decision could have
a wide-ranging impact on wireless equipment makers and consumer electronics manufacturers.
QUALCOMM Announces Availability of World’s First 802.11n Draft 2.0 Chipset. …PC notebook customers can count on a single supply
source for wireless chipsets that deliver industry-leading Wi-Fi connectivity when a Wi-Fi network is available, and seamless
connectivity everywhere else using 3G CDMA cellular broadband access technology.
Microsoft Supports Muni Wi-Fi Not by installing a network, but by providing advertising
and services on MetroFi’s in Portland, Oregon.
Bluetooth Location & Tracking
Bluetooth Technology Optimizes Mobile Asset Tracking Applications Beyond just the usage efficiencies, AVPM was able to provide
its customers a lower cost and less complex wireless solution.
Qualcomm to Acquire RF Micro’s Bluetooth Division RF Micro Devices, which makes chips for cell phones and wireless
networking devices, has agreed to sell its Bluetooth assets for US$39 million in cash to Qualcomm RF Micro expects the deal
will allow it to focus more on its highest growth wireless ventures, which include cellular transceivers, global positioning
system components and wireless local area network power amplifiers.
RFID
Tracking
Security, Safety, and Savings Drive RTLS RFID Market Stronger demand for tracking, locating and monitoring.
... Companies are leveraging many emerging technologies, including WiFi, Zigbee, Bluetooth, SAW, and UWB.
Sybase iAnywhere Pioneers Context-Aware Location Information System With RFID Anywhere 3.0 Delivers Revolutionary Location
Information System That Provides Business-Aware Asset Tracking Functionality.
Philips Announces New RFID Asset Tracking Solution …comply with regulations and prevent theft and loss,
Royal Philips Electronics' Medical Systems division introduced the Philips asset tracking solution. ...
Symbol Technologies ISV Partner IntelliTrack Provides Asset Tracking Solution for High-Value Military
Parts. Applications for the software include inventory control, warehouse management, and asset tracking.
Ultrasound Indoor Positioning Systems
Sonitor Ultrasound Indoor Positioning System and Awarix
Enterprise... that Medical
Center East ("MCE"), a 300-bed facility in Birmingham, Alabama, has contracted to install the Sonitor ultrasound
indoor positioning system.
Indoor GPS / GPS
GPS/Galileo technology to power 60% of WCDMA handsets - Mumbai,MH,Asia 60 per cent of WCDMA handsets shipped worldwide
will have integrated GPS/Galileo receivers by 2010.
Asset Tracking
Asset tracking is one of the applications that IDC believes is driving
early deployments of RFID, and the new release of RFID Anywhere provides a common ...
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Industry
- Geospatial Integration for Public Safety Conference, New Orleans, April 15-17, 2007
Academic
- International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007(ISWPC 2007), San Juan, Feb 5-7, 2007- NetCri 07 in conjunction with IEEE IPCCC
2007;
- The First International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation
Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-13, 2007.
- Call for Papers –
Computer Communications: Advanced Location-Based Services. See PDF for more info.
 
- Company in Asset Tracking – Developer III
- Rosum - DSP Software Engineer
- Rosum - Software QA Lead
- S5 Wireless - Sr. RFIC Design Engineer
- S5 Wireless - Sr. Hardware Application Engineer
- S5 Wireless - Sr. FPGA/Digital ASIC Designer
- S5 Wireless - Sr. Software Engineers -
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