... context-based energy saving strategy for mobile location-based services. Findings – The paper reveals the positive implications in terms of energy consumption measured in the course of exhaustive tests for iOS and Android devices and discusses accuracy issues and potential workarounds, especially...

... and effectiveness. Practical implications – The paper hopefully promotes and speeds up the development of LBA when providing the OPM with suitable application programming interfaces and conforming the OpenLS standard. Originality/value – This paper shows its originality towards location-based service...

... communication systems Systems software Privacy Mobile computing Location privacy Location‐based services Group messaging Textual messaging is one of the most popular applications on mobile phones [1] and still more widely used than the “mobile web” [2] . Potential reasons are a lack of cheap data...

... by humans or embedded into vehicles. A centralized approach, where few servers would collect position data and provide them to interested consumers, would hardly cope with the resource demand of the foreseen huge increase of users interested in location‐based services and with the flexibility needs...

... reception. Once this proximity detection mechanism is available, many other applications are possible and we describe the ones we have already built‐into the system. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Mobile social networking Location‐based services Social computing Mobile...