Motive has launched Motive Beacon, a compact Bluetooth tracking device designed to help fleets and physical operations teams ...

Jake is a cybersecurity graduate with a knack for simplifying complex technical concepts into digestible nuggets of information. Approaching his one-year milestone of keeping you in the loop on the ...

The answer to getting improved navigation when passing through tunnels and other areas that restrict GPS and cellular connections is coming to Google Maps for Android. It is the Bluetooth beacons that ...

Google Maps is getting a lot of love lately, and in addition to support for 3D buildings and saving the parking location on Android Auto, the app has quietly received what I believe is the biggest ...

Bluetooth beacons, which can transmit offers to a nearby customer's smartphone and payment data to a merchant, have huge potential. But to get the most out of beacons, merchants have to place several ...

Mobile and cloud-based technology startup Mist Systems, located in Cupertino, Calif., has developed a solution that creates “virtual Bluetooth Low Energy (vBLE) beacons” by using software algorithms ...

Allrecipes, the operator of food-focused social-networking website Allrecipes.com, has boosted the rate of downloads and use of its Dinner Spinner app by 50 percent in northern Ohio, where it has ...

One of the most intriguing technologies of 2013 was Apple’s iBeacons protocol in iOS 7, for Bluetooth Low Energy-based transponders known as beacons. Two years later, beacons are of very high interest ...