Thursday, July 16, 2015

Beacons Continue to Mature Now With Google

Beacons have had quite a year and now Google is attempting to leapfrog Apple in the arena with a new version of their offering.

http://adage.com/article/digital/google-rolls-version-beacon-technology/299496/

Here is a snippet from that piece:

Google is stepping up efforts against Apple's location technology with new tools to link smartphones to nearby objects.

The search giant on Tuesday introduced a new format called Eddystone that lets electronic beacons provide more specific locations and other information within applications, the company said in a blog post. The tools, which compete with Apple's iBeacon technology, will enable smartphone users at a museum, for example, to get more information on a painting they're looking at or to gain easy access to electronic bus tickets when they're near a bus stop.

"We're beginning to roll out a new set of features to help developers build apps using this technology," Google said in the blog.

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant

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