Geofencing: Can texting save the brick-and-mortar retail industry? - The Week Magazine


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Geofencing: Can texting save the brick-and-mortar retail industry?
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Thanks to a new technology called geofencing, retailers can start texting you coupons when you walk by their stores. Photo: Mark Edward Atkinson/Tracey Lee/Blend Images/Corbis The smartphone has become the bane of the retail industry, ...

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Retailers try and geofence smartphone customers - HEXUS


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Retailers try and geofence smartphone customers
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To try and put the brakes on showrooming retailers want to geofence their customers when they enter or get near to the retail premises with their smartphones. The Wall Street Journal details how several US retailers ask customers to sign up for text ...

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Apple Makes Apple TV more Accessible to those with Disabilities Plus new Nike ... - Patently Apple

Apple Makes Apple TV more Accessible to those with Disabilities Plus new Nike ...
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Additionally, new Nike + iPod patents have surfaced today from both Apple and Nike that claim that they've made improvements to the system while one last entry today briefly touches on new location based technology relating to beacon-based Geofencing.

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Marketing: Get Mobile or Die Stuck: How to Evolve in Revolutionary Times – Part 2 - Business 2 Community


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Marketing: Get Mobile or Die Stuck: How to Evolve in Revolutionary Times – Part 2
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Geofence is a virtual perimeter — the “fence” around a certain geographical point, location, asset, or mobile device. Applications use this geographical virtual area definition to create events when a device enters, leaves, or is found or not found in ...

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Polaris Wireless Introduces Altus Mobile - MarketWatch (press release)

Polaris Wireless Introduces Altus Mobile
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... mobile location surveillance application, providing accurate mass location of all mobile devices operating on a cellular network, on-demand location, subscriber device tracking, and geo-fence capabilities to field agents on their mobile devices.

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Hyundai Launches All-New Blue Link® Mobile Application -- Industry Leading ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Hyundai Launches All-New Blue Link® Mobile Application -- Industry Leading ...
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Geofence - Enables monitoring vehicle movement in and out of pre-defined regions configured on the owner's website. When the vehicle enters or leaves a designated region, the customer is notified by email, text message or automated phone message.

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Apple issues fourth developer preview for Mountain Lion Server - Apple Insider

Apple issues fourth developer preview for Mountain Lion Server
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Apple's next-generation operating system is set to further blur the lines between iOS and OS X with features like tighter integration with iCloud and geofence location alerts, among many others. Mountain Lion is expected to be a tentpole topic at this ...

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