Entry Level Jobs With Skyhook Wireless
In my opinion one of the coolest features of the first generation iPhone was its ability to accurately give you your location despite its lacking a GPS chip. The technology is based on using Wi-Fi access points and cellular tower triangulation to determine your coordinates. Obviously a GPS chip is a better alternative (at least as long as you don't have a roof blocking your satellite signal), but there are plenty of applications where Wi-Fi location comes in pretty handy. That's why Boston based Skyhook Wireless is a growing company. They're behind the technology that provides location to non-GPS equipped iPhones (as the New York Times covered quite well), and they're also using their technology for geotagging, device recovery, social networking, and much more.
Article by Willy Franzen of One Day, One Internship and One Day, One Job
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