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Socket Communications Case Study: Context Information Services

Overview The senior partner and founder of Context Information Services, a London-based IT research and consulting firm, needs to travel a lot throughout the UK. To make travel time more efficient, he has assembled a cutting-edge solution to help him steer his way through unfamiliar places. Through the use of the Socket Bluetooth Card and other mobile devices, the client has combined GPS technology and wireless Internet access to create a real-time navigational system. Also attached to his Pocket PC is a Pharos GPS receiver.

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Publisher	Socket Communications	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Bluetooth, Windows CE

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