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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Software and Hardware Beacons

Galen Gruman developed a slideshow to illustrate the use of physical beacon devices for tracking user location.

An earlier usage of the term "beacon" is applied to images downloaded from (and tracked by) a Web server. Bruno Skvorc reviews software beacon technology , and Melissa Aparico demonstrates a consumer mail-tracking application which utilizes software tracking beacons.

-DD

 

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