July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
14h 19m
English
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The Next Wave of Computing 77
design objectives can be fulfilled. Mobile security and privacy issues
are discussed in detail in Chapter 6.
2.7.3 Location-Awareness Mobile Computing
The freedom of mobility offered by mobile computing presents enor-
mous opportunities for innovative business services and applications.
One of the most promising opportunities is location-aware mobile
computing, which uses the mobile terminal or user’s geographic loca-
tion to provide value-added location-based services utilizing a wide
variety of wireless and wired technologies. For example, the world-
wide location-based services market is expected to rise to 3.6 billion
by the end of 2009, according to the research firm ABI.
The heart of location-aware mobile computing