... 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...

... and space) were inspired by this work. Another major problem of location‐based services is the global scope and its impacts on system performance. Narzt et al. (2007) suggest the use of groups for distributing the computational workload over different computers and a “direct addressing...

... 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...

... application with Facebook credentials. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Mobile social networking Location‐based services Social computing Mobile advertisement Social networks Computing Social networks have emerged as a major social phenomenon. Day‐by‐day, their number...