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Skyhook Expands Wi-Fi Positioning to Cell, GPS

Posted on June 30, 2008

Skyhook Wireless will combine information from Wi-Fi wardriving, GPS radios, and cell tower signals for better location: The pitch at Skyhook Wireless is that despite its accuracy, satellite-based GPS remains relatively expensive, that it's slow to get a fix when it powers up, and that it's not accurate enough in the middle of cities. Their XPS 2.0 system leverages GPS with the advantages of Skyhook's Wi-Fi signal database and algorithms along with cell-tower triangulation.Ted Morgan, the head of Skyhook, explained in an interview that while GPS is certainly the gold standard, and while it wor...

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