users can use the Android Market, which is Google’s online software store for Android devices. The “Market” which refers to an application program is preinstalled on Android devices and it allows Android users to download applications. A number of such applications are developed by third-party developers. The Android Market currently contains tens of thousands of applications, being freque
its users that is returned from Core Location. Core Location is an iPhone framework that computes the location of the iPhone via GPS, Cell Tower Triangulation, and WPS(Wi-Fi Positioning Service). Messages can be sent with or without scribbled image that users draw, including location information of the client. The client access the web server with its location information to get messages of given
usually gets customers’ information by web cookies, which gathers the information of internet users. By utilizing web cookies, the company can have records of what the individual customer is interested in and the shopping patterns of the unsuspecting web-surfing customer of Amazon.com. On the basis of this information, Amazon can support potential goods which customer might buy..
Foursquare is location –based online service that allowed users to “check in” to a location using an application on a smartphone.
Using GPS
Connects your devices and
web browser into a social
network
Users can view other users who
had ckecked in to the same venue
but were strangers
Users are able to see where their
friends are and what they’re doing
in real-tim
Location-Based Services in mobile setting.
1.2. Background of Location-Based Service
1.2.1 LBS Market Growth
With the increasing rate of Smartphone penetration, mobile information services using personal information is becoming progressively important. As global Smartphone penetration increases, 80% of Smartphone users are expected to use LBS (by 2013) and the global market for mobile LBS wil