What services does Location Based Service offers....?

Location-based services offers many opportunities. For the mobile users, some examples of location-based service are:

• Requesting the nearest business or service
• Receiving alerts, such as warning of traffic jam
• Finding a buddy

For the carrier, location-based services provide value add by enabling services such as:

Resource tracking 

       Taxis, service people, rental equipment, doctors, fleet scheduling

Finding Someone or something

       Person by skill(doctor), navigation, weather, traffic, room schedule, stolen phone

Proximity-based notification(Push or pull)

       Targeted advertising, buddy list, common profile matching (dating), automatic airport check-in

Proximity-based actuation(Push or pull)

       Payment based upon proximity(EZ pass, toll watch)

        

Embedding Android in Eclipse.....

Requirements: Eclipse

Environment Setting: First adjust the proxy setting’s as follow Go to Windows tab in toolbar, and click on the Preferences Go to general and then go to network connections provide the proxy address as manual and adjust as per your proxy server connection settings.

Step by step process:

      1. Start the eclipse software, then in the toolbar of eclipse go to 
 

HELP---> INSTALL NEW SOFTWARE

Click on the "Add" then a new window opens with 2 text field

                  NAME:  Android

                  LOCATION: http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

      Then Select all the items and proceed as per directions on the screen till android is installed.  

         

           2. Then go to windows tab in toolbar of eclipse and click on the preference double click on the android then load the SDK location from the previously installed android SDK location.

Then an “Android SDK and AVD Manger” label appears if it does not appear then restart the eclipse. From this label the user can create a device as per his choice.

Installing Andoird.....

Requirements:  Java, Eclipse

            Step by Step process to set up android:

1. Download Andorid SDK
2. Extarct/ install SDK to some preferred location
3. Then double click/ enter the Extacted/installed SDK folder
4. There double click on “SDK Manager.exe”    
5. Then go to “Available Packages “tab
6. Install any preferred/ all packages
7. Wait till all the packages are installed

NOTE: If you are using proxy server then go to "Setting tab in "SDK MANAGER.EXE" and enter the proxy server details

Nokia and Microsoft enter strategic alliance on Windows Phone, Bing, Xbox Live and Office

It's happened. Former Microsoft exec and current Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has married his future and his past in the holy matrimony of a "strategic alliance." Windows Phone is becoming Nokia's "principal smartphone strategy," but there's a lot more to this hookup -- scope out the official press release just after the break. Microsoft's Bing and adCenter will provide search and ad services across Nokia devices, while Nokia will look to innovate "on top of the platform" with things like its traditional strength in imaging. Ovi Maps will be a core part of Microsoft's mapping services and will be integrated with Bing, while Nokia's content store will be integrated into (read: assimilated by) Microsoft's Marketplace. Xbox Live and Office will also, as is to be expected, feature on these brave new Microkia handsets. An open letter on Nokia's Conversations site, penned jointly by Stephen Elop and Steve Ballmer, sets out the foregoing details along with the following statement of intent:

"There are other mobile ecosystems. We will disrupt them. There will be challenges. We will overcome them. Success requires speed. We will be swift. Together, we see the opportunity, and we have the will, the resources and the drive to succeed."

What does Location based Service means......?

    Location- based services and advertising allow consumers to receive services and advertising based on their geographic location. For example, businesses can provide information about traffic, restaurants, retail stores,travel arrangements or Automated Teller Machines based on the consumers location at a particular moment in time, Such services can be provided in response to a consumers manual input of his or her location information into the handset or by using so-called "Auto- Location" technology to track the location of the consumer automatically.