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Skyhook Wireless Brings Wi-Fi Location to Symbian OS Leaders in Smartphone technology today demonstrate Wi-Fi positioning at the Symbian Smartphone Show 2008 BOSTON, MA - OCTOBER 21, 2008 - Skyhook Wireless, provider of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) and the XPS Hybrid Location System, and ...
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All About Symbian Live - Symbian Smartphone Show 2008
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Visa, Huawei, ARM to join Symbian group | Technology
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Symbian OS Gets Skyhook Location System
Xconomy — ... In an announcement today, Skyhook said that Symbian phones running WPS were being demonstrated at this week’s Symbian Smartphone Show in London. The demonstration proves that WPS can be successfully integrated with the location-based services already built into Symbian OS 9.5, the latest version of the operating system, the company said. These features allow owners of Symbian phones to do things like exchanging Wi-Fi-derived “location tags” which can be shared with GPS-based mapping programs, helping phone owners to navigate to one another’s positions. ...

Symbian Adds WiFi Positioning
dailywireless.org — ... , is today demonstrating Wi-Fi positioning on the latest version of Symbian OSTM, v9.5. Symbian, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, will support Skyhook’s Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) through Symbian’s LBS architecture, enabling fast and accurate location acquisition in urban and indoor environments. ...

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