In December, 2011, Grizzly Analytics released our first comprehensive report on indoor location positioning technology, predicting that indoor location technologies were going to revolutionize the mobile industry. In our updated report in May, 2012, we predicted that indoor location technologies were poised to reach market. Now, in March, 2013, we see how true these predictions have been. Indoor location technology is nearing its tipping point, with new announcements in mass-market and location-specific solutions coming out on a daily basis.

In this fully revised and updated 268-page report, Grizzly Analytics gives an up-to-date analysis and comprehensive overview of indoor location positioning R&D. Read about the research activity of all the major mobile companies – Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sony Ericsson, Motorola & others – the major chip and network makers - Cisco, Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroElectronics, CSR, Aruba & others - other major technology vendors, and also over fifty start-up companies that are actively bringing indoor location services to market.

This updated report also explains the newest trends in the industry. Why are companies integrating multiple methods of indoor positioning instead of focusing on one? In what way is Apple limiting indoor location technology on iPhones, and how are start-ups working around this? Which companies are moving to network-centric approaches?

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If you own or manage a commercial site of any sort, you probably have questions about indoor location technology. Can it work in my site? Can it open up new business opportunities? Can it make my business run smoother? Can it bring me new customers? Can it add to my bottom line? And how can I make it work for me?

Answers to these questions are critical for a wide range of industries: stores, shopping malls, hospitals, museums, airports, casinos, offices, exhibition centers, sports stadiums, warehouses, and more – all can benefit from indoor location services.

Grizzly Analytics, the leading technology analysis firm covering indoor location technology, is now making its expertise available to less-technical decision makers who need to understand this new area.

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GeoFencing technology enables an action to be taken when a device enters or leaves a specific geographical area. GeoFencing is emerging as a key technology enabler for a new generation of mobile applications, services and business models. While the word GeoFencing has not yet entered common usage, it has been researched for years by all the major mobile companies, and a wide range of GeoFencing applications are reaching market.

GeoFencing is poised to revolutionize smartphone applications and services. Applications become proactive, running automatically when nearing a relevant location, and targeting their services to the user and to the location.

In this 145-page report, Grizzly Analytics analyzes and reports all the ongoing research on GeoFencing, including technology research overcoming the hurdles listed above, and including all the applications and services above and much more. Read about the research activity of all the major mobile companies – Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm, EBay, IBM & others – and also 3rd-party applications and individual researchers with related patents.

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Significant concern has been expressed recently regarding Facebook’s apparent weakness in monetizing mobile usage. This concern is largely based on mobile users seeing and clicking on a fraction of the advertisements as computer-based users.

This report shows, however, that Facebook has invested heavily in new opportunities for monetizing mobile use. Some of these research areas are extensions of Facebook’s current business, such as location-based ads and promotions. Others will deepen Facebook’s use in the every-day lives of mobile users, including finding and communicating with friends. Others would reflect Facebook’s entry into totally new business areas, such as sales of songs, videos and other media. Others are even bigger departures from classical social networking, opening up new jobs for mobile users.

Taken more broadly, the predicted new mobile directions for Facebook outlined below will expand the scope of the social network services that the company offers mobile users.

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In June, 2011, Apple announced that Location-Based Reminders would be a new feature of iOS5 on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. Location-based reminders have been implemented previously by mobile apps, but until now were never released by a major industry company. Grizzly Analytics sees the Apple announcement as a tipping point that is likely to propel location-based reminders into the mass-market.

In its latest market and technology trend report, Location-Based Reminders: Initial Implementations & Future Advances, Grizzly Analytics reviews research underway at major mobile industry companies that addresses shortcomings in early implementations, surveys mobile apps already available, and identifies information being gathered in the local search and e-commerce markets that will facilitate more powerful location-based reminders.

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The major players - Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, RIM, Nokia, Palm, Motorola & others - are actively developing new location technologies that will revolutionize smartphone usage, including standard features such as mobile navigation, search and networking. When these applications come to market, consumers, mobile advertisers and enterprises will have significantly more power, literally in the palm of their hands.

In its latest market and technology trend report, Mobile Location-based Services, 2012-2015: From Standalone Apps to Integrated Features, Grizzly Analytics reviews the current R&D trends among the major companies, as well as note-worthy start-ups, analyzes the implications of these technologies and forecasts whose products are most likely to make it to market.

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In 2007 Nokia established a Research Center in Cambridge, U.K., to research NanoTechnology areas needed for future mobile devices. In 2010 Nokia released some demonstrations of research results, in areas such as flexible and stretchable circuits, thin and flexible batteries, and more. But very few technical details of their research have ever been discussed publically.

This report, Nokia NanoTechnology Research: Research Agenda, Results and Future Directions, steps through Nokia's NanoTechnology research agenda, exploring the research results as found in patent applications, research papers, demonstrations and other Nokia presentations and documents that we have unearthed. Our analysis goal is to speculate where Nokia is making significant progress and where their research may not be yet successful. Also, of course, we speculate based on our analysis when some of these technologies may make it to market.

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