Apple Quietly Launches Indoor Positioning App ‘Indoor Survey’
Apple has released an app for the iPhone that allows users to map the interior spaces of a building using Wi-Fi and iPhone's built-in sensors. The release date of the app is 27 October 2015, and it's version 1.0, so we are talking about a freshly released app targeting business owners as Apple prepares to...
iOS 8: Apple Uses M7 Processor and Motion Sensors for Precise Indoor Navigation
With iOS 8, Apple is taking a huge step ahead by showing developers how they can get precise indoor positioning data from the iDevice’s sensors. And since it is an experience that wouldn’t work without venues, it is inviting venues to sign up and help enable indoor positioning (via 9to5Mac). As part of the WWDC...
Indoor Positioning Startup Wifarer CEO Quits, Now Works for Apple
Philip Stanger, the CEO and co-founder of Wifarer, an indoor positioning startup which offers tools to help consumers navigate malls, museums and other venues, has quit the company to work for Apple, TechCrunch is reporting. Wifarer, which was founded in 2010 in Victoria, B.C., is now run by new CEO Lise Murphy, who is Philip’s wife and was previously designated as VP...