Location-based services seen in cars, too
More than 82 million subscribers to location-based services are expected by 2013, says research firm ABI Research.
Mobile, location-based social-networking sites will take off as consumer sign up for friend-finder applications, local search and geo-tagging, the firm said Thursday.
Even PC-based social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace will permit the sharing of real-time experiences. Growth will primarily be driven by the availability of GPS handsets, but also by mobile Internet devices running Intel’s low-power Atom chip.
Location-based services also could be available in cars building upon experimentation now underway in Japan.
